Alaska News Nightly: Monday, Dec. 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 Bethel police say...
View ArticleAssembly vote could re-make Anchorage taxi industry
Big changes could be ahead for Anchorage’s taxi industry. During it’s meeting this Tuesday, the Assembly will vote on a measure that aims to eliminate the fixed number of cabs operating in the city,...
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Sitka bears still awake looking for trash
All of the bears at the Fortress of the Bear were orphaned as cubs, and would otherwise have been euthanized. (Photo by Rachel Waldholz, KCAW – Sitka) Bears continue to wander through neighborhoods and...
View ArticleMissing Fairbanks octogenarian found dead
A missing Fairbanks man has been found dead. Alaska State Troopers say the body of 89 year old Robert “Andy” O’Grady was discovered in his truck off the Elliot Highway north of Fairbanks, on Monday...
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Trump transition team adds Alaskan as tribal liaison
Jerry Ward, left, on election night 2016. Photo by Rachel Waldholz. An Alaskan has officially joined President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team. The Trump team has selected former state senator...
View ArticleAlaska Mental Heath Trust looks to Icy Cape sands for resources
The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority is advancing plans to mine Gulf of Alaska beach sands about 75 miles northwest of Yakutat. Listen Now The trust’s board allocated $2 million last month to...
View ArticleEric Jewkes to become new Fairbanks police chief
Fairbanks will get a new police chief next week. Last night the Fairbanks City Council unanimously endorsed Mayor Jim Matherly’s recommendation for Deputy Chief Eric Jewkes to become the city’s top...
View ArticleJuneau under winter storm warning
Juneau is under a winter storm warning and forecasters are expecting one of the city’s heaviest snowfalls in years. Listen Now Bob Tschantz, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, says the...
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Mysterious beak deformities may be caused by virus
Normally, beak deformities occur in less than 1 percent of wild birds. But in Alaska, researchers have found so-called “twisted beaks” in over 6 percent of black-capped chickadees and 17 percent of...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2016
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Plugging in could become cheaper for Juneau’s electric vehicle owners
Travis McCain plugs in his 2013 Nissan Leaf. (Photo by Elizabeth Jenkins, KTOO – Juneau) The price to plug in could become a little cheaper for electric vehicle owners in Juneau. That’s because the...
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State moves to update its petroleum spill guidelines
A crew works on a Gastineau Channel beach on Thursday to clean up heating oil spilled from a vandalized tank at the Prospector Hotel in 2014 in Juneau. (Photo by Matt Miller, KTOO – Juneau) Alaska’s...
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Mysterious sea lion decline persists in western Alaska
One month old Steller sea lion pups playing on Ulak Island. (Photo courtesy NOAA Fisheries) Alaska’s endangered Steller sea lion population continues its precipitous decline. The 2016 survey by the...
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Trump taps petroleum industry ally for top EPA job
Donald Trump file photo by Gage Skidmore/CC 2.0 President-elect Donald Trump has selected a friend of the oil and gas industry to be EPA administrator: Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt. Listen...
View ArticleGalena school board president ousted
Galena School Board President Kim Kopp has been recalled. 102 votes were cast in favor of recalling Kopp during Tuesday’s election, compared to 67 saying no to the recall. 26 questioned and absentee...
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How much oil is really in ANWR?
The Porcupine Caribou herd in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s coastal plain. (Photo courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) The coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ranks as one...
View ArticleUAF rape victim speaks out following investigation completion
The University of Alaska Fairbanks has completed its investigation of a campus rape case. Citing confidentiality rules, the university will not comment on the September 2016 case, but the victim is...
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Two missing after vessel sinks near Dutch Harbor
Priest Rock on a foggy day in July. (Laura Kraegel, KUCB – Unalaska) Updated: 11:33 a.m. Listen Now Two people are missing after a commercial fishing vessel sank near Unalaska Tuesday night, forcing...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Wednesday, Dec. 7, 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 Trump taps petrol...
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Money management at Mental Health Trust raises concerns
William Foster holds some of the ornaments he helped make at Bean’s Cafe as part of a project funded by the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority. (Hillman/Alaska Public Media) Congress set up the...
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