News

All news stories, regardless of topic (local, statewide + national news stories, as well as Talk of Alaska, Alaska News Nightly, Alaska Insight, Alaska Economic Report). Some news stories may also have other categories marked, which will also put them on a subpage. Not all news stories will fall into a subpage.

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Seward’s Lydia Jacoby won’t swim at Paris Olympics

Jacoby took third during Monday's 100-meter women's breaststroke final in Indianapolis, then withdrew from the 200-meter Tuesday.
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Coalition of labor and Alaska Native leaders throws its weight behind Peltola

Alaska Jobs Coalition announced a $500,000 ad campaign. It's an independent expenditure group and doesn't have to disclose its donors.
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Trump announces his pick in Alaska’s U.S. House race: Dahlstrom

The former president chose Alaska's lieutenant governor over fellow Republican Nick Begich. Trump claims Begich has "Democrat tendencies."
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Chemists, curators and Chilkat weavers present findings on historic dye techniques

The research aimed to understand and recreate the striking yellow, black and blue-green color palette used in this sacred fiber art.
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Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly considers $38.5M Homer hospital bond

The bond would go towards acquiring land and much needed maintenance for South Peninsula Hospital.

LaFrance names municipal attorney, announces new chief administrative officer position

The new position of chief administrative officer will oversee the city’s human resources and IT departments, as well as purchasing and financial functions.

Federally funded heat pumps are coming to Prince of Wales Island

Spruce Root partnered with Alaska Power & Telephone to secure the $2.5 million award, which will also support a technician training program.
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Half of U.S. military bases in the country are in ‘health care deserts’

For hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops and their families, when the Pentagon orders them to find health care off base there is none.
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Relatives of King Cove couple killed in suspicious Anchorage fire await answers

Niece Amy Carlough says James and Kathryn Gould, who were killed in the February fire, ran a general store in King Cove before their deaths.

He made his mark in Alaska. Now a new book looks at the life and death of legendary snowboarder Craig Kelly.

Both in the Lower 48 and Alaska, pioneers like Craig Kelly got people to even take snowboarding seriously as a sport at all.
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Alaska has a new nonprofit newsroom in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough

Mat-Su Sentinel founder, editor and reporter Amy Bushatz has worked in news for more than two decades and said she aims to fill a local news void.
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Deconstructing fad diets | Line One: Your Health Connection

Join host Dr. Justin Clark as he discusses the good and the bad of the current fad diets on this Line One.
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State sues Alaska Motor Home after customers say they were swindled and harassed

Prosecutors say the company abruptly closed Friday without providing refunds, likely affecting hundreds of customers.
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Anchorage man charged with making false bomb threat at federal building

James Pearce, 40, is accused of falsely claiming he had planted bombs at seven Anchorage locations.
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As Alaska high court preps for correspondence school arguments, here’s what each side says

The state and plaintiffs submitted briefs outlining their arguments. They'll make their case during oral arguments set for June 27.
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An influx of chum salmon in the Canadian Arctic could be the same fish missing from Western Alaska

A recent study found that climate change is expanding salmon habitat into the Arctic, but the new fish aren’t exactly welcome in Canada.
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An Alaska energy blogger breaks down the looming, much-nuanced Cook Inlet gas shortfall

Erin McKittrick looked at a few different possible timelines related to the gas shortfall that utilities and producers say is coming.
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Anchorage Juneteenth festivities kick off this weekend

Juneteenth is recognized as the oldest African American holiday in the United States, and marks the anniversary of when the last American slaves were freed in Texas on June 19, 1865.

What medieval calligraphy taught this Eagle River lawyer | INDIE ALASKA

https://youtu.be/3z-Fs-TxsCw In this Indie Alaska feature from @PBS and @pbsdigitalstudios hear how Greg Henrikson, a lawyer in Eagle River, became fascinated with Medieval History and delved into medieval calligraphy...
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Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era federal ban on bump stocks

The Supreme Court has struck down the Trump administration's federal ban on bump stocks, declaring that the government exceeded its authority.