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Alyssa London to showcase Tlingit design at Miss USA pageant
Miss Alaska USA Alyssa London with Tlingit artist Preston Singletary, who designed killer whale formline art for her pageant evening gown. (Photo courtesy of Alyssa London.) In less than two weeks,...
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Haines master carver unveils carving honoring veterans
Master carver Wayne Price carved two totem poles and a screen for the Soboleff McRae Veterans Village and Wellness Center in Haines. (Abbey Collins) Tlingit master carver Wayne Price is well-known for...
View ArticleFairbanks North Star Borough looks to address F-35 deployments on community
The Fairbanks North Star Borough is contracting for a plan to address community impacts of the Air Force’s deployment of F-35 fighter jets at Eielson Air Force Base. Listen now The borough assembly...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Tuesday, May 2, 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 State troopers...
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Alaska Native representatives offer support for income tax
Natasha Singh, seated at right, said Tanana Chiefs Conference supports an income tax. She spoke to the House Finance Committee, with her sister Grace Singh, left. (Photo by Andrew Kitchenman/KTOO and...
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Scientists see the future in the bellies of fish
University of Alaska Fairbanks students and volunteers pull in a seine net. (Photo courtesy of University of Alaska Fairbanks) Southeast Alaska is home to hundreds of glaciers and a lucrative fishing...
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Alaska Sea Grant’s funding secure for now
The bearded seal was released back into the wild at Nome’s west beach. (Photo by Gay Sheffield/University of Alaska Fairbanks Alaska Sea Grant) The White House wanted to cut Sea Grant’s funding for the...
View ArticleMat-Su ‘snake watch’ enters Day 2 with no sign of 100-pound python
Animal control officers in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough have entered Day two of “snake watch,” as the borough described an ongoing situation with an enormous pet python still at large in the Meadow...
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Divisions deepen as lawmakers tinker with Alaska’s oil tax credits
The sun rises on the North Slope between drill rigs, Nov. 6, 2012. (Creative Commons photo by Kevan Dee) Lawmakers in Juneau are still tinkering with the state’s oil tax credit system. Listen now...
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Ask a Climatologist: April flips the warm switch in Alaska
Potter Marsh and Turnagain Arm on April 29th, 2017. (Photo by Brian Brettschneider) After a cold winter, the month of April turned warmer than normal across the state. Alaska’s Energy Desk is checking...
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Effort to ban Valdez pot sales fails in Municipal Election
(Creative Commons photo by Brett Levin) It looks like Alaska’s first retail marijuana store isn’t going anywhere for a while. Ballot Proposition 1, which would have banned the sales and cultivation of...
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Enviros challenge legality of Trump’s Arctic order
Map of Obama Arctic withdrawal area. (Map: BOEM) As expected, environmental groups have filed a lawsuit over an order President Trump signed last week to reverse a ban on Arctic offshore oil and gas...
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ADN reporter allegedly slapped by legislator in a stairwell
The Alaska state capitol building in Juneau. (Public Domain photo) The Alaska Dispatch News is reporting one of its reporters was slapped by a state senator. Listen now According to an article put up...
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Rep. Eastman: Some women ‘glad’ to be pregnant for Medicaid-funded travel for...
Rep. David Eastman, R-Wasilla, during a House floor session, March 1, 2017. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North) State Rep. David Eastman said some Alaskans are glad to become pregnant, so that they can have...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Wednesday, May 3, 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 Rep. Eastman: Some...
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Conoco gives up stake in North Slope project seen as precursor to gas line
Construction on Exxon Mobil’s Point Thomson field in December 2015. Image courtesy of Exxon Mobil/MSI Communications ConocoPhillips has confirmed it’s giving up its small stake in the Point Thomson...
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Study asks why species bounced back – or didn’t – after Exxon Valdez
A sea otter in Resurrection Bay. (Photo by Heather Bryant) When the Exxon Valdez spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound in 1989, the immediate effects were pretty obvious....
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Rep. Young mum on health care bill; Murkowski knocks it
Rep. Don Young, center, in the U.S. Capitol in January. With him are his wife, Anne Young, and spokesman Matt Shuckerow The U.S. House plans to vote Thursday on a Republican bill to replace the...
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Juneau adult ed center outperforms national GED graduation rate
Joyanne Bloom teaches the What’s Up? class at The Learning Connection on on Tuesday, April 25, 2017. (Photo by Quinton Chandler/KTOO) It’s time for What’s Up? a social studies class that focuses on...
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Debate continues over role of Suboxone in primary care
Sublingual Suboxone(Buprenorphine/Naloxone 8mg/2mg) Tablets (Jr de Barbosa via Wikimedia Commons) Buprenorphine is one of the medications used to treat opioid addictions. A speaker at a recent medical...
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