Lawsuit seeks to allow non-Alaska residents to gather signatures for state...
A lawsuit filed in federal court this week seeks to remove the residency requirement for people gathering signatures for state ballot initiatives. To get a statewide voter initiative on the ballot, the...
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The Mayor of Anchorage addresses concern over crime and safety
Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz at a press conference last July announcing a new DUI unit. (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage) Anchorage had a record number of homicides last year...
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The Alaska impact of ACA repeal bill? Depends where you look
Protestors at the U.S. Capitol in May. Photo by Liz Ruskin. Sen. John McCain has announced he will vote “no” on the Republicans’ latest health care repeal attempt That appears to sink the bill. But...
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Data breaches and online security
(Photo by Sarah Yu/KTOO) It’s become too common. Reports of a data breach that leaves thousands or millions of consumers vulnerable to identity theft, fraud or other types of scams. But what can you do...
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Cleanup indicates Valdez spill bigger than initially thought
Responders use boom to collect oil near the Valdez Marine Terminal on September 23, 2017. (Photo provided by Alyeska Pipeline Service Company) Cleanup efforts indicate that a crude spill at the Valdez...
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Unwanted Unalaska fishing nets find second life in Denmark
About 80 retired nets have been baled up and are on their way to a recycling program halfway around the world. (Photo by Berett Wilber/KUCB) There’s no easy way to get rid of old fishing nets in...
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How much could electric vehicles put the brakes on Alaska’s oil economy?
The Juneau electric vehicle fair was part of the National Drive Electric Week. (Photo by Elizabeth Jenkins/Alaska’s Energy Desk) Alaska’s economy is powered by oil. So are the vast majority of cars and...
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2018 Alaska Teacher of the Year nominee: Ben Walker
Ben Walker is a 7th grade science teacher at Romig Middle School in Anchorage. He’s one of the finalists for the 2018 Alaska Teacher of the Year Award. (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media –...
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Valdez spill response continues as Alyeska investigates cause
Response task forces of fishing vessels and self-propelled skimmers at the Valdez Marine Terminal on Sept. 23. (Photo courtesy Alyeska Pipeline Service Company) Alyeska Pipeline Service Company is...
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ACA repeal bill now peppered with Alaska money to draw Murkowski
Photo by Liz Ruskin Proponents of repealing the Affordable Care Act revealed yet another new bill Monday, with changes that appear designed to win the vote of Sen. Lisa Murkowski, one of three...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Monday, Sept. 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 ACA repeal bill now...
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Keynote speakers announced for Elders and Youth
(Dancers perform during the 2016 Elders and Youth conference in Fairbanks. Photo courtesy of the First Alaskans’ Institute) The First Alaskans Institute has announced the keynote speakers for the...
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Alaska National Guard members deploying to fight ISIS
An HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter from the 210th Rescue Squadron, Alaska Air National Guard, flies during training exercises in 2016. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Edward Eagerton) Dozens...
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Sailing To North Pole, explorers find more ice than expected
Pen Hadow, leader of Arctic Mission, and Erik de Jong, co-skipper, aboard “Bagheera.” (Photo: Gabe Colombo, KNOM, 2017) A team of explorers and scientists returned to Nome last week after attempting to...
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Tlingit poet and scholar Nora Marks Dauenhauer, 90, was culture bearer
Nora Dauenhauer won an Ecotrust Indigenous Leadership Award in 2011. (Creative Commons photo by Sam Beebe) Tlingit poet, scholar and culture bearer Nora Marks Dauenhauer has passed away at age 90. A...
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2018 Alaska Teacher of the Year nominee: Kent Fielding
Kent Fielding is a high school English and History teacher from the Skagway School District. He’s one of the finalists for the 2018 Alaska Teacher of the Year award. (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska...
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Pre-K in Igiugig is all in Yup’ik
Evelyn Yanez points to pictures and says the Yup’ik name of the animal, object or activity, during a Yup’ik immersion program for infants to 5-year-olds in the village of Igiugig. (Photo by Avery...
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Yup’ik and Gwich’in political activist Desa Jacobsson dies at age 69
Yup’ik and Gwich’in political activist Desa Jacobsson died at age 69 in Anchorage after a lifetime of raising awareness for Native issues, including sexual violence against Native women. (Image...
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Fairbanks Council OKs Stipend, anticipates further legal, financial fallout...
Fairbanks City Engineer Jackson Fox says the city has tested more than 160 wells around the city-operated Regional Fire Training Center, and in areas downgradient from the RFTC, for the presence of...
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