The Center for Biological Diversity Alaska plans to sue the National Marine Fisheries Service for failing to list ringed and bearded seals as threatened;
Kuskokwim subsistence fishermen face another salmon fishing closure, the longest closure in that river’s management history;
Militia leader Schaeffer Cox, other militia members convicted on nine federal charges, including conspiracy;
Governor Parnell signs a bill sponsored by the late state House Representative Carl Gatto;
NOAA scientists scouting Alaska’s coasts for debris from last year’s Japanese tsunami;
Coast Guard in Valdez monitors vessel grounded in Prince William Sound near salmon hatchery.