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Biologists Using Deer Pellets to Map DNA
Counting deer droppings is a time honored method used by biologists to figure out how many deer are in a certain place. But it’s not a perfect science.
Jay Marble, KRBD - Prince of Wales...
Alaska News Nightly: March 27, 2009
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House Passes Support Resolution for Stimulus Funds
Dave Donaldson, APRN -...
Stage Talk: The Cone of Uncertainty, New Orleans After Katrina
New Orleans performance artist José Torres Tama was a firsthand witness to the apocalyptic abandonement of a city whose people were made to beg for water and buses before television cameras. Performed with a...
Anchorage School Board Seat E candidates: Don Smith and Bobby Jo Krammer
KSKA continues its spring election series with two more school board candidate Seat E profiles. School board seats are elected "at-large," so that means voters throughout Anchorage will vote in all four...
Mount Redoubt Dusts Kenai Peninsula
Mount Redoubt exploded this morning with its highest ash cloud yet, sending a plume 65 thousand feet in the air. An hour before, the volcano pushed out ash to 30 thousand feet. Redoubt recorded...
Scientists Expect Volcano to Explode Without Warning
Redoubt’s activity today happened without warning after a lull yesterday when the Alaska Volcano Observatory lowered the volcano’s alert level. Stephanie Prejean is a AVO geophysicist. She says that’s exactly what scientists anticipated. She...
Governor Names New Attorney General
With Cook Inlet as the backdrop, Governor Sarah Palin announced her pick for Alaska Attorney General today in downtown Anchorage at Resolution Park.
Lori Townsend, APRN - Anchorage
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Lawmakers Miffed at Canceled Meeting on Stimulus Funds
Legislative leaders this week have anticipated a face-to-face meeting scheduled today (Thursday) with Governor Palin, looking for some direct guidance on what she plans to do with the federal economic stimulus money available to...
Study Shows Importance of Aviation to Alaska Public Media
It’s long been common knowledge that aviation is crucial to Alaska. But for the first time, aviation’s importance in the state has been quantified, thanks to an economic assessment from the Department of Transportation...
Fort Wainwright Soldiers Petition Army for Better Treatment
A group of Ft. Wainwright soldiers is petitioning the Army to examine and improve the way it treats injured and sick service members. Sergeant Jesse Raymo is part of a group gathering signatures for...
Anchorage Doctors Turning Away New Medicare Patients
Most doctors in Alaska’s cities have stopped accepting new medicare patients. A new study from the University of Alaska’s Institute of Social and Economic Research found only 13 primary care doctors in Anchorage...
Young Brothers Race Well at Cross Country National Championships
U.S. Ski team athletes won the team sprint events at the Cross Country Ski National Championships in Fairbanks last night. In the women’s’ race, Vermonter’s Liz Stephen and Morgan Smyth paired up to win....
Alaska News Nightly: March 26, 2009
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Mount Redoubt Dusts Kenai Peninsula
Casey Kelly, KBBI - Homer and...
Anchorage School Board Seat F candidates: Dawn Bundick and Jeff Friedman
Dawn Bundick (left) and Jeff Friedman (right)
KSKA continues its spring election series with profiles of the two candidates running for Anchorage School Board Seat F.
Jeff Friedman for School Board
Vote for Dawn Bundick
Len Anderson, KSKA...
AWAC Presents: Lobsang Nyandak, the Dalai Lama's representative to the U.S.
As we recognize Alaska's 50th anniversary of statehood, a little farther west, 2009 also marks the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising of 1959, when more than 86,000 Tibetans were slaughtered by Chinese troops....
Mount Redoubt Erupts this morning
Photo from Alaska Volcano Observatory: Redoubt eruption plume, taken from Diamond Ridge near Homer at 9:51am, by Dennis Anderson. The small "RS" is the approximate location of the summit.
Mount Redoubt has erupted multiple times...
State Senate Approves More Fuel Assistance for Low Income Alaskans
Low-income Alaskans can look for a little more help paying for their fuel under a bill that passed the State Senate today (Wednesday).
Dave Donaldson, APRN - Juneau
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Lawmakers Ask Public to Weigh-in on Federal Stimulus
A lot has been said and written on the governor’s decision not to accept nearly a third of the federal economic stimulus funds for which the state qualifies. Now, the legislature wants to hear...
Alaskans Feel the Pinch of National Recession
Despite the gloom of the global recession, springtime means a natural growth in seasonal employment - especially in Alaska. The number of jobs increase in industries like seafood processing, tourism and construction.
Rebecca Sheir, KTOO...
Skagway Braces for Far Fewer Cruise Ship Visitors
Princess Cruises confirmed last week their plans to pull one of its cruise ships from Alaska during the 2010 summer season. The absence of the Star Princess means Skagway will lose an estimated 48...