Kristin Spack
Hometown, Alaska: Iditarod 2011
Ceremonial start downtown Anchorage, Iditarod 2008. Photo by Kristin Spack.
The Iditarod is just around the corner. Mushers are making final preparations. Food is stored along the trail. The Iditarod air force is flying. This...
Line One returns next week
Line One: Your Health Connection is taking an extended President's Day holiday, but not to worry, host Dr. Thad Woodard will be back in the studio on Monday March 7. Filling in for Line...
Spring Solar Outages Possible This Week on KSKA
Please be advised that that the spring solar outage season began on February 26 and will run through March 13.
A solar or sun transit outage is an electromagnetic phenomenon wherein a station is temporarily...
Fur Rondy Races Begin in Anchorage
Diana Haecker, KTNA – Talkeetna
The Fur Rendezvous open world championship sled dog race got underway Friday in Anchorage with the fastest dog teams in the world competing for Rondy champion. The...
Snow Carvers Begin Work on Sculptures
Photos and Story by Lori Townsend, APRN – Anchorage
The Fur Rondy snow sculptures contest is a popular event that showcases the carving, chipping and shaping talents of Alaskans with a ...
Fur Rondy Road Closures Feb. 24 – 27
In preparation for the Fur Rondy celebration, the Municipality of Anchorage will begin closing roads and parking spaces beginning this Thursday, Feb. 24 at 4:00 pm through Sunday, Feb 27 until approximately 8:00 pm....
Senator Lisa Murkowski Address to the Alaska Legislature
Thursday at 8:07 pm KSKA will broadcast U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski's address to the legislature, recorded earlier in the day. Hosted by 360 North, the program will feature a 25 - 30 minute speech...
Addressing Alaskans: Evolution of Creationism
The classroom controversy over whether to teach evolution or creationism has continued for decades in America's schools.This week on Addressing Alaskans, Dr. Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education explains...
KSKA 91.9 FM in Girdwood
KSKA engineers will be traveling to Girdwood today to resolve the issue with signal outages on 91.9 FM . If you can't hear KSKA on your radio in Girdwood right now, you can listen...
Hometown, Alaska: Alaska Women's Hall of Fame
Do you know why Anchorage has alternative schools? How about a local Planned Parenthood, Childcare Connection, or public radio and TV? You’d have to ask Caroline Wohlforth about all that.
Biking in Anchorage is catching...
Q & A with KSKA: Kevin Barnett
When Eagle River composer and pianist, Kevin Barnett wrote Lead Dog, he knew he was writing a theme song. Subtitled Kaya's Theme for his dog Kaya, Lead Dog is also the new official...
Addressing Alaskans: Dashiell Hammett in the Aleutians
This week on Addressing Alaskans, listen to playwright Peter Porco's presentation on "Dashiell Hammett in the Aleutians," recorded at the last lecture in the series on WWII in the Aleutians at the...
Hometown, Alaska: Medicare in Alaska
Anchorage’s senior citizen population is forty thousand and growing, but it’s been reported there are less than seven general physicians taking on new Medicare patients. This problem has not gone unnoticed by medical professionals...
Line One: Senior Care in Alaska
As reimbursement for doctors taking Medicare patients has declined over the years, seniors on Medicare have seen a dwindling number of health care options in Alaska. To discuss the issue of geriatrics in Anchorage...
AWAC Presents: Dr. Peter Schramm
SPEAKER: Dr. Peter W. Schramm, Executive Director, Ashbrook Center at Ashland University
TOPIC: “Recollections from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956”
RECORDED: Friday, February 11, 2011
ABOUT: Alaska World Affairs Council Presents is a public ...
Mubarak Resigns, Extended Coverage from Cairo Continues on KSKA
The Egyptian president resigned and handed control of state affairs to the military on Friday morning after 30 years in office.
Listen to NPR special coverage from Cairo from 8:00 am - 10:00 am on...
Health Care Decision Disappoints AARP
Last week, U.S. Senate Democrats voted down a Republican effort to repeal the Obama administration's health care law, and since then, the fate of the health care overhaul rests with the nation's Supreme Court,...
BBC Coverage from Cairo Starting at 8 PM
After weeks of protests in Cairo, today Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak addressed the nation saying he will stay in office and transfer all power only after September's election.
We've slightly adjusted today's (Thursday) broadcast schedule...
Addressing Alaskans: Remembering and Revisiting the Lost Villages of the Aleutians
Children of Makushin, late 19th century. University of Alaska Anchorage Archive and Manuscripts Department.
Four villages were left behind forever during World War II. In 2009 and 2010 Dr. Rachel Mason, cultural anthropologist with the...
Live Coverage from Cairo
NPR reports there is a "strong likelihood" President Mubarak will step down today. Stay tuned to KSKA FM 91.1 throughout the day for updates from the BBC, Public Radio International and NPR on the...