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Arizona senator on a pork hunt targets Kodiak
Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., on the U.S. Senate floor Tuesday. (Photo courtesy of the Office of Jeff Flake) Alaska’s congressional delegation cheered last year when the Missile Defense Agency awarded an...
View ArticleTrump’s VA pick came to Alaska in 2015
On Wednesday, president-elect Donald Trump announced his nominee for the next cabinet secretary to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs. Listen now Dr. David Shulkin currently serves as the...
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WIIN and NDAA make an Arctic deep draft port more likely
Nome’s small dock harbor. (Photo by Francesca Fenzi/ KNOM) Two new pieces of legislation are coming together to pave the way for a possibility of an Arctic deep draft port in the state. The Water...
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Before and after photos of Bogoslof Island show big changes after recent...
(Photo by Chris Waythomas, AVO-USGS) New photos show the dramatic effect of volcanic explosions on Bogoslof Island. The Eastern Aleutian island is home to a volcano that has been erupting since...
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Sitka’s Green Lake Dam back in service
After 84 days out of commission, the Green Lake Dam is up and running again. The dam works in tandem with the Blue Lake Dam to provide hydropower to Sitka. (Photo by Rebecca Danon/KCAW) On Jan. 7, the...
View ArticleAlaska delegation looks to build road from King Cove to Cold Bay
Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan introduced legislation that would authorize construction of the single lane, non-commercial, gravel road between King Cove and the all-weather airstrip in Cold...
View ArticleOnly homeless shelter in Kodiak fights through the cold
Francis Brother Shelter in Kodiak is the only shelter available to members of the homeless population, and therefore the only escape from the town’s recent nighttime drops in temperature. Listen now...
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Why this Alaska glacier is surging ahead of the others?
Two glaciers cascade off Denali. (Photo courtesy of the National Parks Service) Geologic changes typically move slow. But one glacier in Denali National Park and Preserve could be moving at a decidedly...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2017
Stories are posted on the APRN news page. You can subscribe to APRN’s newsfeeds via email, podcast and RSS. Follow us on Facebook at alaskapublic.org and on Twitter @aprn Listen now Arizona senator on...
View ArticleAnchorage homeless services coordinating to meet winter needs
Anchorage social service agencies are coordinating efforts to provide safe shelter for people experiencing homelessness, and strategies are already in place to deal with the upcoming extreme cold...
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Homer students to compete in state robotics championship
As part of the competition, the middle-schoolers program their Lego robot to perform a series of missions on a tabletop arena.(Photo courtesy of Marj Dunn) This winter, a group of middle schoolers at...
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Extreme cold to move across Alaska in coming week
Rick Thoman is climate science and services manager at the National Weather Service’s Fairbanks office. (Photo courtesy of ACCAP Alaskans aren’t too surprised when the weather is cold…in January….but...
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Alaska’s House majority weighs whether to hold open caucus meetings
The Alaska House of Representatives entrance in the Capitol in Juneau, Feb. 6, 2015. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North) Last year, when most Democrats were in the minority in the Alaska House of...
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‘What’s the plan?’ Senators say ACA replacement in the works
President Obama speaks about the Affordable Care Act. (File photo via NCPR) As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump repeatedly promised to “repeal Obamacare and replace it with something great.”...
View ArticleAPU skier places fourth as national cross country championship comes to close
The U.S. national cross country ski championships wrapped up in Utah today, with an abbreviated skate technique sprint competition. The race consisted of a single time trail over a 1.3-kilometer course...
View ArticleHIV cluster hits Bristol Bay village
Five cases of HIV in one Bristol Bay area village have been reported to health officials. The small outbreak, or cluster, began with one individual case reported in February of 2016. Two more were...
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Interior Energy Project reaches key milestone
IEP logo (Credit Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority) The Interior Gas Utility and Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority have approved a memorandum of understanding to...
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Bill would cut ferry costs, reinstate discharge rules
Extra ferry life rings lean against other spare parts at the Ketchikan Marine Engineering Facility at Ward Cove in 2014. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld, CoastAlaska News – Juneau) A Southeast lawmaker...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017
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Amid violence and breakdown, no clear intervention for Florida shooter
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) A...
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