Had the listing gone through, it could have affected fisheries and communities along the state’s sprawling southern coastline ...

SEATTLE — Five Washington fishermen are safe after a treacherous rescue operation in the Gulf of Alaska at the end of October, when their fishing vessel lost power as a storm was quickly approaching.

The agency decided against listing the fish — sometimes called Alaska king salmon — as imperiled, despite population declines ...

Killer whales, including calves and juveniles, travel in their family group in the Gulf of Alaska in June 2025. It’s well documented by now that the marine heatwave that hit the Pacific Ocean in 2014 ...

In a decision that was delayed by the prolonged federal government shutdown last fall, federal fishery regulators have increased this year’s allowable harvest of Pacific cod in the Gulf of Alaska. The ...

A NASA satellite captured a stunning mix of cloud streets, spiraling vortices, and a rare polar storm over southern Alaska as ...

NOAA researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Alaska BioMap have been working on identifying genetic stocks of ...

As winter turned to spring, the skies over the Gulf of Alaska displayed textbook examples of numerous cloud formations. Winter 2026 roared to an end in southern Alaska as parts of the coast saw ...

During the past four decades, the Southern Gulf Coast region—Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas—and the Gulf of Alaska have been directly impacted by large-scale oil spills of ...