Fairbanks approves putting tax increase in hands of voters
On Monday night, the Fairbanks City Council approved an ordinance that puts a proposed property tax increase to public vote this fall. The hike is aimed at compensating for lost state revenue to due to...
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Afognak Island elk study looks at balancing logging with game management
Roosevelt elk, the type of elk found on Afognak Island. (Dan Dzurisin / Flickr) A study of elk and bears on an island in the Kodiak Archipelago will try to help balance game management and logging....
View ArticleTop VA official in Alaska talks privatization, staffing challenges
Amid this summer’s push by the Veterans Administration in Alaska to hold town hall meetings across the state, the state’s VA Healthcare Director, Dr. Timothy Ballard, was a guest on Alaska Public...
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Walker signs opioid addiction prevention bill
Governor Bill Walker on Tuesday signed into law House Bill 159, which aims to help prevent opioid addiction before it starts. (Casey Grove/Alaska Public Media) Governor Bill Walker on Tuesday signed...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Tuesday, July 25, 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 Murkowski bucks...
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Murkowski bucks party with health care vote
Disability rights advocates demonstrated against the health care reform at the U.S. Senate Tuesday. (Photo by Liz Ruskin) It was a dramatic vote in the U.S. Senate on whether to open debate on a...
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Following health care vote, Trump singles out Murkowski with critical tweet
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski speaks with reporters in Juneau in February. (File photo by Skip Gray/360 North) This afternoon, the US Senate voted against an amendment to partially repeal the Affordable...
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State’s cruise ship monitoring program shielded from budget cuts by tourists
A Celebrity Cruise Line ship sails into Juneau in 2012 with emissions coming out of its stack. Ed White with the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation monitors cruise ship emissions. (Ed...
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Ask a Climatologist: For summer in Alaska, 70 is the magic number
(Graphic courtesy of Brian Brettschneider) In other parts of the country, the temperature on a perfect summer day might land somewhere in the mid-80s. In most of Alaska though, the mid-70s are a more...
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Entomologist tracks the year in Alaska bugs
“Bumblebee @ wisteria lane” (Creative commons photo by Miroslav Fikar) Bugs of various shapes and sizes are part of life in Alaska, and it can be easy for them to escape notice. Listen now Anecdotally,...
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‘Forward-deployed’ Coast Guard helicopter crews help rescue 6 people in two...
A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk departs from the Alaska Army National Guard Hangar in Kotzebue to reconnoiter the area. The Coast has assigned two MH-60s from Air Station Kodiak to the hangar, which is...
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Late state budget delays fall-winter-spring ferry schedule
The ferry Malaspina is shown in drydock and the Columbia is tied up at the Ketchikan Shipyard in February 2012. Damage to the Columbia is delaying its return to service this fall and the Malaspina will...
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FBI investigating death of woman aboard Southeast cruise ship
The Emerald Princess is moored Wednesday, July 27, 2017, at the S. Franklin Street Dock in Juneau. (Photo by Tripp J Crouse/KTOO) The FBI is investigating the death of a 39-year-old Utah woman who died...
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Green sponge discovered in Southeast could treat some cancers
A green sponge found in the waters near Sitka could hold the key to curing pancreatic and ovarian cancer. (Photo courtesy NOAA Fisheries) A green sponge discovered in 2005 in Southeast Alaska waters...
View ArticleTransgender Air Force Staff Sergeant reacts to Trump’s declaration against...
This morning the president declared that transgender individuals will no longer be allowed to serve in the U.S. military, but thousands already do. That includes service members based in Alaska. Alaska...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Wednesday, July 26, 2017
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Lawmakers agree on capital budget funding for oil and gas tax credits,...
Kivalina, Alaska, in August 2009. Legislative leaders agreed to a capital budget that adds funding to build a new school for the community. (Creative Commons photo by Lt. Cmdr. Micheal McNeil/U.S....
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When the lights went out – Alaska’s great recession
Less than ten years after oil started flowing, Alaska’s economy cratered. The recession was quick and deep. Ten banks failed, real estate values plummeted and tens of thousands of people fled the...
View ArticleFeds charge Utah man with wife’s murder aboard cruise ship in Alaska
Federal authorities are charging a Utah man in the murder of his wife aboard a cruise ship in Southeast Alaska. Kenneth Ray Manzanares, 39, of Santa Clara, Utah, is charged in the death of his wife,...
View ArticleAircraft downed on north side of Lake Clark, recovery efforts underway
Recovery efforts are underway Thursday evening for what is believed to be a fatal aircraft accident in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve. Listen now Spokesperson Megan Richotte said that an NPS...
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