SEC alleges inside trading in GCI sale
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint last Thursday alleging insider trading in the purchase of GCI by a Colorado-based company. The 13-page complaint laid out a timeline of rapid...
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Tenured teachers address Ketchikan School Board
Ketchikan High School (Photo from KRBD) While it wasn’t on the agenda, the Ketchikan School Board got a lesson last night about tenure, taught by five of the school district’s tenured teachers. Listen...
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House sends income tax bill to Senate
House Speaker Bryce Edgmon (D-Dillingham) speaks in favor of a tax on income to fund education. The House passed the bill, 22-17. (Photo by Andrew Kitchenman/KTOO/Alaska Public Media) The House passed...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Monday, April 17, 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 BP halts oil and...
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In a rare case of river piracy, climate change is the culprit
Scientists say they can pinpoint a day in May of 2016 when the water levels in the Slims River dramatically dropped. (Photo by Dan Shugar/University of Washington Tacoma) Scientists are pointing to...
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As session breaks deadline, Senate passes bill to allow cellphone fee
Sen. Mia Costello, R-Anchorage, during a Senate Labor & Commerce Committee meeting in March. She sponsored a bill that would allow regulators to charge a cellphone fee to support services for...
View ArticleAs first hunt on emperor geese begins, officials ask for conservative hunting
80 percent of the world’s Emperor Goose population breeds on a 10-mile-wide strip that runs from Kongiganak, up the coast of the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta, to Hooper Bay. This year, for the first time in...
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Unalaskans suspect Coast Guard crew of tagging WWII bunker
Dmitri Dane of Unalaska photographed the graffitied bunker in March. U.S. Coast Guard officials say they can’t confirm whether crew members of the cutter Morgenthau are responsible. (Photo courtesy...
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Preseason Yukon king salmon projections slightly up from last year
“Chinook salmon, Yukon Delta NWR.” Photo: Craig Springer, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Via Flickr Creative Commons. Last year, Yukon River subsistence fishermen got their first chance to target...
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Juneau Soccer Club defrauded in online scam
Juneau Soccer Club hosts a number of community soccer events including the coed camp, pictured here on June 26, 2015, which promotes the global sport. (File photo by Elizabeth Jenkins/KTOO) An online...
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Villages conduct massive scrap metal and hazardous waste removal
Baled cubes in Ouzinkie. (Courtesy of KANA) Living on an island can prove a major barrier to getting rid of large, unwanted objects like cars or fridges, especially for small communities like those in...
View ArticleFairbanks police bring in suspects for burglary, robbery, kidnapping and assault
Suspects involved in a Fairbanks burglary, robbery, kidnapping and assault are in custody. According to a city press release, the incident began early Monday morning when a business in the railroad...
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Slow Fairbanks snowmelt slows Canada Geese migration
Canada Goose on the Colville River Delta. (Photo by Ryan Askren, USGS.) Sunshine is abundant this time of year, but cooler temperatures this week have slowed the melting of a well above normal snowpack...
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F-22s intercept Russian bombers outside Alaska for first time since 2015
F-22 fighter jets taking off from JBER in June of 2015 morning as part of the Northern Edge exercise. (Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media) Military officials say they launched fighter jets on...
View ArticleUnnecessary sedation at center of dentist’s fraud charges
An Anchorage dentist and his office manager are facing charges of fraud over unnecessarily sedating patients and then charging Medicaid. Listen now The state’s Medicaid fraud unit on Monday filed a...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Tuesday, April 18, 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 F-22s intercept...
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They’re holding a town hall, with or without delegation
With the U.S. House and Senate on break, Alaskans alarmed by the Trump White House are pressuring the state’s Congressional delegation for a town hall meeting in the Anchorage area. Their push doesn’t...
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Walker invites sharply divided legislative leaders to talk
Alaska Gov. Bill Walker speaks at a Juneau Chamber Business Roundtable Luncheon in February. Walker invited legislative leaders to his house on Wednesday to discuss a long-term budget plan. (Photo by...
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DOC offers new way to treat opioid addictions
Sadie Douglas is an inmate at Hiland Correctional Center and is participating in the new Vivitrol treatment program. (Hillman/Alaska Public Media) The state’s Department of Corrections is trying a new...
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Statewide Trails Conference focuses on sustainable trails
The trail on North Douglas in Southeast Alaska. (Photo by Heather Bryant/KTOO) The Statewide Trails Conference opens Thursday in Anchorage and will focus on issues such as making trails sustainable and...
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