Josh Edge, Alaska Public Media
Ted Stevens Memorial Program Released
Officials have released the program for the memorial of former-Senator Ted Stevens. The memorial began at 2:00 p.m. at the Anchorage Baptist Temple and was attended by many prominent figures representing Alaska, the nation...
Stevens’ Memorial Expected Attendees Announced
A list of expected attendees for former-Senator Ted Stevens' memorial service, which will be held tomorrow - Wednesday, August 18 - at 2:00 p.m. in the Anchorage Baptist Temple, has been released.
Some names on...
Hundreds Line Streets for Stevens' Motorcade
A crowd approaching 80 people stood together on the overpass near West High School - many with tears in their eyes - in a tribute to Ted Stevens. Approximately 30 more lined Minnesota Drive,...
Public Pays Last Respects to Alaskan Legend
Libby Casey, APRN – Anchorage
At 9:30 this morning, the body of Senator Ted Stevens arrived at All Saints Episcopal Church for a public visitation that will continue until 8:00 this evening. As...
Anchorage Baptist Temple Prepares for Stevens’ Memorial
Annie Feidt, APRN – Anchorage
The Anchorage Baptist Temple is busy preparing to host Senator Stevens’ memorial service Wednesday. The event is expected to draw thousands of people, filling up the church’s auditorium,...
Endangered Species Act Recovery Plans Lacks Strategy for Coping with Global Warming
Lori Townsend, APRN – Anchorage
A recent review of Endangered Species Act recovery plans finds a lack of a national strategy for incorporating global warming as an extinction threat. The review was undertaken...
Officials Seek Way to Improve Health Care in Rural Alaska
Joaqlin Estus, KNBA – Anchorage
Officials from the military, Indian Health Service, Veterans Affairs and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services have been traveling Alaska to find ways to improve federal delivery...
Angoon Home Tests Energy Efficiency Technology
Ed Schoenfeld, CoastAlaska – Juneau
A home in Angoon is getting a $100,000 retrofit to test energy-efficient technology. Southeast tribal and environmental groups hope the house will show that solar, wind and other...
Slain Humanitarian Worker Remembered
Ellen Lockyer, KSKA – Anchorage
Dr. Thomas Grams was one of 10 humanitarian workers massacred in an ambush in Afghanistan earlier this month. Thomas Grams was a Durango, Colorado dentist who traveled with...
Alaska News Nightly: August 17, 2010
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Public Pays Last Respects to Alaskan Legend
Libby Casey, APRN –...
Talk of Alaska: Ethan Berkowitz, Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate
He talks of modernizing Alaska. He served in the State House and ran for state-wide office twice. This time, Democrat Ethan Berkowitz is running for Governor. And he will be available to talk...
Alaskans Pay Respects to Ted Stevens
Len Anderson, KSKA - Anchorage
At about 9:30 this morning, the body of Senator Ted Stevens arrived at All
Saints Episcopal Church for a public visitation to begin at 10:00 a.m. and
continue until 8:00...
Obama Signs Bill Giving Money to Medicaid, Teachers
Libby Casey, APRN – Washington DC
President Obama signed into law last week a bill that sends states more than $26 billion for teacher salaries and Medicaid. Alaska’s governor requested the Medicaid money,...
Investigators Able to Move Most Wreckage from Meklung Hills
Adam Kane, KDLG – Dillingham
The National Transportation Safety Board is continuing its investigation into the crash that killed Senator Stevens and four others last week. Investigators were able to remove most of...
Man in 1978 Crash Revisits the Event
Dave Donaldson, APRN – Juneau
Many reports on Ted Stevens’ life in the last week have mentioned the crash at Anchorage International Airport in 1978 that took the life of his first wife,...
Nearly All Alaska Water Meets Quality Standards
Joaqlin Estus, KNBA – Anchorage
Nearly half the nation’s surface water is located in Alaska – that’s more than 3-million lakes and ponds, 700,000 plus miles of rivers and streams, and 44,000 miles...
Wild Salmon Prices Boom
Shane Iverson, KYUK, Bethel
Commercial fishermen on the Kuskokwim River are getting prices not seen since farmed salmon took over the market. For the last decade there’s been just one fish buyer on...
Coast Guards Western-Most Station to be Decomissioned
Alexandra Gutierrez, KUCB – Unalaska
Last week, the Coast Guard demolished the tallest structure on Attu Island. A 625-foot LORAN tower – which stands for Long Range Aids to Navigation – was brought...
PSP May Not Have Been Cause of One Death
Tara Bicknell, KHNS – Haines
Alaska health officials still classify two recent deaths in Southeast Alaska as suspected paralytic shellfish poisoning cases. Recent autopsy results point to another cause of death in at least one...
Fairbanks Feels Record Heat
Dan Bross, KUAC – Fairbanks
Fairbanks set a new high temperature record yesterday. National Weather Service meteorologist Mathew Kidwell says the 91 degree reading was more than just a new high for the...