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.
LISTEN: A COVID-19 vaccine is on the horizon, but Alaska faces unique challenges
There will be challenges with getting a COVID-19 vaccine to people, especially in rural areas like those in Alaska.
LISTEN: Featuring Alaskan, new doc puts single moms on the road to finding fulfilling careers
It's called "Roadtrip Nation: A Single Mom's Story," and it features Wasilla resident Maliaq Kairaiuak traveling with her fellow moms, interviewing other women to highlight the different paths they took to find fulfilling careers.
Wasilla woman’s lawsuit says she was fired after asking to telework amid COVID-19
Kimberly Thacker claims in her lawsuit against Quest Diagnostics that the company violated the Family Medical Leave Act when it refused her requests to telework and then terminated her over the ongoing dispute in March.
LISTEN: Alex Trebek visited Alaska because he loved this animal. (What is a musk ox?)
Those mourning the "Jeopardy!" host's passing include current and former staff at the Musk Ox Farm in Palmer, which Trebek visited and donated to for more than three decades.
LISTEN: Alaska’s first Zoom trial of pandemic ends in guilty verdicts over 2001 rape
Listen to a conversation with ADN/ProPublica's Kyle Hopkins, who covered the state's first felony Zoom trial, which found Carmen Perzechino guilty of kidnapping and rape, 19 years after he attacked a woman in his van along the Sterling Highway in 2001.
With thousands of votes still uncounted, Alaska’s initial results show many Republicans ahead
The state’s Division of Elections updated results a little before 1 a.m. Wednesday, showing a total of about 157,0000 votes cast statewide. More than 120,000 early absentee votes remain to be counted in a week, starting on Nov. 10.
Expecting higher pandemic traffic, hundreds of Alaskans ask for better Turnagain Pass plowing
More than 1,600 Alaskans are asking Governor Mike Dunleavy to restore money for snow plowing in Turnagain Pass, which they say is needed more than ever during the ongoing pandemic.
LISTEN: Here’s how it feels to go to the most remote place in Alaska
Writer Sarah Gilman went to St. Matthew last year on the research vessel Tiĝlax̂, and her piece, "The Island That Humans Can't Conquer" appeared recently in Hakai Magazine.
Anchorage police officer charged with violating man’s civil rights
Cornelius Pettus, 33, was already facing misdemeanor assault charges and felony charges of records tampering in state court.
Cleared of quarantine charges, Anchorage man dies after being shot at Anchorage Hotel
Duane Fields got out of prison in early May, and he appeared in news stories a couple weeks later when federal prosecutors charged him with ignoring a mandate to quarantine in Alaska upon his release from a California prison, Terminal Island, the site of one of the country’s worst outbreaks of COVID-19 at a prison. They ultimately dropped the charges.
Campaign to unseat Alaska Supreme Court justice gets $10K donation from Outside
A group of conservative and religious leaders is asking Alaskans to vote “no” on retaining Alaska Supreme Court Justice Susan Carney. Campaign finance donations show that
Police fatally shot Eagle River man involved in domestic violence incident
An Eagle River man is dead after an hours-long standoff with police Thursday morning that ended when he left his home holding a shotgun and five officers fired at him, according to the Anchorage Police Department.
LISTEN: Congolese refugees arrival in Alaska featured in documentary on kindness
"The Antidote" shows members of a Congolese immigrant family -- including a 104-year-old grandma -- arriving on the icy streets of mid-winter Anchorage, with the help of Catholic Social Services' Refugee Assistance program, after 17 years in a Rwandan refugee camp.
LISTEN: ‘The Storyteller’ resurrects Alaska Native stories for a modern audience
In an effort to bring traditional Alaska Native stories to a modern audience, Koahnic Broadcast Corp and Rising Indigenous Voices Radio have been putting previously recorded oral culture stories and folk tales to animation.
LISTEN: How a TV interview led to Anchorage mayor’s resignation
Many questions remain unanswered, but reporting by the Anchorage Daily News has pinpointed an interview Friday as the trigger point for what exploded into a full-blown scandal.
Ask a climatologist: Look for snowflakes soon
Climate researcher Brian Brettschneider with the National Weather Service is back for our Ask A Climatologist segment, and he says Fairbanks is getting a little behind schedule, while Anchorage is just approaching the average date for its first measurable snowfall.
LISTEN: Iñupiat Ada Blackjack’s story of survival 100 years ago captured in short film
An Alaska filmmaker celebrated Indigenous Peoples' Day on Monday by releasing a short film that tells the story of Ada Blackjack, an Iñupiat woman who survived two years on an uninhabited island, alone in the Arctic, about a hundred years ago.
Alaska News Nightly: Monday, October 12, 2020
High COVID-19 case counts over the weekend renew worries about Alaska's hospital capacity. And a heated Senate fisheries debate between Dan Sullivan and Al Gross in Kodiak. Plus, an Alaska Native hero and her story of survival, alone on an island in the Arctic, a hundred years ago.
LISTEN: Bear spray can blast bruins despite wind, cold and age, study says
The research is published in the Journal of Wildlife Management and shows that even in a strong headwind, bear spray still travels far enough to hit a bear, and that it also remains effective at temperatures well below zero.
Alaska News Nightly: Friday, October 9, 2020
After a youth hockey tournament in Anchorage, a cluster of Covid cases. And Tanana Chiefs Conference joins Alaska Native villages suing over the Ambler Road project. Plus, new research shows bear spray can pack a punch even in windy or cold conditions.