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Alaska suicide prevention
Yes, suicide rates appear to have gone up in 2015, but there are solutions. We’ll talk to researchers who have been working with communities in the YK Delta for 20 years developing prevention programs...
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Whale freed from anchor line in Ketchican
A group of Ketchikan good Samaritans banded together last week to help a humpback whale that had become tangled in a barge anchor cable off Prince of Wales Island. Oscar Hopps of Alaska Commercial...
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Hold These Truth tells story of WWII, presents lessons for today
Greg Watanabe plays Gordon Hirabayashi in Perseverance Theater’s production of Hold These Truths. (Photo by Akiko Nishijima Rotch) Hold These Truths is a one-person show that tells the story of Gordon...
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How Alaska had this Trump nominee shaking
Wilbur Ross, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Commerce secretary, meets with U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan. Photo: Sen. Sullivan’s office. President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Commerce...
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FBI and police address Fort Lauderdale shooter’s ties to Alaska
FBI Special Agent Marlon Ritzman addresses reporters at a press conference at Anchorage Police Department headquarters on January 7th, 2016 (Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: January 9, 2017
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Insurance for law enforcement and firefighters’ survivors among early bills
The funeral procession for slain police officers Matt Tokuoka and Tony Wallace moves through downtown Hoonah in 2010. (Photo by Casey Kelly/KTOO) Lawmakers couldn’t agree last year whether to...
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Job losses in nearly every sector expected for 2017
Like most other sectors of the economy, state jobs are in decline. Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development economists predict a shrinking economy in 2017 as the state struggles to recover...
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Murkowski says repeal, replace should coincide
Sen. Lisa Murkowski wants to slow the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Photo: Liz Ruskin, APRN. President-elect Donald Trump today leaned on Congress to quickly get rid of President Obama’s signature...
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After New Year’s storm, Savoonga asks state for disaster relief
Mayor Myron Kingeekuk and a Red Cross employee survey storm-damaged homes in the community. (Photo by Davis Hovey, KNOM) In the final days of 2016, a Bering sea storm battered St. Lawrence Island,...
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Fukushima radiation yet, and unlikely, to affect Alaska seafood
Boats leave Dillingham to fish the Nushagak District in June 2016. (Photo by Cate Gomez, KDLG – Dillingham) Alaskan seafood remains free of detectable Fukushima-related radiation. That’s according to...
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Experts say 2016 smashed previous records for Alaska’s hottest year on record
2016 was the warmest year on record statewide and in several communities, including Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow) and Kotzebue. The warmth contributed to several other records around the state, including...
View ArticleDOC inmate dies by suicide
An inmate at Highland Correctional Center died by suicide Tuesday. Twenty-two-year-old Nina Amigale Alexie was found unresponsive in her cell during a routine check last Friday. She was taken to Alaska...
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Two actors adapt the Narnia world to the Kodiak stage
Matt Freeman and Stephanie Ann Foster. (Photo by Devin Cooper) The world of Narnia has come to the Kodiak stage. Listen now San-Francisco based actor Stephanie Ann Foster adapted one of the novels in...
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Anvik tribal courts given more jurisdiction in lower level cases
Gavel stock image courtesy of Getty Images The state of Alaska and the Anvik Tribe have signed an historic justice agreement. The government to government pact provides a template for tribal courts to...
View ArticleFour mariners rescued from Gulf of Alaska
Four mariners were rescued from their stricken fishing vessel in the Gulf of Alaska on Friday, Jan. 6 — in a mission coordinated by Air Station Kodiak, and executed by Air Station Sitka. Listen now The...
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School districts cope with flat state funding as costs continue to rise
Image from the Anchorage School District Education funding in Gov. Bill Walker’s proposed budget remains relatively flat for the upcoming fiscal year. Listen now And even though big cuts to education...
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Tanker truck spills 4,000 gallons of diesel fuel after crash near Paxson
Responders deployed absorbent material and containment equipment in an attempt to remove the spilled diesel fuel and prevent it from spreading further.(Photo courtesy of Alaska Department of...
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Red Cross of Alaska opens 23 cases in Savoonga after winter storm
Savoonga. (Photo by Anna Rose MacArthur, KNOM – Nome) 23 cases have been opened by the American Red Cross of Alaska after their visit to the community of Savoonga last week. In a release Monday,...
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