Alaska News Nightly: Friday, May 26, 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 This weekend, Ryan...
View ArticleTroopers identify 2 Juneau men in plane crash near Haines
Two plane crashes took the lives of four people in Alaska on Saturday. Listen now Alaska State Troopers say David Kunat, a 29-year-old Juneau pilot and an adult male passenger from California both died...
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Teacher turnover costs state’s school districts around $20M per year
Alaska school districts hire about 1,000 teachers each year, approximately 70 percent of which come from the Lower 48. (Graphic from the Alaska Superintendents Association) Alaska schools hire about...
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Alaska reflects on Memorial Day
A musician plays taps to conclude the Memorial Day observance at Evergreen Cemetery in 2016. (Photo by Matt Miller/KTOO) U.S. and Alaska flags were flying at half-staff today until noon in recognition...
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Quake prone cities on West Coast aim to improve countermeasures
Vulnerability assessments by utilities and emergency planners along the U.S. West Coast suggest it could be weeks or a month or more before water service gets restored after a major earthquake — not to...
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Petersburg school uses Minecraft video game in student led program
7th grade computer science students work on their Minecraft project. In the front row from (left-right): Sean Spigelmyre, Latham Johnson, and Evelyn Anderson. (Photo/Angela Denning) The video game...
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Digital restoration of The Drums Of Winter deepens colors, brings light to...
Cecelia Martz (left) and Len Kamerling (right) discuss the film The Drums of Winter after a screening of the digitally restored documentary at the Bethel Cultural Center on May 12, 2017. Cecelia Martz...
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Native groups install totem pole at Gastineau Elementary, lost cemetery
Volunteers lift the Raven totem pole at the totem pole raising in front of Gastineau Elementary School on Saturday. (Photo by Quinton Chandler/KTOO) The T’aaku Kwáan of Douglas Island raised a totem...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Monday, May 29, 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 Alaska reflects on...
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Is Anchorage America’s most diverse city? Depends on who you ask
(Graphic courtesy of Chad Farrell) Depending on where you go in Anchorage, you could be standing in some of the most ethnically diverse areas in the country. But, the level of Anchorage’s diversity and...
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Forum addresses Kodiak food systems
Facilitator Rachael Miller listens to ideas from the locals in the room and writes them down on the paper behind her. (Kayla Desroches / KMXT) How do locals get good food when the produce shipped up...
View ArticleOne victim in Portland hate speech stabbing has Juneau ties
One of the victims in Friday’s Portland hate speech stabbing had Juneau ties. Listen now Portland police say 23-year-old Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche of Southeast Portland and 53-year-old Ricky John...
View ArticleGroup trying to keep Fox Spring open faces impending fundraising deadline
A non-profit group trying to keep a spring-fed well north of Fairbanks open is facing an upcoming fund raising deadline. Friends of Fox Spring is taking donations to cover formerly state funded...
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AVCP calls for reinstating order giving tribes a voice in Northern Bering Sea...
The Executive Board and Administration of AVCP has issued a resolution to reinstate the Executive Order creating the Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area as originally passed.(NOAA) The...
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Bethel robotics team “The Moosekateers” goes to Nationals
The Bethel Robotics team, known as the Moosekateers, traveled nearly three thousand miles and enjoyed competing in the National Robotics Championship in San Diego, California. Pictured here is team...
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U.S. Missile Defense conducts successful anti-ICBM test
The Missile Defense Agency’s Flight Test 06b Ground-Based Interceptor launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on June 22, 2014. (Photo: Missile Defense Agency) On Tuesday, the U.S. Missile...
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Ask a Climatologist: Will May gloom bring summer doom?
A double rainbow forms over Waldron Lake Park in Anchorage on May 24th. (Photo by Brian Brettschneider) Does the gloomy May weather in Southcentral Alaska have you down? Climatologist Brian...
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With tug still underwater, Samson develops salvage plan
Until the tugboat is salvaged, SEAPRO is maintaining containment boom around the Powhatan and deflection boom off of Starrigavan Beach. (Photo provided by Samson Tug & Barge; May 19, 2017) A Sitka...
View ArticleCopper River fisherman found dead
A Copper River salmon fisherman has been found dead in the surf near the river’s Delta. Listen now Alaska State Troopers report that the body of 58 year old Clifford Johns, of Bothell, Washington, was...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Tuesday, May 30, 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 Governor’s office...
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