The University of Alaska Fairbanks Bristol Bay Campus offered interim director Wanda Wahl the role permanently, ending a years-long search. Wahl, who accepted, was born and raised in Dillingham.

The population of Bristol Bay and Alaska Peninsula makes up about one third of Alaska’s entire brown bear population, which the Alaska Department of Fish and Game estimates to be around 30,000.

President Obama began his tour of Western Alaska with a stop in Bristol Bay, landing in Dillingham just before noon. While Obama had sparkling clear weather for his tour around Seward yesterday ...

This week were heading to the hub community of Dillingham in Bristol Bay. Wanda Fulton and Stephanie McCumber live in Dillingham Alaska.Download Audio 300 Villages: Dillingham ...

Dillingham city and tribal leaders have asked Alaska’s governor to consider closing the $300 million Bristol Bay commercial salmon fishery, saying an influx of workers poses a grave risk to the ...

Bristol Bay implemented strict protocols at the insistence of its communities, and there was not one documented case of COVID-19 in the local population in Dillingham until the fall.

Proposed Alaska Mine Faces Fierce Opposition In Alaska's picturesque Bristol Bay region, developers are looking to build an enormous copper and gold mine. They promise the effort will be carried ...

Bristol Bay-area residents once held twice as many fishing permits as they do now. The shift has had a huge economic impact on these rural areas. ... DILLINGHAM, Alaska — In 1975, ...

Protesters gather in Dillingham, Alaska, for a rally against the Pebble Mine in 2007. ... Like Bristol Bay, southeast Alaska is home to all five species of Pacific salmon; ...

The first public hearing was in Dillingham, a small fishing hamlet of about 2,000 people situated where the Nushagak River meets Bristol Bay, about 150 miles as the crow flies from the Pebble claim.

Dillingham, Alaska, is home to just 2,300 people, many who believe their way of life is under threat. Ray Farmer / NBC News. ... Gold Mine Company to Pursue Permits in Bristol Bay, Alaska.

Since 2016, UAF students have trudged through mud and scrambled over slumping bluffs to gather data to help communities respond to a growing problem: coastal erosion.