Two Charter Amendments on Muni Ballot
Right now only sworn police officers are allowed to issue parking tickets. The situation stems from something called the parking fairy wars. Yes, you heard that right – the parking fairy wars.
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As Public Testimony Floods In, Permitting Bill’s Future Uncertain
With less than a month of session to go, the Parnell administration is in a similar spot with HB77 as it was last year: Opposition came out strong and fast, key senators are on the fence, and movement on the controversial permitting bill has stalled.
Alaska Highway Money Not an Easy Sell to Congress
The government of Canada’s Yukon Territory is asking Congress to pay for reconstruction of the Alaska Highway. Premier Darrell Pasloski was in Washington recently to make the case. A spokesman for Congressman Don Young says it's the right thing to do, but it will take political pressure.
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Treadwell Announces Campaign Changes
Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Mead Treadwell has parted ways with his campaign manager.
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Board of Fish Approves Kuskokwim Dipnetting
Kuskowkim fisherman will be able to use dipnets this summer to target other species of salmon during periods of king salmon closures. The Board of Fish approved the emergency petition this morning.
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Anchorage And Alaska Railroad Celebrating 100th Birthday
Anchorage is celebrating its 100th birthday. Anchorage historian and author Charles Wohlforth is writing the history of Alaska's largest city and included in the story is why and how the federal government got in to the railroad business in Alaska. The idea was to wrestle control of resources away from the “Alaska syndicate,” a private railroad and coal monopoly run by the wealthy Guggenheim and Morgan families.
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Valdez Museum Prepares Commemorates 1964 Quake
The Valdez Museum is commemorating next week’s 50th anniversary of the 1964 Earthquake with the launch of two exhibits.
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300 Villages: Tenakee Springs
This week, we’re heading to the southeastern village of Tenakee Springs, a snowbird community, stretched along the beach of Tenakee Inlet. Don Pegues is mayor of Tenakee Springs.
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Alaska News Nightly: March 21, 2014
HB77 Stalls In Legislature; Canada Asks U.S. To Pay For Alaska Highway Reconstruction; Treadwell Announces Campaign Changes; Board of Fish Approves Kuskokwim Dipnetting; Alaska Railroad Celebrating 100th Birthday; Valdez Museum Prepares Commemorates 1964 Quake; AK: Didgeridoo; 300 Villages: Tenakee Springs
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The Graphic Novels of J Torres
You may never have heard of “Teen Titans Go,” but that may be because you’re just too old to appreciate comic books. Young readers across the state will be connecting with comic author and blogger J Torres, on the annual “Alaska Spirit of Reading” book club edition of Talk of Alaska.
APRN: Tuesday, 3/25 at 10:00am
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AK: Didgeridoo
You might not expect an ancient Aboriginal instrument from Australia to find its way to Alaska. But walk around downtown Ketchikan on a warm day and you may hear 15-year-old Kinani Halvorsen playing her didgeridoo. She’s played the unusual instrument for three years. And she hopes to bring the didgeridoo into the mainstream band practice.
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Seiners Land 4K Tons In Herring Season Opener
The Sitka herring fishery had its first opening yesterday afternoon. The Alaska Department of Fish & Game declared the Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery open at 1:45 p.m. The fishing area covered much of Starrigavan and Katlian bays, north of Sitka.
Witnesses Begin Taking The Stand In Yakutat Homicide Case
Opening statements were held Thursday and the first witnesses took the stand in the case of a man accused of killing his girlfriend at a Yakutat lodge 17 1/2 years ago.
UniSea Worker Accused of Two Assaults in One Day
A 20-year-old man is facing felony charges in back-to-back assaults at the UniSea bunkhouses this week -- including an attempted sexual assault.
Navy Subs Training In Arctic Ocean
A pair of Navy submarines are on maneuvers in the Arctic Ocean sea ice. One came up from the East Coast and the other from the West Coast.
Paddle Making Workshop Illuminates State’s High Suicide Rate
Suicide rates in Alaskan communities are some of the highest in the country. Last weekend, the One People Canoe Society held a two-day paddle-making workshop in Wrangell. As part of the workshop, participants attended a behavioral health course on suicide prevention. Its goal is to bring communities together to both learn a traditional art and talk about a contemporary problem.
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Lessons from the Exxon Valdez
Twenty-five years ago today, Alaska was about to mark the anniversary of the 1964 Earthquake, and, unknown to all, was less than four days from its next big disaster: the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. Today in Washington, environmentalists who’ve been dealing with the spill and its political effects for all these years met to publicize what they say are the lessons of the Exxon Valdez.
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Judge Nixes ‘Save Our Salmon’ Initiative
Despite all the fuss over the Save Our Salmon Initiative that passed by a narrow vote of Lake and Peninsula Boro Voters in 2011, that law is now officially null and void. That’s on account of a ruling from Superior Court Judge John Suddock on Wednesday, following a three-year long lawsuit brought by Pebble and the State of Alaska.
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ADF&G Opens Herring Fishing In Starrigavan, Katlian Bays
The Department of Fish & Game has announced that the first opening of the Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery will be at approximately 1:45 PM today (Thu 3-20-14) in the area of Starrigavan and Katlian bays.
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Alaska House Passes Izembek Road Resolution
The Alaska House of Representatives passed a resolution Tuesday calling for the U.S. Department of the Interior to reverse course and allow a road to be built between the Alaska Peninsula communities of King Cove and Cold Bay for safety reasons.
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