Man stabbed at Anchorage home dies of injuries
A man stabbed early Friday morning in East Anchorage has died. Anchorage police say 19-year-old Allen Raymond was stabbed at a home on Penland Parkway south of the Northway Mall. Just before 2 a.m.,...
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Surgeon General visits Palmer to discuss opioid epidemic
Drug addiction, long viewed as a moral failing, is now recognized as a chronic brain disease. US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy brought this message to the Alaska Wellness Summit in Palmer on Thursday....
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Sitka chef competes for national seafood crown
A Sitka chef has been chosen to compete in the 2016 Great American Seafood Cook-Off. On Saturday, Collette Nelson will battle chefs from across the country in front of a live TV audience in New...
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Shell returns to Unalaska
Shell is back in Unalaska. Dutch Harbor was a staging area for Shell’s unsuccessful search for oil in the Arctic Ocean last year. This week, three ships — the Aiviq, the Dino Chouest, and the Ross...
View ArticleBLM plan affects mining, subsistence and recreation
The Bureau of Land Management recently released a proposed plan for over 6 million acres of federal property in the eastern interior. Crafted over 8 years with user input, the management plan offers...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Friday, August 5, 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 Shell returns to...
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Bill Streever’s book on moving air
Wind impacts everything from seed distribution to powering light bulbs. In the fascinating, deep dive tradition of his first two best-selling books ‘Cold’ and ‘Heat’, author Bill Streever examines all...
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Federal health official praises Kenaitze programs
Alaska got a glowing report in a checkup from a top federal health care official. Though there are issues that need further treatment and support, communities showed a healthy dose of innovation in...
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Petersburg composting business reaches for grant to grow
A Petersburg project is one of the finalists in Sealaska’s Path to Prosperity contest. For the second year, Petersburg’s tribe is in the running for $40,000 to grow the business of making compost....
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Sitka Sound Science Center students complete skeletal rearticulation of sea lion
Students participating in Sitka Sound Science Center’s summer camp week, aptly named “Dem Bones,” recently finished assembling the skeleton of a California sea lion. The bones were cleaned and brought...
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Whale sculpture arrives in Juneau, fins to come Tuesday
Juneau’s 6-ton, 25-foot-tall whale statue has arrived. At least, the body has. Listen now #td_uid_1_57aa0f81bc85a .td-doubleSlider-2 .td-item1 { background:...
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New nonprofit seeks awareness and housing for mentally ill
No one knows the challenges of living with a mental disorder better than someone who has been diagnosed with one. That’s the argument the founder of a new nonprofit made to explain why his organization...
View ArticleEmmonak man in custody for alleged assault of three people
An Emmonak man is in custody after allegedly assaulting three people early Saturday morning. According to an Alaska State Trooper dispatch, 21-year-old Wyatt Redfox is accused of stabbing a 39-year-old...
View ArticleTeen dies after raft overturns in Anchorage’s Eagle River
A 14-year-old boy died Sunday in a rafting accident on Eagle River in Anchorage. Listen now Alaska State Troopers say a raft carrying the boy and his 30-year-old brother capsized in the river at about...
View ArticleEagle River trap-shooter earns bronze in Rio
Eagle River’s Corey Cogdell-Unrein took the bronze medal in women’s trapshooting competition in this year’s summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Listen now The award is not Cogdell-Unrein’s first bronze....
View Article13 injured in RV crash on Richardson Highway
More than a dozen people were injured when a recreational vehicle slammed into the back of a tour bus on the Richardson Highway on Sunday. According to Alaska State Troopers, the northbound bus was...
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Delta power outage cancels and delays thousands of flights
Delta Airlines said it’s investigating the cause of today’s power outage that knocked out its computer systems worldwide. Delta canceled more than 450 flights by early afternoon, and a flight tracking...
View ArticleWrangell sewer mainline breaks, allowing 20,000 gallons of raw sewage into...
A sewer mainline broke early Monday morning near Zimovia Highway, allowing about 20,000 gallons of raw sewage into Wrangell’s inner harbor. Listen now The break happened near the Zimovia Highway and...
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New report says 2015 was hottest year on record on Earth
Rising sea levels, changes in marine habitat, decreasing Arctic sea ice and retreating mountain glaciers over the last 50 years all signal that the planet has long surpassed a tipping point in a...
View Article‘And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind’ gives a natural history of wind
Alaskan author Bill Streever likes to tackle big topics in his writing. His best selling book Cold, covers everything from avalanches to expeditions into the world’s most frigid places. His next book,...
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