AKPM Staff
World Eskimo-Indian Olympics: Day 2
Athletes at the World Eskimo-Indian Olympics competed in the stick pull today. In the men's division Darrel Shavings from Nunuvut Island took first place and Sarah Keller won the women's division. Mike Poulter made...
Alaska News Nightly: July 19, 2007
Senator Murkowski defends her controversial land deal on the Kenai River. Plus, a new study shows melting of the world's glaciers will have a bigger effect on sea level than previously thought. Those stories...
Proposal emerges to change gun laws in Alaska
Federal law provides a way to prevent potentially dangerous people from getting firearms -- such as the student who killed 32 people at Virginia Tech on April 16. 2007. But Alaska today is in...
Don Young teams with House Democrats to preserve Alaska Native education funding
U.S. House Democrats came to the aid of Congressman Don Young today when they defeated an attempt to slash funding for the Alaska Native Education Equity program. During debate on a 2008 Labor, Health...
UA and Sheldon Jackson considering academic partnership
The University of Alaska (UA) is offering to help students from Sheldon Jackson College, the century-old Sitka institution that's shutting down for a year. One proposed option would allow the displaced students to attend...
Port Graham considers fish and wood biomass options for power and heat
The village of Port Graham, on the Kenai Peninsula, is considering using biomass energy to generate electricity and heat. The University of North Dakota's Energy & Environmental Research Center recently completed a study...
Normally soggy Bering Land Bridge area burning through warm, dry summer
Heavy bouts of lightning and warm weather have combined to cause fires in the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve on the Seward Peninsula. National Park Service fire communication specialist Morgan Miller says it's...
Boat sale forces Kodiak schools to seek new fuel transport services
The sale of the small coastal freighter "Lady Nina" has complicated the Kodiak Island Borough School District's delivery of heating fuel to its village schools. It also has some village and tribal governments on...
World Eskimo-Indian Olympics: Day 1
Competition at the World Eskimo-Indian Olympics kicked off today -- with the toe kick and the kneel jump. The one-arm reach finalists will compete this evening. Earnest young Native athletes showed amazing strength, balance...
Alaska News Nightly: July 18, 2007
Tonight we look at an effort to tighten Alaska's gun laws to prevent potentially dangerous mentally ill people from buying firearms. Plus, Congressman Young defeats an effort to slash federal funding for programs designed...
Ted Stevens releases personal financial data amidst ethics questions
Senator Ted Stevens released official financial disclosure forms for himself and his wife today. Originally due out a month ago, Stevens got extensions so the Senate Ethics Committee could review the disclosures. The delay...
Governor Palin seeking analyst review of proposed profit-based oil tax
The Palin administration is searching for someone outside of state government to take a fresh look at the results of the state's new profit-based oil tax in preparation for a possible special legislative session...
Palin selects replacement for Alaska House representative Vic Kohring
Governor Palin announced today she's found someone to fill Vic Kohring's seat in the State House. She's appointing Wes Keller, who's currently chief of staff for Eagle River Representative Fred Dyson. Kohring announced last...
Ketchikan – Pennock – Gravina bridge backed by Borough
The Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly last night voted to back a less expensive Gravina bridge alternative. The selected option is expected to cost $290 million and would include two bridges, one from Ketchikan to...
Sitka’s performing arts space scaling back in wake of funding veto
Sitka's new High School auditorium and Performing Arts Center is nearing completion. But it won't get as close to being done as backers had hoped. That's because Governor Sarah Palin vetoed an $800,000 legislative...
Stevens and Torgerson fighting proposed cuts to Essential Air Service program
Senator Ted Stevens and Alaska Deputy Transportation Commissioner John Torgerson say Congress and the Bush Administration should not make any major changes to the Essential Air Service program, which subsidizes air travel in and...
Humpback whale in Southeast apparently killed by blunt impact
Fishery officials say a humpback whale found dead on the west side of Admiralty Island last week might have been killed in a collision with a ship. Marine mammal specialist Aleria Jensen says a...
Fairbanks 'worms' are actually gnat larvae
Entomologists have identified the strange worms spotted in rope-like groupings in the Fairbanks area last week. University of Alaska Museum of the North Curator of Insects and entomologist Derek Sykes says the worms...
World Eskimo-Indian Olympics (high) kicking off in Anchorage
The World Eskimo-Indian Olympics (WEIO) get underway tomorrow. The event is being held in Anchorage for the first time in the 46-year history of the games. WEIO activities officially start tomorrow at the Sullivan...
Alaska News Nightly: July 17, 2007
Lawmakers and Governor Palin are preparing for a possible special legislative session to take a new look at rewriting the state's new profit-based oil tax. Plus, the World Eskimo-Indian Olympics kicks off in Anchorage....