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Ketchikan School Board OKs abuse/assault program policy
The Ketchikan School Board quickly approved a new policy Wednesday establishing programs to help reduce child abuse and sexual assault. Ketchikan High School (Photo from KRBD) There was no discussion...
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Why a Bahamas tanker is carrying North Slope crude
A foreign-owned tanker is expected to transport North Slope crude to Asia in the coming weeks. BP has shipped its oil overseas before, but it’s been decades since it was on a tanker built and managed...
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Post reporter booted from Pence event is an Alaskan
Washington Post reporter Jose DelReal grew up in Anchorage and graduated from a local high school in 2009 (Photo courtesy of Twitter, @jdelreal) A Washington Post reporter at the heart of a...
View ArticleFlood watch issued in Lower Koyukuk and Middle Yukon Valleys
Heavy rains in the Lower Koyukuk and Middle Yukon Valleys have prompted the National Weather Service to issue a flood watch beginning Friday, extending through Saturday evening. Listen now 1 to 2...
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Unextinguished campfire cause of McHugh Fire
The Department of Natural Resources have determined that an unextinguished campfire was the cause of the McHugh fire that has been raging in Chugach State Park near South Anchorage since July 16th....
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South Peninsula students study STEM subjects through ANSEP
Women and Alaska Natives are underrepresented in the STEM fields, but two south peninsula girls are breaking barriers before even leaving high school. They are learning about— science, technology,...
View ArticleHarry Brower Jr elected new North Slope Borough mayor
The North Slope Borough has a new mayor following a runoff election last week. Harry Brower Jr. was sworn Tuesday after absentee and questioned ballots were tallied and the results of the election were...
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New evidence of Denali dinosaurs
Dinosaur bones have been found in Denali National Park. The bone fragments were discovered this summer by a team of University of Alaska Fairbanks and National Park Service scientists. The researchers...
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State partially lifts ban on drug felons applying for food stamps
Ivory Mack at her desk at Bean’s Cafe. (Hillman/KSKA) People with drug felonies can now apply for food stamps in Alaska. With the signing of Senate Bill 91, the state’s criminal justice reform bill,...
View ArticleSearch continues for missing Tuluksak man
The search continues for a man who walked away from the village of Tuluksak 15 days ago. Listen now On Monday Tuluksak Search and Rescue spotted Walter Hawk, a 43-year-old man troopers describe as a...
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Scientists have increased alert level for Pavlof Volcano
Scientists have increased the alert level for Pavlof Volcano for the second time this month. On Thursday, the Alaska Peninsula volcano showed signs of low-level eruptive activity, prompting officials...
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Deer rescue operation occurs off Juneau’s Shelter Island
While passing the west side of Juneau’s Shelter Island Wednesday, an 18-passenger tour vessel saw more than whales. Listen now Shelter Island near Auke Bay. (Image courtesy Google Maps) Audrey Benson...
View ArticleWalker opts not to veto bill putting local school boards in charge of sex ed
A bill that puts local school boards in charge sex education will become a law, after Governor Bill Walker decided against vetoing it Thursday. House Bill 156 requires that school boards approve any...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Thursday, July 28, 2016
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 Walker opts not to...
View ArticleMan dead in apparent early-morning homicide in Anchorage
A man is dead in an apparent homicide early Friday morning on Anchorage’s east side. Anchorage police responded to a report of shots fired near Duben Avenue and Bolin Street just after 3 a.m. and found...
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New atlas maps Alaska’s surface
What’s in the dirt in Alaska? The colorful Polychrome Mountains emerge from the clouds on July 22, 2016, in Denali National Park. The mountains get their color from volcanic rock. The U.S. Geological...
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Warm water Blob survives as El Niño dies
It’s being called a marine heat wave. The combination of the strongest El Niño in recent history and the warm water anomaly known as the Blob generated the greatest amount of warm ocean water that has...
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49 Voices: Traci George of Eagle River
This week we caught up with Traci George at the Democratic National Convention. George lives in Eagle River and went to Philadelphia as a delegate for Bernie Sanders. Listen now Traci George of Eagle...
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AK: Sawmill Farm, Tongass farm country
The Tongass Rainforest isn’t what you’d picture as a candidate for farm country. The terrain is rugged, the soil unstable, and it rains over 100 inches a year. The vast majority of Sitkans get their...
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Alaska Ocean Acidification Network seeks to inform public of ocean acidity
Climate change may get all the attention, but it has a less-talked-about but no less troubling twin: ocean acidification. And a growing chorus of Alaskans, from shellfish growers to fishermen, are...
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