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Legislature looks to draw funds from Power Cost Equalization fund
The state House and Senate are trying to work out their differences over a bill that would draw money from the Power Cost Equalization Endowment Fund. Download Audio Senator Lyman Hoffman. Hoffman...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Wednesday Apr. 20, 2016
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 Download Audio Fatal Birchwood...
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How Murkowski crafted an energy bill that 80 senators have a stake in
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (File photo) The U.S. Senate is the final resting place for a lot of legislation, but this week it revived Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s energy modernization bill, which had been in a coma...
View Article‘Slow motion disaster’ threatens state’s key port
The Port of Anchorage is literally coming apart, threatening to upend the state's essential supply chain in what officials have called "a slow motion disaster." Every year, millions are spent just...
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Fatal Birchwood plane crash currently under investigation
An early morning plane crash near Anchorage has claimed four lives. the Cessna 172 accident is currently under investigation. Download Audio Shaun Williams of the NTSB at a press conference concerning...
View ArticlePreventing child neglect through social networks
Foster care in Alaska is the state’s last resort for helping kids who have been abused or neglected—and the number of kids in the system is at a record high. Nearly 3,000 kids are in out of home care....
View ArticleBirchwood crash victims include former NTSB investigator
The pilot of a plane that crashed on Wednesday, killing all four aboard, was an experienced airman with a long history with the FAA and the NTSB. George Kobelnyk, age 64, was flying the Cessna 172 when...
View ArticleCalista campaigning to reduce quorum requirements before descendants enroll
Calista Corporation is campaigning to reduce quorum requirements at its annual shareholder meetings to prevent invalidating future meeting votes and wasting corporation money when quorum isn’t met....
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Savoonga health aides earn Distinguished Providers Award
Healthcare in rural Alaska faces unique challenges. With few doctors and unpredictable weather, village clinics are often a community’s only local option for care. That’s the case in the St. Lawrence...
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Egegik incinerator burns down
Just as the community was preparing for the busy summer fishing season, Egegik’s incinerator burnt down last night. Download Audio The Egegik Incinerator (Photo courtesy of Don Strand, the city...
View ArticleEmmonak public safety official arrested for pointing gun at residents
A village public safety officer from Emmonak was arrested Wednesday for pointing a firearm at three residents of the community. Alaska State Troopers say they responded to the incident last Friday and...
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Lawmakers invite Walker to discuss budget, primarily Permanent Fund drawings
Lawmakers are considering some of the most wide-ranging changes in the history of Alaska finances this year. That’s why the leaders of the House Finance Committee invited Governor Bill Walker and top...
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Trans-Alaska Pipeline up and running after tank fire the previous day
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline is back in operation following a tank fire that shut it down for 9 hours yesterday. Alyeska Pipeline Service Company spokeswoman Michelle Egan said workers at Pump Station 5...
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ConocoPhillips to add wells at CD5 site in Alpine Field
Oil development is ramping up in the National Petroleum Reserve. ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc. says it’s adding wells and other infrastructure at its CD5 site in the Alpine Field. Download Audio The five...
View ArticleUAF involved in new project in climate change and wildfire studies
University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers will play a big role in 3 newly funded climate change and wildfire studies. Alaska Fire Science Consortium ecologist Randi Jandt said teams that include UAF...
View Article36-year-old man found dead in Anchorage jail
A 36-year-old inmate has been found dead at the Anchorage Correctional Complex. Download Audio Department of Corrections officials say in a release that Brian Pinkerton was found dead just before 7...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Thursday, Apr. 21, 2016
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 Download Audio 36-year-old man...
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Alaska plans new task force to address heroin, opioids
The state is convening a new task force to try and tackle the high rates of heroin use, prescription opioid abuse and related deaths in Alaska. Download Audio Graphic courtesy of CDC. The 20-member...
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49 Voices: Antonio Prescott of Wasilla
This week we’re hearing from Antonio Prescott and inmate at Mackenzie Correctional Farm outside Wasilla. Antonio manages the chicken house, which supplies eggs for Alaska’s correctional system....
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Commercial fishing to be opened for Stikine River kings
This year’s run of King salmon on the Stikine River is projected to be small but still large enough for limited commercial fishing near Petersburg. ADF&G Area Management Biologist, Troy Thynes,...
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