Casey Grove, Alaska Public Media - Anchorage
Casey Grove is host of Alaska News Nightly, a general assignment reporter and an editor at Alaska Public Media. Reach him at cgrove@alaskapublic.org. Read more about Casey here.
Anchorage police increase patrols in University Lake area after late-night shooting
Members of the department's SWAT team searched the park and nearby trails overnight Monday, but no arrests have been made.
Alaska News Nightly: Friday, November 22, 2024
Alaska's U.S. senators differed on confirming judges recently. And scientists look at how a beached whale in Anchorage lived and died.
Alaska DOC ‘negligent’ in trial over jailed woman’s suicide attempt, but jury awards family $0
Gabby Chipps had been arrested and jailed for several weeks when she tried to take her own life by hanging in an isolation cell.
Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, November 21, 2024
Alaska's State House will be majority female for the first time. Plus an 8th grader in Anchorage wins big at the first national civics bee.
Ex-Alaska prosecutor who blew whistle on Kindred settles over retaliation
The woman had reported Joshua Kindred’s sexual misconduct, leading to an investigation and the judge’s resignation.
Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Anchorage police release a review of officer-involved shootings. Plus, Yukon Quest mushers could win prizes, just for signing up.
Anchorage police shootings review calls for better nonlethal tools, de-escalation and officer supervision
Anchorage Police Chief Sean Case says the review of 45 police shootings is informing changes to policies and officer training.
Former Alaska tribal health care executive quietly resolves criminal case
Kevin Gottlieb and two other dentists agreed to plead no contest to a misdemeanor count of medical assistance fraud.
Alaska volcanologists continue to track unrest at Mount Spurr
That's after seismometers picked up an increased number of small earthquakes at the volcano and GPS sensors showed it was swelling up.
Alaska elections officials hope to avoid problems with rural voting, as seen in primary
Kaktovik, on an island in the Arctic Ocean, was one of two Alaska communities whose polling places didn't open for the primary.
Alaska News Nightly: Monday, November 4, 2024
The buzz around the election has more Alaskans voting early and in-person than ever. And elections officials hope to avoid problems getting village polling locations open.
Anchorage sues woman charged with neglecting horses, to recoup cost of their care
The horses were found to be underweight and had been kept in an enclosure filled with as much as two feet of feces, the lawsuit says.
Denali’s Ruth Gorge could be deepest in North America (if it weren’t filled with ice)
Glaciologist Martin Truffer says knowing the gorge's depth could help our understanding of how much ice is in other mountain glaciers.
Could Alaska be pivotal in a presidential victory? Not likely, but a poll has politicos talking
Political types say it's unlikely, but not impossible, for Alaska's three electoral college votes to be a factor in the presidential election.
Anchorage prosecutor shortage leads to hundreds of criminal cases dismissed
City officials are working to hire more prosecutors, and state prosecutors were said to be stepping in to help.
Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, October 10, 2024
As tastes change in Japan, the lucrative Alaska herring market is disappearing. Plus, the Alaska Zoo gets a new addition: an Amur tiger.
Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, October 9, 2024
New data shows Alaska donors are more likely to back moderate legislative candidates. And a Juneau hunter survives a brown bear attack.
Alaska’s winter off to slow start with late freeze-up and above normal temperatures
Take Fairbanks, for example, which had its latest freeze-up on record, in about 125 years of record keeping.
Alaska can expect very different approaches on resource projects, depending on the president
The Anchorage Daily News took a look at how various projects might be affected if either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris is elected president.
Alaska judge’s sexualized relationship with prosecutor leads to new trial for cyberstalking defendant
Questions remain around whether former Judge Joshua Kindred’s inappropriate relationships with prosecutors affected his impartiality.