Militia Leader Appeal Draws Split Ruling
A federal appeals court has thrown out one of the convictions of former Fairbanks militia leader Schaeffer Cox. A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision filed Tuesday vacates Cox’s conviction of...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017
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View ArticleDetails of kidnapped Anchorage man’s beating emerge as suspects still sought
Three of four suspects indicted in a brutal beating earlier this month in East Anchorage are still on the loose, and police say their victim, dropped at a local hospital in a dog crate, almost died....
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Study says creating Alaska health care authority could save hundreds of...
Alaska’s state and local governments could save roughly $200 million dollars a year if the state launches a health care authority, according to a study. (Creative Commons photo illustration by 401(k)...
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St. Paul ramps up reindeer program to improve food security
Students at St. Paul’s reindeer camp butcher a female from the island’s herd. This summer, the tribal government organized the camp as part of its effort to develop a more robust reindeer management...
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49 Voices: Demry Mebane of Anchorage
Demry Mebane of Anchorage (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage) This week we’re hearing from Demry Mebane in Anchorage. Mebane moved up here four years ago from Texas and just...
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Tillerson proposes scrapping Arctic and climate envoys
United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson chaired the 10th Ministerial Meeting of the Arctic Council in Fairbanks on May 11, 2017. (Photo by Arctic Council Secretariat Linnea Nordström) Secretary...
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Walker lends support to Trump in lawsuit over Arctic drilling
The Beaufort Sea, one of the areas the Trump administration would like to re-open for oil drilling. Now Trump will have Alaska’s support in court. (Photo courtesy NOAA The state of Alaska is going to...
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AK: Petersburg family leads charge to save historic cabin in Tongass National...
Jacob Hammer looks out the window from the kitchen of his family’s historic cabin, located in the Petersburg Creek-Duncan Salt Chuck Wilderness.(Photo: Nora Saks, KFSK – Petersburg) 90 privately-owned...
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Gov. Walker says fourth special will be in October, focus on revenue
Gov. Bill Walker speaks at a press availability in Anchorage on July 17. On Thursday, he said he would call a fourth special session, beginning on Oct. 23. (Photo by Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media)...
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Hunters troll PETA in selfie campaign, but did it backfire?
David Nicolai posing with a caribou he took on a successful hunt in 2016, in PETA’s social media frame (Photo courtesy of David Nicolai). Download audio When People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017
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Building a future after prison through vocational education
Wesley Nicoll builds a planter as part of the vocational education program at Wildwood Correctional Center in July 2017. (Hillman/Alaska Public Media) In Alaska, two-thirds of people who leave prison...
View ArticleSyringe exchange struggles to keep up with demand
Download audio The state’s main syringe exchange can’t keep up with demand for clean needles among injection drug users. The Alaska AIDS Assistance Association, or Four A’s, collects used syringes in...
View ArticleState rejects Exxon’s plan for Pt. Thomson
Download audio The State of Alaska’s and ExxonMobil are still fighting over one of the largest gas fields on the North Slope. This week, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources rejected part of the...
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As the state’s gasline corporation hopes for investment interest, lawmakers...
Alaska Gasline Development Corporation President Keith Meyer, Alaska Gov. Bill Walker and Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Andy Mack discuss meetings with potential buyers of Alaska’s LNG...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Friday, September 1, 2017
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View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Monday, September 4, 2017
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The end of the summer salmon fishery
Salmon caught during the June 24, 2017 gillnet opening on the Kuskokwim. (Teresa Cotsirilos / KYUK Public Media) Some runs were outstanding, some were terrible. On the next Talk of Alaska, we’re...
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Skagway rocked by second landslide in under 2 weeks
This photo shows the rockslide area neighboring a Skagway cruise ship dock. (Courtesy Andrew Cremata) Early Tuesday morning, a rockslide crashed into Skagway’s largest cruise ship dock. It was the...
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