AKPM Staff
AMHS building causing friction
The Alaska Marine Highway headquarters building in Ketchikan needs major repairs. And that could get in the way of state plans to buy the structure from the Ketchikan Gateway Borough. Ferry officials say they...
Papa Pilgrim headed to prison
Robert Hale has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. Hale, who was also known as Papa Pilgrim, had plead no contest to incest, assault and rape, of one of his daughters. And testimonies...
Living successfully off the grid
As electricity prices rise and the true cost of fossil fuel usage becomes apparent, some people are choosing alternative energy sources. One Dillingham couple is choosing to forego electricity all together for now.
Anne Hillman,...
Hooper Bay works to protect tundra from vehicle damage
Four-wheelers and other modern vehicles have made access to Rural Alaska’s subsistence hunting grounds much easier than the old days, but that’s also placing greater stress on the land. The northwest village of Hooper...
Bear numbers on the rise in Hoonah
Alaska tour books claim Admiralty Island has more brown bears per square mile than any other place in the state. Municipal officials in Hoonah on neighboring Chichagoff Island are challenging that claim. They say...
Alaska News Nightly: November 28, 2007
Alaska birds are included on a national watch list; a new genetic link ties native peoples in North America and Siberia, and "Papa Pilgrim" is headed for prison. Those stories and more on tonight's...
Senator Lesil McGuire implicated in threats
Convicted former-lobbyist Bill Bobrick was sentenced this morning to five months in prison and five months of home confinement for his role in Alaska's ongoing corruption scandal. He's the man who funneled bribes to...
APEA stages "informational pickets"
The Alaska Public Employees Association state supervisory unit held what were called informational pickets today outside of state buildings across Alaska. More than 100 state supervisors gathered outside state offices in Juneau and Fairbanks...
WASCO sentence handed down
Jeremy Oliver was sentenced yesterday in Dillingham for crimes committed during the 2004 fishing season in Ekuk. Oliver and his company, WASCO, were charged with one count of trying to process, sell, or transport...
US Interior Department finds problems with alleged interference
The Interior Department announced today that it found problems with seven of eight Endangered Species Act designations that former Deputy Assistant Secretary Julie MacDonald is alleged to have interfered with.
Steve Heimel, APRN - Anchorage
National wildlife refuges an economic boon
The main purpose for national wildlife refuges is to conserve plant and animal species as well as natural landscapes and ecosystems. But a new U-S Fish and Wildlife Service report titled ‘Banking on Nature’...
War widows choose in vitro pregnancies after husbands die
A small number of Iraq War widows are choosing to get pregnant after their husbands have died, through in vitro fertilization. The Department of Veterans Affairs doesn’t keep official track, and only knows...
New public radio station planned for Fairbanks
Fairbanks may soon get another public radio station. The board members of Fairbanks Open Radio announced they sent in their application to the F-C-C. Jenn Peterson is the president of Fairbanks Open Radio. She...
Debating solutions to cruise-ship air pollution
Cruise ships that sail Alaska waters are part of a worldwide debate on maritime air pollution. The industry is trying out new equipment that removes smokestack emissions. But in-state critics and an international trade...
New website seeks to curb catalog waste
Catalogchoice.org is a new website designed to make the catalog business more green.
Ben Markus, KUAC - Fairbanks
Alaska News Nightly: November 27, 2007
Senator Lesil McGuire implicated in threats; a sentence is handed down in the WASCO case, and and some war widows are choosing to have in vitro pregnancies after their husbands die. Those stories and...
AK tops 200 episodes
Earlier this month APRN's national award-winning show, AK, crept over the 200 episode mark, and we couldn't be happier! First broadcast in the fall of 2003, AK has become a weekly Alaskan cultural touchstone...
Talk of Alaska: Film Festivals Break into the North
An international film festival starts November 30th in Anchorage. Competing for awards will be more than 150 films from all over the world. In spite of its remote location, a seven-year track record...
Government scientists evaluate extent of ice melt in Alaska
Climate change is melting a lot of ice in and around Alaska. But federal government scientists quantified some of that loss today at Washington, D-C forum sponsored by the American Meteorological Society.
Joel Southern, APRN...
ConocoPhillips backs away from North Slope upgrade
One of Alaska's largest oil producers is canceling a major construction project on the North Slope, and is blaming the state's new oil tax plan as the reason. ConocoPhillips says they will no longer...