Book Chronicles Young Man’s Commercial Fishing Experiences
Being a deckhand can be tough, especially if you work for a boat owner who acts like a tyrant. In his new book Dead Reckoning, blank based author Dave Atcheson has written about his experience as a young man with no commercial fishing knowledge, trying to learn the business. His first job was really tough.
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Voices of Glacier Bay: An Adventure in Sound
Alaska writers and naturalists Richard Nelson and Hank Lentfer are nearing the end of a two-year project recording the "Voices of Glacier Bay." The project is a collaboration between Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, University of Alaska Southeast and Cornell University, which houses the world’s largest collection of natural sounds. Nelson and Lentfer hope to change how others experience the world through a dimension beyond what we can see. They want us to listen and listen closely.
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300 Villages: Pilot Point
This week we’re heading to Pilot Point on the Alaska Peninsula.
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Alaska News Nightly: October 3, 2014
Profile: Rep. Young, Still Punching, Seeks Another Term; Fire Briefly Flares Up At Offshore Gas Platform; Unalaska Residents Weigh In on Aleutian Climate Trends; Book Chronicles Young Man’s Commercial Fishing Experiences; AK: Wild Sound; 300 Villages: Pilot Point
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Infectious Disease
What do Alaskans need to know about the first case of Ebola in America and the risk to children from Enterovirus 68? Neither disease is in Alaska, but public health officials are preparing just in case.
APRN: Tuesday, 10/7 at 10:00am
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Alaska Edition: October 3, 2014
An Alaska Supreme Court ruling in a tribal adoption case goes against the tribe's position; what are the broader implications for ICWA cases? Governor Sean Parnell defends his response to the National Guard sexual assault issue. Alaska voters will decide on a number of ballot propositions on November 4, including: marijuana legalization, increasing the minimum wage, and an initiative that would effectively prohibit the Pebble Mine.
KSKA: Friday, August 15 at 2:00 p.m. and Saturday, August 16 at 6:00 p.m.
KAKM: Friday, August 15 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, August 16 at 4:30 p.m.
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Parnell On Defense Over National Guard Response
With only a few weeks left before Election Day, Parnell is rejecting claims that he did not respond to the Alaska National Guard's problems quickly enough.
Education issue fuels candidates for Senate Seat K
Political newcomer Clare Ross is running against Representative Mia Costello for Hollis French's old Senate seat, District K in southwest Anchorage. French decided to run for Lt. Governor instead. Now the two women are competing for the opening and are both making the same promise -- that they'll improve education in the state.
Fairbanks 4 Member Granted Parole
A second member of the Fairbanks 4 has been granted parole. The Alaska Parole Board approved Eugene Vent’s request despite his continued claims he’s innocent.
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Hilcorp Drilling Platform Catches Fire In Cook Inlet
Four people were safely evacuated from a drilling platform in Cook Inlet that caught fire Thursday morning.
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Native Leaders Say Court Ruling Will Cut Off Native Children From Community, Culture
Native leaders say a Sept. 12th Alaska Supreme Court ruling in a case involving a Yup’ik child will cause higher numbers of Native children to be cut off from their families and culture.
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Quinhagak Residents Hopeful Hair Samples Will Unlock More Mysteries About Ancestors
An archaeological dig near Quinhagak, in Southwest Alaska, contributed the largest set of genetic samples for a groundbreaking DNA study of Arctic indigenous people released this summer.
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Alaska News Nightly: October 2, 2014
Gov. Parnell Defends Against Claims That Response To National Guard Was Too Slow; Fairbanks 4 Member Granted Parole; Hilcorp Drilling Platform Catches Fire In Cook Inlet; Native Leaders Say Court Ruling Will Cut Off Native Children From Community, Culture; Quinhagak Residents Hopeful Hair Samples Will Unlock More Mysteries About Ancestors; Congressional Candidates Talk Fish in Kodiak; A Sneak Peak Of Bethel's New Fitness Center
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Congressional Candidates Talk Fish in Kodiak
Alaska’s congressional candidates descended on Kodiak Wednesday night for a debate that pinned candidates running for both the House and Senate against their opponents on a number of fisheries-related issues.
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A Sneak Peak Of Bethel’s New Fitness Center
The Fitness center, which includes a swimming pool, is set to open in Bethel in November. The project has been in the works for decades and anticipation is building in the community, where no other such facility exists.
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Mat Su Borough District 5 Race
Two political newcomers are vying for the Matanuska Susitna Borough's District 5 seat, since incumbent Darcie Salmon has decided to retire. Borough elections are set for October 7, and the heat is building up in this, the only contested race, which pits two long time community leaders, Bill Kendig and Dan Mayfield, against each other to represent the Borough's fast growing industrial area.
With Little Opposition, Minimum Wage Campaign Seeks Mandate
Even though the few polls that have been done on the measure show it clearing 60 percent of the vote, the campaign wants to guarantee as wide a margin as possible to discourage lawmakers from tampering with the minimum wage or the inflation indexing component in the future.
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Federal Grants Boost Services at Aleutian-Pribilof Clinics
Community health centers in the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands will get at least $600,000 in federal grant money for new services this year. The grants are aimed in part at helping new patients who enrolled in health plans under the Affordable Care Act. But there aren’t many of those in the Aleutian Islands. Instead, providers will use the money for the patients they already have.
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No Confirmed Cases Of Unusual Respiratory Illness In Alaska
The manager of Alaska’s infectious disease program says it wouldn’t be surprising if an unusual respiratory illness that has affected children in the Lower 48 is detected soon in Alaska.
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Federal Agency Expresses Concern With Dam Studies
A federal fisheries agency has raised concerns about the accuracy of some studies being conducted for a massive proposed dam in Southcentral Alaska.
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