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Alaska News Nightly: December 30, 2011
Russian Tanker Gets Jones Act Waiver, Teen Found Dead In Bethel Park Identified, Scientists Downgrade Cleveland Volcano Aviation Alert Level, Boeing Wins Missile Defense Contract, ADF&G Shows Interest In Bethel Subsistence Patterns, ‘Alaskan Wet Dog Race’ Set For 2013, Year In Review: Sitka, Anchorage and Juneau, AK: Crab Bait Radio, 300 Villages: Houston
Alaska News Nightly: December 29, 2011
Anchorage Port Director Announces Retirement, Susitna-Watana Dam One Step Closer To Reality, Cleveland Volcano Erupts, Girl Injected With Heroin Dies, Vitus Marine Waiting For Decision On Jones Act Waiver, EPA Begins Assessment Of Bristol Bay Watershed, Part 3: Urban Hospitals in Alaska Reap Huge Profits, State Gets Money For Efforts To Enroll Children In Public Health Care, UAF Returning Over 1,000 Union Organizing Letters, Year In Review: Nome and Anchorage
Alaska News Nightly: December 28, 2011
Russian Tanker Waiting On Jones Act Waiver, Missing Bethel Teen Found Dead, Karluk Manor Object Of Lawsuit Against Anchorage Municipality, National Parks See Visitor Increase In 2011, Part 2: Specialty Care Comes With a Big Price Tag in Alaska, Salvation Army Receives Unusual Donation, State Money Available For Those Looking For Future In Film, Adventurous Family Selling Book On Nomadic Lifestyle, Year In Review: Haines, Unalaska and Homer
Alaska News Nightly: December 27, 2011
Judge Releases BP From Probation For 2009 Spill, Man Faces Four Charges For Injecting Teen With Heroin, Part One: Health Care In Alaska, ACS Lowers Annual Shareholder Dividend By 77 Percent, RuralCap Working On Rural Energy Saving Upgrades, ‘Community Asset Building Initiative’ Gets $2 Million For Expansion, Northern Southeast’s Sea Otter Population Growing Slower Than Southern Region, Year In Review: Juneau, Dillingham and Fairbanks
Alaska News Nightly: December 26, 2011
State Gives $1.5 Million To Support Suicide, Substance Abuse Prevention In Southwest Alaska, Mushers Add Another Alaska Race To Schedule, Federal Definition Of Homelessness Finalized, Budget Would Put New Trooper Helicopter In Fairbanks, Japanese Tsunami Flotsam Appearing In Kodiak Waters, Panel Discusses NPFMC Process, Year In Review: Washington DC, Nome and Sitka
Alaska State Council On The Arts
Alaska Radio Reader Rambler hosts Charlotte Fox as she says farewell to leading the Alaska State Council On The Arts, but she is leaving with a Major State Arts Event as part of her legacy and leadership of Alaska's infinite resource..the nurturing of the rich Arts and Cultural life of Alaska.
KSKA: Monday, 12/26 @ 1:00pm
Alaska News Nightly: December 22, 2011
Coast Guard Cutter Will Break Ice For Nome Fuel Delivery, Slower Internet Likely To Persist In Rural Alaska, Anchorage Storms Cause Widespread Electric Utility Damage, FEMA Makes Disaster Funds Available To Alaska, Jeff King Wins First Race Since Coming Out Of Retirement, GIFT Draws 5,000 In-Need Families, Rep. Gara Pushes For Laptop Donations For Foster Kids, Fairbanks Awards Contract To Investigate Local LNG Distribution Expansion, Leaders Look To Improve Southeast Economy
Alaska News Nightly: December 21, 2011
Eight Charged In Death Of Stryker Brigade Soldier, EPA Issues New Mercury Emission Regulations, Ruling Expected On Atka Mackerel, Pacific Cod Restriction Roll Backs, Capital Budget Proposes Southeast Boat Harbor Improvements, Groups Still Seeking Holiday Donations, Child Advocates Work to Support Senate Bill 3, Strange Weather Expected To Give Way For Traditional Temperatures Soon, Ester Residents Approve Ultra-Efficient Library Design, ‘Mass Wasting’ Event Destroys Popular Sitka Trail,
Bethel Volunteers Raise $2,000 Towards Swimming Pool
Volunteers in Bethel raised nearly $2,000 selling Christmas cookies. Proceeds are going to a swimming pool fund, something their group—the Y-K Lifesavers—has been after for 18 years.
Alaska News Nightly: December 20, 2011
TransCanada, Exxon Mobil Hold Off On Filing Resource Reports, Mysterious Seal Disease Gets 'Unusual Mortality Event' Designation, NPS Banned From Spending Money On Yukon Charley Law Enforcement, Ethics Committee Clears Rep. Young Of Alleged Violations, APOC Issues Decision On RBG Bush Planes Investigation, Petersburg Drops Redistricting Challenge, Pacific High Plans Include Commons, Roof Garden, Bethel Volunteers Raise $2,000 Towards Swimming Pool
Alaska News Nightly: December 19, 2011
US House Republicans Plan To Reject Payroll Tax Cut Extension, ConocoPhillips Receives Permit To Access NPR-A, Japan Tsunami Debris Arriving on West Coast, Pieces Coming Together For Historic Nome Fuel Delivery, ‘Occupy’ Protests Have Unexpected Impact In Wrangell, Herring Limit Jumps After ADF&G Adjusts Ages, Fourth Chinook Predicted in Southcentral, Nikiski LNG Plant Gets Reprieve, BBNA Preparing Transit System Plan
Alaska News Nightly: December 15, 2011
Parnell Sends Legislature His Budget Plan for Next Year, Senate Confirms Judge Morgan Christen, Spending Bill Proposes Pipeline Office Cuts, Potential Norton Sound Health Aides May Result In Job Loss, ASD Superintendent Search Down To Two Finalists, NPFMC Considers Requiring Active Participation for Crab Fishery, ACMP Initiative Sponsors Frustrated By Delays, Dupre Back For Second Solo Denali Attempt, The Great Christmas Tree Challenge is Underway in Bristol Bay
Congressional Countdown To Christmas; And The Next Step For The Alaska Gas Line
The stories up for discussion this week are: the Congressional countdown to Christmas; the use of fireworks in Anchorage on New Year’s Eve; Governor Parnell’s proposed 2012 budget; fallout from the investigation and prosecution of Ted Stevens; legislative session opens in January; Linehan conviction thrown out; frankenfish; the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board; and the next step for the Alaska gas line.
Alaska News Nightly: December 14, 2011
Norton Sound Health Aides Prepare To Go On Strike, Behavior Risk Survey Moving Work Out-of-State, Alaska Soldier Dies in Virginia Helicopter Accident, Congress Wrestles With Payroll Tax Holiday Funding, Popular Beach May Have High Mercury Levels, Ft. Wainwright Losing 62 Civilian Jobs, National Group Supports ANWR Development, Chenault Speaks On Alaska Gas Line Project, Big Chunk Super Project Near Pebble Deposit, Subsistence-Only Herring Zones Proposals Fail in Sitka
Alaska News Nightly: December 13, 2011
Bethel Judge Again Under Fire For Questionable Behavior, Court Upholds Alaska Tribal Government Sovereignty, APD Investigating Shooting Of Toddler, Ft. Wainwright Aviation Unit Returns to Fairbanks, USPS Delays Post Office Closures, UAF Union Organizing Hits Stumbling Block, Estimated $24 Million Needed To Repair Nome-Council Highway, Outside Forces Present Challenges For Alaska Economy, Ship’s Return Pushes Million-Passenger Mark, BBNA Set to Plan Regional Transit
Alaska News Nightly: December 12, 2011
Congress Works To Keep Government Funded As Latest Continuing Resolution Ends, Occupiers Make Statement at Port of Anchorage, Judge Harpoons Petersburg’s Redistricting Challenge, Randall Ranks First Among World Cup Sprinters, Government Seeks Delay on Seal Status Decision, Nome Hopes to Tap into Nearby Natural Gas, APOC Investigating RGB Bush Planes, After Long Debate, Polluck Quota Lowered Slightly, Karluk Manor Proving Popular
Alaska News Nightly: December 9, 2011
Parnell Proposes $4.9 Million For Emergency Food Caches, Legislators Study ‘Rebalancing’ Taxes, Not Cutting Them, Fineberg Says Conservation Key To Reducing Foreign Oil Dependence, Court Upholds Contempt Of Court Citation In Stevens Case, Helo Pilot, CG Command Await Report On Crash Charges, Houston Man Arrested For Threatening State Trooper, Fairbanks Residents Weigh In On Long-Term UAF Plan, Rudder Repaired, Vessel Headed For Unalaska, AK: The Most Famous Auction In Alaska, 300 Villages: Adak
300 Villages: Adak
And now, a trip to the most far flung community in Alaska. Adak is near the end of the Aluetian Chain, farther west than Hawaii. It’s an old Navy base, that is in the middle of a revitalization. Layton Lockett is the city manager of Adak.
BP Oil Spill Case; and Petroleum Lease Sales
The stories up for discussion this week are: the BP oil spill case; petroleum lease sales bring in $21 million; film industry incentive program; potential road extension to Nome; fatal hit-and-run suspect arrested; Coastal Zone Management; Clearwire wireless leaving Alaska; Anchorage Assembly asking for $59 million in school bonds on next ballot.
KSKA: Friday, 12/9 @ 2:00pm & Saturday, 12/10 @ 6:00pm
KAKM: Friday, 12/9 @ 7:30pm & Saturday, 12/10 @ 5:00pm
Alaska News Nightly: December 8, 2011
Former Garden Ornament Offers Insight Into Unangan Culture, North Slope Borough Responds To Run-Off Election Investigation, Woman Arrested, Charged In Fatal Hit-And-Run, ‘One Anchorage’ Works To Put Equal Rights Initiative On Ballot, Article 32 Hearing Continues On Chopper Crash, Officials Holding Public Hearings On OCS Leasing Schedule, State Joins Lawsuit Challenging NPS Navigable Waters Authority, Alaska Allowing Use Of DocBookMD Application, Children’s Christmas Program Fills Homer Theatre