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.
Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019
The legal peculiarities of Alaska law on recall elections, as the effort to unseat the governor lands in court. Also: Fairbanks militia leader Schaeffer Cox has been re-sentenced after a successful appeal.
Alaska militia leader Schaeffer Cox’s murder conspiracy sentence cut by 10 years
A judge has reduced Fairbanks militia leader Schaeffer Cox’s sentence after part of his conviction in a murder conspiracy was thrown out on appeal.
Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019
With criticism for the attorney general, the fight to recall Governor Dunleavy heads to court. Also: The Alaska State Troopers graduate a new class of drug dogs, and one already has a big bust. And a tribute to Richard Nelson, the anthropologist, writer and host of “Encounters," who passed away Monday.
Alaska News Nightly: Monday, Nov. 4, 2019
The group seeking to recall Gov. Mike Dunleavy says it will take its case to court after its application was denied by a state elections official. Also: Mark Begich says he has a solution to the exorbitant grocery prices that plague rural Alaska.
Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Nov. 1, 2019
It's looking like an oil and gas lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will not happen before the end of the year. Also: Southeast residents are trying to cope with ferry service cuts, reduced further now with a vessel under repair. And private developers want to build a new ferry dock near Ketchikan.
Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019
Don Young talks about why he voted no today on the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Also: A grassroots youth movement in Anchorage led by two local men aims to create safe spaces for kids to express themselves and plug into peer support.
Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019
Unalaska may declare a state of emergency in the wake of this month's fatal plane crash on the island. Also: Alaska's top environmental regulator responds to a call for action on climate change by the state's leading Native group.
Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019
Unalaska may declare a state of emergency in the wake of this month's fatal plane crash on the island. Also: Alaska's top environmental regulator responds to a call for action on climate change by the state's leading Native group.
State approves heli-ski permit for Hatcher Pass
Under the permit, Hatcher Pass Mountain Guides can start operating Dec. 1.
Alaska News Nightly: Monday, Oct. 28, 2019
Judge rules that a ballot measure that would change how Alaskans choose state elected officials can move forward. Also: Still no sign of a missing Homer woman who vanished Oct. 17.
LISTEN: Putting Native issues out front, Portugal. The Man talks protests, indigenous influence on next album
Portugal. The Man's Zachary Carothers told Alaska Public Media at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention that the band has been acknowledging local Native people, their traditions and their land before each of the band's shows, as they have toured all over the world.
Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019
Questions about safety procedures after the fatal plane crash in Dutch Harbor last week. Also: A plan to ship liquefied natural gas from Alaska's North coast with ice-breaking tankers. And moving day has finally arrived for the first wave of Newtok residents being relocated.
Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019
The proposed Pebble Mine's backers spent more than $1 million dollars this year to lobby Congress. Also: A judge orders the state to stop housing psychiatric patients in jails.
Citing ‘irreparable harm,’ judge orders state to stop jailing psychiatric patients
In the order, Judge Morse writes that psychiatric patients held at jails were “suffering irreparable harm.”
Alaska News Nightly: Monday, Oct. 21, 2019
A passenger describes what it was like on board the plane that crash landed in Dutch Harbor yesterday, killing one person. Also: Corporate leaders express support for the effort to recall Gov. Mike Dunleavy on day two of the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention in Fairbanks.
LISTEN: Iditarod champion Pete Kaiser talks about role models, raising dogs
Alaska Federation of Natives convention keynote speaker Pete Kaiser grew up around sled dogs, and he says his speech Thursday was about relating lessons learned from raising dogs himself.
PHOTOS: Inside AFN’s Customary Native Arts Show
As Alaskans from around the state gather in Fairbanks for the annual Alaska Federation of Natives convention, 170 artists filled the Carlson Center for the popular Customary Native Arts Show.
LISTEN: Why an Alaska artist made a 12-foot kuspuk featuring the faces of missing and murdered Native women
Alaska Native artist Amber Webb says the 12-foot-tall kuspuk includes the portraits of 250 Native women missing or killed in the U.S and Canada.
Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019
Questions about the governor's relationship with the Alaska Federation of Natives. Also: A proposal to fully exempt Tongass National Forest from the Roadless Rule draws criticism.