Glenn Merrill is unlikely to get a warm welcome in the usually friendly Alaska tourist town of Homer on Friday, unless sitting in the hot-seat qualifies. Who, you ask, is Glenn Merrill? He is the ...

Aspiring charter boat captains will have to find someone willing to sell them a permit before taking clients fishing for halibut from the central Gulf of Alaska to southeast Alaska as part of efforts ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - New federal rules that take effect in February to protect the halibut fishery in Alaska are expected to cut about a third of the halibut sport charters in Homer, Seward and Valdez, ...

Homer is known as the “Halibut Fishing Capital of the World.” But, charter operators aren’t just targeting the prized bottom fish these days. An ongoing study published in the scientific journal ...

My recent trip to Homer, Alaska, is slowly becoming an annual tradition. Last year, a group of my buddies and I took off for Alaska on quest for salmon. We never got the salmon, but instead found ...