Stuart Creek 2 Fire Ramps Up
Hot, dry, windy weather has operations ramping back up on the Stuart creek wildfire east of Fairbanks.
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Susitna King Salmon Numbers Looking Up
King Salmon numbers for the Susitna are looking better than other runs in the state.
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Fight Percolating Over Chugiak Solid Waste Project
A fight is percolating over a planned solid waste project in Chugiak.
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Galena Gets $900,000 Grant For Flood Recovery
City of Galena has been awarded a $900,000 grant from the federal government to help it recover from last spring’s devastating flood.
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Flood Water In Effect For Upper Tanana River Area
A flood watch is in effect for rivers feeding the upper Tanana River in the eastern interior.
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Fairbanks Hits 31st Day Over 80 Degrees This Summer
Thursday marked the 31st day this summer that it hit or surpassed 80 degrees in Fairbanks breaking a record set in 2004.
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Tragedy And Courage On The Bering Sea
A new documentary tells the story of one of the most riveting stories of disaster at sea.
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AK: Fish Camp
Dotting the coast line of Cook Inlet from Ninilchik to Nikiski are some of the Kenai Peninsula’s oldest businesses. Many of these commercial fish camps are still owned and operated by the families that started them two or three generations ago. KDLL’s Shaylon Cochran has a closer look at the family traditions that are at the center of the culture of setnetting.
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300 Villages: Wiseman
This week on AK, we're heading to Wiseman, a tiny community in Alaska's high Arctic. Jack Reakoff lives in Wiseman Alaska.
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Dispute Brews Over Chugiak Landfill Plan
A fight is percolating over a planned solid waste storage project in Chugiak. Eklutna, Inc, the Alaska Native corporation there, has requested Municipality of Anchorage approval to create a site for what the corporation is calling an "inert waste monofill" , but outraged neighbors are calling a "garbage dump".
Wrangell Sawmill Burns
One of the last major sawmill operations in Wrangell has been destroyed by fire. Mike Allen Enterprizes burned to the ground in Tuesday’s mid-afternoon fire at 13 Mile Zimovia Highway.
Anchorage Market’s Lease Renewed for One Year
The Anchorage Community Development Authority voted unanimously Monday to extend a lease agreement for the city's weekend market. 13 people testified.
Archaeologists Uncover Pre-Contact Inupiat Village Near Kiana
A team of archaeologists from Brown University have uncovered a Native village site in Northwest Alaska that dates from just before first contact.
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Legislative Task Force To Perform Educational Review
The state spends nearly $2 billion on its public school system every year, but despite that, districts across Alaska come up against layoffs and strapped budgets. Now, a newly formed legislative task force plans to review the state of Education in Alaska.
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Bill Walker Announces Plans To Run For Governor
Republican Bill Walker announced plans today to run as an unaffiliated candidate for governor next year.
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Study Finds Increasing Wildfire Frequency
A new study finds evidence of increasing wildfire frequency. University of Illinois Ph.D. candidate Ryan Kelly’s project analyzed drill cores from the bottom of lakes in the Yukon Flats. The cores provide a record of sediment accumulation dating back 10,000 years, including charcoal particles deposited by wildfires.
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Researchers Study Micro-Nutrients Of Aquatic Ecosystems
A researcher in Bristol Bay is working to better understand the micro-nutrients that are essential for aquatic ecosystems. Salmon are well known to be a big source of the nutrients, but scientists are learning that a slightly less delicious organism plays a huge role in the health of salmon-producing streams and lakes.
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Fairbanks Residents Speak Out On LNG Service Applications
Fairbanks residents turned out strongly earlier this week to speak out on natural gas service applications. The Regulatory Commission of Alaska held a hearing as part its review of applications from Fairbanks Natural Gas and the borough’s Interior Gas Utility.
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‘Not Dead Yet’: Living With Terminal Cancer
Dawn Dillard never wanted to retire. The 57-year-old expected to keep working as a public advocacy lawyer until she turned 100, but last year, a diagnosis of uterine cancer forced her into retirement. Now her full time job is fighting terminal cancer. And she says even if the disease kills her, she doesn't want it to defeat her.
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Young Votes With Majority On Student Loan Bill
U.S. Rep. Don Young has voted with the majority in passing legislation to reduce borrowing costs for millions of college students.