Kristin Spack
Stage Talk: My Heart Runs in Two Directions at Once and Refugee Nation
This week on Stage Talk, host Mark Muro is joined by Alaska Native Storyteller, Jack Dalton from My Heart Runs in Two Directions at Once, which is now playing at Cyrano's Off-Center Playhouse.
Along ...
Anchorage Assembly to extend public hearing on 2008/2009 budget
This week's Anchorage Assembly meeting featured the second public hearing on proposed 2008 and 2009 municipal budgets. For nearly two hours people pressed their case for favorite programs. The assembly was non-comittal, except to...
City drops I/M test
Come January 1st, 2010, Anchorage drivers will no longer be paying about 60 dollars for an vehicle Inspection/Maintenance test. Last night the Anchorage Assembly overwhelmingly backed dropping the requirement that every two...
Community Forum: Professor Steve Haycox & Michael Carey
What will historians write about the last two decades of Alaska politics? On Community Forum with Nellie Moore, UAA American cultural historian and opinion columnist for the Anchorage Daily News, Professor Steve Haycox and...
End of an Era
The state's Creamery Corporation Board has set a final pickup date for milk bound for Matanuska Maid processing and scheduled a last delivery date for Matanuska Maid dairy products.
Ellen Lockyer, APRN - Matanuska...
Line One: Talking With Your Kids about Sex
This weeks guest on Line One: Your Health Connection, Dr. John Chirban tells parents how to talk to their kids about sex. Author of What's Love Got to Do With It: Talking with Your...
Building goes down as Government Hill's hopes rise…
The redevelopment of Anchorage's oldest neighborhood took a step forward yesterday with the demolition of a former auto body shop and gas station. The razing was one of two Government Hill redevelopment projects recognized...
Anchorage firefighters win national honors
After taking a gold medal at the Firefighter Combat Challenge National Championships last month, the three-man team from the Anchorage Fire Department leaves this evening for Las Vegas and the World Championship competition.
Team Paul...
Stage Talk: Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio
This week on Stage Talk, host Mark Muro is joined by Tom Getty, Amanda Pabyan and Torrie Allen from the Anchorage Opera's presentation of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio. Amanda Pabyan plays one of...
Transportation Department gives Knik bridge builders a "conditional" boost
The proposed Knik Arm Bridge received a financial boost this week from the U-S Department of Transportation. On Monday the DOT granted "conditional approval" for a 600 million dollar allocation of Private Activity Bonds....
Community Forum: Lt. Nancy Reeder, APD
Nellie Moore hosts a discussion on "spooky driving." Today's guest, Lieutenant Nancy Reeder, Traffic Unit Commander for the Anchorage Police Department talks about safe driving on this Halloween night and addresses questions and comments...
Valley groups organize to protect wild salmon
2 year old Robert Morgan studies a northern pike, a voracious predator in Alaska, threatening various fish populations. Photo by Patty Sullivan/MSB
Science shows wild salmon can not maintain their numbers if their habitat...
Line One: Brain Concussion
This week on Line One: Your Health Connection, neuropsychologists Dr. Russell Cherry and Dr. Heather Gray join Dr. Woodard for a discussion on brain concussion. Members of Providence Hospital's new Concussion Management Program, Cherry...
Stage Talk: Sherlock Holmes and Spontaneous Combustion
Host Mark Muro chats with Garry Forester from Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles and conductor of the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra, Randy Fleischer who returned to KSKA with Chris Brubeck to discuss...
Assembly bumps I/M tests and dog ordinance for budget hearing
"Many words, little action" summarizes last night's Anchorage Assembly session. The two major items drawing people to the meeting went undiscussed as the first public hearing on next year's municipal budget dominated the final...
Alaska Radio Reader Rambler: Native Heritage Month
Hosts Sandy Harper and Dick Reichman chat with Michael Fredricks about Native Heritage Month in Alaska. A dream catcher workshop, fry bread Mondays, and a double feature at the Beartooth Theatre are just a...
Next year will see even fewer Anchorage students
The Anchorage School Board heard Monday night that the downward trend of student numbers is almost certain to continue into the 2007-2008 school term. This prediction comes after a sizable drop in students...
School Board receives a hefty report card on district performance
Last night the Anchorage School Board learned how the district was performing, not according to federal or state benchmarks, but their own. The results were mixed and the data nearly overwhelming.
ASD: Assessment &...
Line One: Immunizations and the HPV Vaccine
Host Dr. Thad Woodard interviews members of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services. Alaska Immunization Program Manager, Laurel Wood and Education and Training Manager, Doreen Stangel answer questions on new developments in...
Matunuska Valley tries to counter rising horse abuse cases
About four thousand horses live between the Kenai Peninsula and Fairbanks. Unfortunately, some horse owners can't afford their animals and horse neglect cases in the Matanuska Valley have sharply increased this year.
Ellen...