On the last day of 2012, the oil-drilling rig Kulluk ran aground on Sitkalidak Island near Kodiak. The weather was…
Most people don’t think about the safety of marine navigation in Cook Inlet. They didn’t before the Exxon Valdez, and…
Crude oil tankers and non crude fuel barges transit Cook Inlet all year round, and no one is prepared for…
On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez hit Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound — “fetched up,” in the words…
Truth is one of the first casualties of war, and in Alaska, truth was the first casualty of the Exxon…
BY MICHAEL ARMSTRONG STAFF WRITER Twenty-five years after the Exxon Valdez hit Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound on March…
By McKibben Jackinsky Staff writer As word spread that the belly of the Exxon Valdez, a tanker carrying Alaska oil…
Editor’s note: With 2014 marking the Homer News’ 50th anniversary, it’s the perfect time to look at Homer’s past. This…
They might not have been born when it happened, but ask the fifth- and sixth-grade students at Fireweed Academy about…
A two-day oil spill containment and cleanup drill at the Valdez Marine Terminal took place June 12-13. Spill response crews…
