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49 Voices: Elissa Brown of Anchorage
This week we’re hearing from Elissa Brown in Anchorage. She moved to Alaska two years ago, and currently runs Wild Scoops, a handmade ice cream business that specializes in local ingredients. Listen...
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AK: The simple (subsistence) life
Locals around Bristol Bay know the importance of subsistence fishing and the broader subsistence lifestyle. KDLG’s Shaylon Cochran, having spent several years in Kenai, was somewhat familiar with what...
View ArticleRep. Reinbold reimburses state for per-diem payments earned on vacation
Representative Lora Reinbold is planning to reimburse the state for the nearly $1,000 dollars she received in per-diem payments while she was on a four-day vacation. Reinbold’s Republican primary...
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Stock turns in signatures to challenge Murkowski
Margaret Stock, left, turns in nominating signatures. Clerk Deborah Moody-Herrera accepted them. Next they’ll be sent to Juneau for verification. Photo: Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media U.S. Senate...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Aug. 12, 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 Stock turns in...
View ArticleBirchwood fatal plane crash
A small plane crash near the Birchwood airport has taken one life. The crash occurred Saturday afternoon, according to a Nixle alert sent out by the Anchorage Police Department shortly before 4 pm....
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Valley veggies highlight plan to boost health among low income Alaskans
Coop. Extension Service’s nutritional outreach cooking instructor Winona Benson. (photo by Ellen Lockyer, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage) “Tilth” is a word not easily defined. But an effort to bring...
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Since 2008, number of UAS students using disability services quintuple
The Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA, requires institutions receiving public money or providing a public service, including colleges, offer a level playing field to people who have disabilities....
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Weather, climate and the potential La Nina
There was a lot of concern about a big fire season this summer after a winter of very low snow fall and a dry spring. There were some burns but the season was not remarkable for fire, it was more of...
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Two people help preserve the history of Alaska’s canned seafood
There used to be hundreds of seafood canneries all along Alaska’s coastline. Two people are involved in documenting and preserving some of that rich history in order to share it with others....
View ArticleKenai Assembly hears invocation from Satanic Temple
The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly thought it put controversy about invocations to rest. But there seems to be no end in sight to debate about starting meetings with a prayer. The Aug. 9 Kenai...
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Crystal Serenity to arrive in Nome Sunday
The city of Nome is busy preparing for the arrival of the Crystal Serenity cruise ship on Sunday, August 21, with the first boat of passengers docking at 8 a.m. The Crystal Serenity will stopover in...
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Deacon’s music a bell-towering achievement in Sitka
Deacon Herman Madsen plays the bells atop St. Michael’s Cathedral. (Photo by Katherine Rose, KCAW – Sitka) The bells at St. Michael’s Orthodox Cathedral in Sitka are ringing again after a temporary...
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Proposed Naval training causes concern
Homer City Council passed a resolution on August 8, formally requesting changes to US Navy training exercises in the Gulf of Alaska. The proposed training area is 24 nautical miles from the Kenai...
View ArticleMan dies at Wildwood Correctional Complex
A man died in state custody on Sunday afternoon at the Wildwood Correctional Complex in Kenai. Michael Talcott, 57, was found unresponsive in his cell, according to Department of Corrections...
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Justice Sotomayor speaks at UAF
United States Associate Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Sunday. Sotomayor, the first Latina appointed the nation’s highest court, addressed a capacity...
View ArticleAlaska Miners Association to protest BLM plan for Eastern Interio
The Alaska Miners Association will protest a proposed Bureau of Land Management plan for the Eastern Interior. The recently released plan covering 6.5 million acres includes environmental protections...
View ArticleState drops appeal of tribal land into trust regulation
The state of Alaska is dropping its lawsuit over federal regulations that banned Alaska tribes from putting land into trust, calling it “dead-end litigation.” But that doesn’t mean the state sees...
View ArticleBernie looks beyond Bungalow to DC
Anchorage bar owner Bernie Souphanavong submitted thousands of signatures today to run for Congress. Souphanavong is running as an independent for Alaska’s only seat in the U.S. House of...
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Walker’s new oil and gas advisor wants to put some “grit” in the system
When Gov. Bill Walker announced the creation of a new cabinet position — a chief oil and gas adviser — he framed it as a way to improve his administration’s often rocky relationship with the oil and...
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