AKPM Staff
AIX ordered to shut down
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has ordered Anchorage-based Alaska Industrial X-Ray (AIX) to cease its radiography operations. The company performs on-site structural x-rays with a machine housed in a vault to examine welds and other...
Perseverance Theater takes on new challenge
Juneau’s Perseverance Theater is premiering a musical by Tony Award-winning writers. The new show is "Yeast Nation." It may be the highest-profile work ever staged at Perseverance, but it comes at a challenging time...
Alaska News Nightly: October 23, 2007
Alaska Native leaders are in Washington, DC voicing their concerns about oil and gas development on the North Slope. Plus, a look at the road ahead for Juneau's pioneering Perseverance Theater. Those stories and...
Talk of Alaska: Oil Taxes
Members of the state Legislature have to make some touch decisions during their special session. Criticism is sure to greet whatever they do to change Alaska's oil and gas tax regime. If it were...
Linehan convicted; faces 20 to 99 years
A former stripper who remade her self as a doctor's wife was convicted of first-degree murder today in the decade-old death of her one-time fiance.
The Associated Press
Kohring jury selection underway
Day one of the federal corruption trial of former lawmaker Vic Kohring has come to an end.
David Shurtleff, APRN - Anchorage
Pebble Mine's CEO makes rounds in Alaska
The CEO of the new partner developing the Pebble Mine near Iliamna is learning her way around Alaska today. Cynthia Carroll heads Anglo-American PLC, a global mining company that is the 10th largest company...
Fighting rats with RATs
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has just published a comprehensive plan on keeping rats out of the state and limiting the damage rats do to the state's wildlife. Plans include the establishment...
Houston to resolve mayoral stalemate
Houston's city council meets in a special session this evening to determine once and for all who won the city's mayoral post.
Ellen Lockyer, APRN - Matanuska-Susitna Borough
Bill supports Native claims to Tongass land
A bill introduced by Congressman Don Young would allow Southeast Alaska's regional Native Corporation, Sealaska, to claim up to 85,000 acres of federal lands in the Tongass National Forest.
Melissa Marconi-Wentzel, KCAW - Sitka
Women no longer fish out of water
No one knows exactly how many women work in Alaska's commercial fishing industry, but it's safe to say the number is very small. The field may be growing though. And the women willing to...
Juneau repeats as state champs
This year's statewide large schools football championship went to the Juneau-Douglas Crimson Bears. The title game against the Palmer Moose ended on a score of Juneau 23, Palmer 13.
Rosemarie Alexander, KTOO - Juneau
Alaska News Nightly: October 22, 2007
Jury selection began today in the corruption trial of former Alaska lawmaker Vic Kohring. Plus, the state works to keep rats out of Alaska. Rat spills from passing ships can have a lasting impact...
Preview: Talk of Alaska — Tue, Oct 23
Coming up Tuesday, October 23 at 10:00 a.m. on Talk of Alaska...
Members of the state Legislature have to make some touch decisions during their special session. Criticism is sure to greet whatever they do...
AK: On the Bottom
This week, we go down to the bottom. We'll dive to some sunken ships in Southeast, check out the controversy at the bottom of an open-pit mine and meet a woman whose homemade hula...
New KDLG web site
APRN member station KDLG in Dillingham has a new web site!
We've updated our list of stations to include the link and we hope you'll drop in on KDLG.ORG very soon to see what's up...
Will special session end in a definitive oil tax vote?
Legislators are not yet in agreement over whether to end the special session on oil taxes by coming to some sort of definitive decision on the future of oil taxes in the state.
Dave Donaldson,...
Arctic energy meeting focused on climate, fossil fuels, geothermal
The Arctic Energy Summit's Technology conference just wrapped up in Anchorage yesterday. Part of the International Polar Year activities, the conference brought together representatives from 14 nations to share ideas about extractive and renewable...
Iceland's geothermal experience may translate to Alaska
Iceland’s president was in Alaska this week to share the story of how his country has harnessed the earth’s steam and water for power and heat. Olafur Ragnar Grimsson spoke about geothermal at the...
House working on revised mining reform legislation
Yesterday the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee started marking up legislation that would make big reforms in hard rock mining on federal lands. The bill is by West Virginia Democrat Nick Rahall, a longtime...