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Even with repeal bill dead, Murkowski still not a firm ‘yes’ or ‘no’
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski ,earlier this year. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North) The latest Senate effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act is dead. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday...
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With an Anchorage audience, look into whale’s death begins
Biologists and veterinarians work Tuesday to cut blubber off a young humpback whale that washed up on a popular beach in Anchorage. (Casey Grove/Alaska Public Media photo) The extraordinary sight of a...
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Painting an Oasis in prison
Inmates painted a room in the mental health housing unit at Spring Creek Correctional Center called the Oasis. It helps people calm down and regroup. (Photo courtesy of DOC.) The Department of...
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Ferry plan calls for smaller ships, public management
Crew members wrap up a safety drill on the deck of the ferry Malaspina during a sailing from Juneau to Haines Sept. 18, 2017. The ferry system faces changes to its fleet as part of a larger reform...
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2018 Alaska Teacher of the Year nominee: Karen Martin
Karen Martin is a 4th grade teacher at Tri-Valley School in Healy. She’s one of the finalists for the 2018 Alaska Teacher of the Year award. (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)...
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Enviros sound the alarm on ANWR
A pond on ANWR coastal plain. The fate of the plain, also called the 1002 area, has been in dispute for 40 years. (Photo: USFWS) Environmentalists are warning that the Republican plan to cut taxes...
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Sport fishing for king salmon to reopen in Southeast, except near Haines and...
The Chilkat River as seen from Mount Ripinsky in summer of 2017. (Photo by Emily Files, KHNS – Haines) Restrictions on king salmon sport fishing will be lifted soon for most of Southeast, except Haines...
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Commercial fishing for Southeast red king crab to open this fall after six years
The last commercial opening for red king crab in Southeast was 2011. (Photo by Alaska Department of Fish & Game) Southeast Alaska will open to commercial fishing for red king crab this fall for the...
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Japanese navy ports in Anchorage for “good-will” visit
Japanese naval destroyer anchored in Kachemak Bay near Homer. (Aaron Bolton, KBBI) Two Japanese naval destroyers are in Anchorage for a “good-will” port call. The Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force...
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Ask a Climatologist: How the jet stream affects Alaska
Banded cirrus clouds run perpendicular to the jet stream—a telltale feature photographed by an astronaut aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. (Photo courtesy of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center) The jet...
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Fish and Game looks deeper into declining Cook Inlet belugas
The population of beluga whales in Cook Inlet is a third of what it once was in 1970. (Photo courtesy of LGL Alaska Research Associates) The beluga whale population in Cook Inlet has been steadily...
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Federal court upholds contentious ‘roadless rule’ for national forests
A Tongass National Forest clearcut is shown in this 2014 aerial view. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska News) A federal court upheld a rule limiting road construction and logging on about 50 million...
View ArticleAnchorage police to take on Turnagain Arm traffic patrols
Anchorage Police Department officers plan to take over patrolling the Seward Highway along Turnagain Arm on October 1, with help from a state grant. The move comes after state budget cuts forced the...
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2018 Alaska Teacher of the Year nominee: Eric Rush
Eric Rush is a 3rd grade teacher at Ticasuk Brown Elementary School in Fairbanks. 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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An up-close look at an advanced cruise wastewater system
Adrian Daniels is the Zaandam’s environmental officer. He showed some Ketchikan residents the ship’s wastewater treatment system during a recent port stop. (KRBD photo by Leila Kheiry) On one of...
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New film explores how Arctic ecosystems are affected by climate change
UAF scientist Chien-Lu Ping works with students on his Arctic soils field tour in 2015. (Texas Tech Public Media photo) A new documentary film looks at how climate change is affecting Arctic...
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Kodiak art project encourages salmon discussion
Children write responses to fisheries-based questions. Kitty Farnham sits far right. (Photo by Kayla Desroches / KMXT) The first cohort of Alaska Salmon Fellows is wrapping up its pilot year with final...
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Japanese naval band drums for Anchorage middle-schoolers
Taiko drummers with the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force warming up for a concert at Central Middle School in Anchorage (Photo: Zachariah Hughes – Alaska Public Media) Thursday saw a...
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Petersburg’s tribe uses new machine to make compost in bulk
Brandon Thynes, Petersburg Indian Association’s Tribal Resource Director, and his assistant, Clifton Gudgel, stand next to the tribe’s new composting machine, which is housed in a portable building at...
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Next election may delay plan to fund state government
Sen. Kevin Meyer, R-Anchorage, talks with an aide and Sen. Mia Costello, R-Anchorage, before a Senate floor session in May 2016 in Juneau. Meyer blames Gov. Bill Walker for early candidate filings,...
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