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Mitch Seavey leads Iditarod to Nome – and says he’s not done yet
Mitch Seavey arrives at the Nome finish line, the Burled Arch. (Photo: David Dodman, KNOM) Iditarod musher Mitch Seavey won the 2017 race in record time Tuesday afternoon. The Seward musher’s team ran...
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Ekwok Natives Limited cuts ties with Nunamta Aulukestai
(Nunamta Aulukestai) Ekwok Natives Limited announced Friday that it is no longer intends to be a member of Nunamta Aulukestai, a non-profit association of 10 Bristol Bay village corporations. Ekwok...
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Warm air, sea-surface temperatures in February limited Arctic sea-ice growth
Arctic sea ice extent for February 2017 averaged 5.51 million square miles (14.28 million square kilometers), the lowest February extent in the 38-year satellite record. February 2017’s sea-ice extent...
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Ask a Climatologist: The sun is back and so is winter melt
The sun melts snowbanks into icicles in Anchorage on Wednesday, March 15, 2017. (Photo by Annie Feidt/Alaska’s Energy Desk) March has brought sun to much of the state. But not a lot of warm...
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ADF&G warns long winter is making moose irritable
(KDLG Photo) As this winter continues, longer and snowier than those in the recent past, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in a Monday press release warned moose are getting cantankerous. Neil...
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Top ten mushers finish in Nome
Nicolas Petit races toward Nome in the 2017 Iditarod. (Photo: Ben Matheson, KNOM) The top ten teams have arrived in Nome, filling out the upper ranks of the 2017 Iditarod Sled Dog Race. Listen now...
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Steller Watch lets anyone with internet access play wildlife biologist
Do you see the marked sea lion? Scientists are asking citizens to comb through photos like this to help understand the species decline. (Photo courtesy NOAA Fisheries, NMFS EPA/MMPA Permit #: 18528...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Wednesday, March 15, 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 Senate passes bill...
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Senate passes bill drawing from Permanent Fund
Sen. Anna MacKinnon, R-Anchorage, on the Senate Floor during debate about a bill that would draw money from the Permanent Fund. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North) The state Senate passed a bill Wednesday...
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State hopes environmental monitoring will clear up unknowns about Cook Inlet...
Location of a natural gas leak taking place from a pipeline owned by Hilcorp in Cook Inlet. (Image courtesy Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation/NASA) State regulators have given preliminary...
View ArticleIditapod: A deep dive into Mitch Seavey’s record-setting run
In Episode 16, we talk about the Iditarod’s top-20 and take a deep dive into the strategy behind Mitch Seavey’s record-breaking run. This is the last of our daily episodes, but we will release one more...
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Sea-to-table movement takes root with Alaska’s growing kelp industry
Matt Kern harvests wild bull kelp. (Photo courtesy of Matt Kern and Lia Heifetz.) In February of last year, Governor Walker signed an administrative order to help jumpstart mariculture, or sea farming,...
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Pen Air works to integrate Saab 2000s
Pen Air has introduced a new series of Saab 2000s into their fleet. They are the first airline to use these craft on commercial routes. (Photo: Chrissy Roes) Pen Air is facing criticism from residents...
View ArticleYukon Quest dog’s heart stopped
Final results of a necropsy performed on a dog that died during last month’s Yukon Quest Sled Dog Race are in. Yukon Quest head veterinarian Nina Hansen said veteran musher Yuka Honda’s dog Firefly had...
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Railway demolition unearths new discoveries from World War II
Unalaska’s marine railway stands half-demolished in December. The WWII structure has since been leveled, about 75 years after it was built.(Photo: Laura Kraegel/KUCB) About 75 years ago, the U.S. Navy...
View ArticleAlaska State Parks switches to new booking system
Transition to a new booking system will up the cost of renting popular Alaska State Parks public use cabins. Listen now Acting State Parks Director Matt Wedeking said a flat eight dollar reservation...
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Don’t panic over Trump’s budget, Murkowski says
President Donald Trump (Image from White House video) The White House today released an outline of President Trump’s first budget. As expected, the document calls for cutting government programs to...
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Alaska gets millions of dollars from Volkswagen settlement
Diesel car engines like this one in a 2012 Volkswagen Golf are among those that include software that circumvents EPA emissions standards for certain air pollutants. (Alaska’s Energy Desk photo) The...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Thursday, March 16, 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 Don’t panic over...
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Alaska’s chief medical officer on opioid battle
Naloxone HCl preparation, pre-filled Luer-Jet package for intravenous administration. (Creative Commons photo by Intropin) The state senate today (March 16) passed a bill that leaves in place an order...
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