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Sand Point loses entire police force
A police car sits unused in Sand Point. (Zoe Sobel/KUCB) Sand Point faces a problem with its police force: It doesn’t have one any more. Listen now In just three weeks, all its officers resigned. City...
View ArticleState looks to update Bicycle and Pedestrian plan
The Alaska Department of Transportation is working to update the state Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan. The Bike and Ped plan is a policy document that guides road design and education surrounding...
View ArticleMan killed with hatchet in Fairbanks bar
A Fairbanks man is dead following a hatchet attack at a local bar. Fairbanks Police report that 54-year-old Mark Allen Mitchell died Monday morning following the attack last night at Club Manchu....
View ArticleNumerous blazes battled near Ft. Yukon
Wildfire season is holding on in Alaska as warm dry weather persists later than normal. The Alaska Fire Service reports that water scooping planes and smoke jumpers corralled a new blaze north of Ft....
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Beluga whale harvested near Dillingham Sunday evening
(Avery Lill/KDLG) A beluga whale was harvested Sunday evening near Dillingham. It was the whole hunting party’s first time to take a beluga. Listen now The community showed up in force. Lines of cars...
View ArticleTeenage Gambell whaler under social media fire from noted environmentalist
This spring, a controversy erupted when an extreme environmentalist launched an online attack on a teenage whaler from St. Lawrence Island. Anchorage-based writer Julia O’Malley went to the community...
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Gray whale harvest on the Kuskokwim stirs up controversy
The whale killed in the Kuskokwim River on Thursday night is butchered and the meat and blubber distributed to people from up and down the river on Saturday, July 29, 2017. (Katie Basile/ KYUK) On...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Monday, July 31, 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 in Sitka...
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Revenue commissioner resigns to serve ministry
Department of Revenue Commissioner Randall Hoffbeck discusses a compromise budget package with reporters as Gov. Bill Walker listens in the cabinet room of the Capitol in Juneau in June. Hoffbeck...
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Cruise-ship tourism will expand next summer
A Holland America cruise ship sails up Juneau’s Gastineau Channel June 19, 2017. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska News) More tourists will come to Alaska next summer on cruise ships. Research by...
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State Sen. Gary Stevens files to run for lieutenant governor
Sen. Gary Stevens addresses a joint session of the Alaska Legislature during debate about confirmations of the governor’s appointees, April 17, 2014. (Photo by Skip Gray/Gavel Alaska) Longtime Kodiak...
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Ekwok substance use recovery program teaches subsistence skills to fight...
The Ekwok community arrives for the graduation ceremony Friday. (Avery Lill/ KDLG) Behind the Ekwok Lodge, the smells of soured salmon and pig muck hang in the air. Despite the odor, Ben, whose name...
View ArticleFeds look to relinquish mineral rich Interior lands to the state
A tract of potentially mineral rich land northeast of Fairbanks is recommended for transfer from federal to state hands. The 709-acre parcel near Fox and the Ft. Knox Gold Mine is being relinquished by...
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With cut after cut, state food safety inspections stretch years apart
The food safety permit for the Timberline Bar and Grill in Juneau hangs on its wall on Saturday. With fewer inspectors conducting fewer inspections, some restaurants go years between inspections....
View ArticleNo commercial fishing on Kuskokwim this year
For the second year in a row, there will be no commercial fishing on the Kuskokwim. Listen now Larry Lang, owner of the processing vessel Akutan, said the bank will not lend him the money needed to buy...
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Premera says ACA premiums to drop 22%
Photo of U.S. Capitol by Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media Finally, a bit of good news about Alaska’s health care marketplace: Premera is projecting premiums will decrease in 2018 by about 22 percent, for...
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Less mercury found in Beaufort Sea polar bears — that’s not necessarily a...
Polar Bears (Photo by Atwell Gerry, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) Warming in the southern Beaufort Sea is leading to some surprising biological changes for the region’s polar bears. But recent...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Aug. 1, 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 Premera says ACA...
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Transgender activist looks to connect trans men in the 49th state
Malcolm Ribot (Photo courtesy of Cathy Gillis) Malcolm Ribot is a transgender man from Illinois who’s been traveling around the U.S. for the past nine months helping trans men connect with one another....
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Ask a Climatologist: August is Alaska’s rainiest month
(Graphic courtesy of Brian Brettschneider) August is the wettest month in Alaska. But just how rainy is it in different parts of the state? We put that question to climatologist Brian Brettschneider....
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