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Alaska tourism rates at an all-time high last summer
(Graphic from the Alaska Travel Industry Association) 2016 was a record year for Alaska tourism. Listen now According to a report from the Alaska Tourism Industry Association, the state had 1,857,500...
View ArticleNew regulations to reduce fine particle pollution in Interior Alaska
The State of Alaska is implementing two new regulations aimed at reducing wintertime fine particulate pollution in the Fairbanks-North Pole area. Department of Environmental Conservation program...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Monday, May 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 With deadline...
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DJs discuss the sound of the Arctic at NxN festival
Musicians from several Arctic countries gather at the Anchorage Museum for a “DJ Discussion,” which happened in a gallery displaying works from Brian Adams’s “I Am Inuit” exhibit. The event was part of...
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Time pressure makes special session likely
The Alaska Capitol. (Photo by Heather Bryant/KTOO) The Alaska Legislature is scheduled to end its session Wednesday, under a deadline set by the Alaska Constitution. But that doesn’t mean its work is...
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In first townhall in Interior Alaska, crowd engages with Sullivan
U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, in his Washington, D.C. office. Photo: Liz Ruskin Senator Dan Sullivan said he’s looking forward to being briefed on the firing of FBI Chief James Comey this week. Sullivan said...
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Less sea ice means shorter hunting season for polar bears and scientists
Dr. Riley Wilson, veterinarian with the Alaska Zoo and the Pet Stop, examines a large polar bear. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service) Scientists travel into the Arctic every year to...
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Senate sends oil tax credit overhaul back to the House
Senate President Pete Kelly, R-Fairbanks, talks to reporters at a Senate Majority press availability, April 13, 2017. Sens. Peter Micciche, R- Soldotna and Anna Mackinnon, R-Anchorage, seated next to...
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Closure of Interior’s only dairy shows vulnerability of Alaska’s food security
The owners of the Northern Lights Dairy in Delta Junction plan to shut down the facility in the near future. (Northern Lights Dairy) The only commercial dairy in the Interior will soon shut down. The...
View ArticleAnchorage sees 14 homicide victims so far this year, faster rate than during...
14 people have been the victims of homicide in Alaska’s most-populous city so far in 2017. Listen now Anchorage reached that number with the alleged murder of a 92-year-old woman by her 91-year-old...
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Ask a Climatologist: Sizing up Alaska’s summer
(Graphic courtesy of NOAA) Summer in Alaska is full of endless daylight, a few mosquitoes and also some pretty amazing or terrible weather, depending on the year. So how are forecasters sizing up the...
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Sullivan discusses broad spectrum of topics with statewide listeners on Talk...
U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan. (Photo by Josh Edge/APRN) Republican Senator Dan Sullivan spoke on Talk of Alaska Tuesday morning about a broad range of topics, from national news stories in the headlines to...
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UA president discusses search for new individual campus’ leadership
University of Alaska Fairbanks (Creative Commons photo by Jimmy Emerson) A University of Alaska Anchorage provost will serve as interim UAA chancellor while a search is conducted to replace outgoing...
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Sullivan calls for White House ‘discipline’; Murkowski mulls special prosecutor
Photo of U.S. Capitol by Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media Both of Alaska’s U.S. senators said Tuesday they’re concerned by reports that President Trump shared classified intelligence with top Russian...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Tuesday, May 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 Sullivan calls for...
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After stern state letter and a loss, lone Anchorage pot club closes
The sign outside Pot Luck Events, located at 420 W. 3rd Avenue in downtown Anchorage (Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage) After a years-long legal skirmish with state officials,...
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Legislature approves all but one of Walker’s cabinet picks
Hollis French addresses a joint session of the Alaska Legislature in 2014. The former senator was approved for an Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission seat at a similar session Tuesday. (Photo by...
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Retired Alaska Supreme Court justice to receive Sandra Day O’Connor Award
Chief Justice Dana Fabe of the Alaska Supreme Court gives the State of the Judiciary Address to a joint session of the 29th Alaska Legislature, Feb. 11, 2015. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North) Former...
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At Bartlett High, a student meteorologist delivers the forecast
Jack Pellerin prepares his morning weather broadcast script (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage) For most high-schoolers, the first thing they hear at school every day is the Pledge...
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Kodiak prepares for infectious disease with ebola simulation
(Left to right) Nurse Steve, Nurse Lydia, and patient / actor Felicia Roberts during a simulated examination. (Kayla Desroches/KMXT) Every year on Kodiak Island, the common cold – known locally as the...
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