Without Troopers, Girdwood Looks For New Law Enforcement
At the end of the year, Alaska State Troopers says it will close their post in Girdwood. The town’s quest to court a new source of law enforcement is off to a rocky start.
Download Audio
Anchorage’s homeless community endures 6th death in two weeks
Another member of Anchorage's homeless community died early Tuesday morning. It's the sixth such death in the last two weeks.
Download Audio
Murkowski Fends Off Thorny Add-Ons to Energy Bill
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s big energy policy bill, if it passes, would be the first since 2007. Several national energy bills have washed up on the rocks since then. Murkowski’s strategy is to keep controversies out of the package, and it was tested at a Senate Energy Committee meeting this morning.
Download Audio
Wet Weather Gives Wildland Firefighters An Edge
The statewide wildfire response that’s been operating at peak for more than a month is ramping down. Wet weather over areas of the interior has calmed many fires.
Download Audio
As Subsistence Foods Become Scarce, Kivalina Celebrates A New Store
It's been a festive day in the northwest Arctic community of Kivalina today as residents celebrate the grand opening of a new store. It's an end to eight months of struggle with limited supplies after Kivalina's store burned to the ground last December.
Download Audio
Teachers’ field trip: Lessons from the Mendenhall Glacier
“Teacher training” usually means spending time in a library with textbooks and PowerPoints. But for 13 Alaska educators last week, it meant hopping on a helicopter, donning crampons and toting an ice ax on top of the Mendenhall Glacier as part of Discovery Southeast’s Teacher Expedition. I was invited to tag along.
Download Audio
Watzituya: Naknek’s One-Stop Shop for Nets, Coffee, Counseling
At the Watzituya net shop, Bristol Bay fishermen find a warm cup of joe and a welcoming ear.
Download Audio
VA Secretary to Visit 49th State
Alaska can expect another high-level Washington visitor next month. The Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Robert McDonald, plans to come to the state for several days starting Aug. 11.
“Alaska’s Global Economy: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going”
Featuring Margie Brown, former President & CEO, CIRI; Larry Cash, President & CEO, RIM Architects; and Dr. Rashmi Prasad, Dean, College of Business & Public Policy, University of Alaska Anchorage. Moderated by Dr. Paul Dunscomb, professor of East Asian history at UAA.
Listen Now:
Federal laws have banks turning away marijuana businesses
Federal laws tying marijuana money with money laundering has banks turning away marijuana businesses.
Wreckage of crashed Alaska sightseeing plane recovered
The wreckage of a sightseeing plane that crashed near Ketchikan last month, killing all nine people onboard, has been recovered.
Woman fatally shoots herself outside Seward prison
A woman is dead after corrections officers say they saw her shoot herself in the head when the prison didn't meet her demands for inmates to be released.
Alaska News Nightly: Monday, July 27, 2015
Elections Director Resigns Abruptly at Lt. Gov's Request; Berkowitz Transition Report Draws on Community, Corporate Solutions Alike; Erosion Along the Matanuska Continues to Imperil Homes; Dead Fish, Wildlife In Aleutians May Be Victims Of Toxic Algae Outbreak; Forgiving Without Forgetting: A Tlingit Village Up in Smoke; Denali Wolf Hunt Nears Opening, Despite Low Population Numbers; Groups Seek Halt to POW Wolf Hunting, Logging
Download Audio
Division of Elections director resigns at Lt. Governor’s request
Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott has asked the state's Division of Elections director Gail Fenumiai to resign. Claire Richardson is special assistant to Mallott. She says they accepted Fenumiai's resignation on Friday.
Download Audio
Berkowitz Transition Report Draws on Community, Corporate Solutions Alike
The Berkowitz Administration released an ambitious set of policy aims for Anchorage over the next three years, many representing a dramatic departure from the last administration's approach to the same problems.
Download Audio
7 Homes Imperiled By Erosion on the Matanuska River
The state Department of Transportation is taking emergency action to start work on protecting the Glenn Highway from Matanuska River waters North of Sutton. State Representative Jim Colver says he viewed the damage from river erosion Monday, and has requested emergency help from DOT.
Download Audio:
Dead Fish, Wildlife In Aleutians May Be Victims Of Toxic Algae Outbreak
Scientists have been receiving reports of dead and dying whales, birds and small fish in the Aleutian Islands. They think it might be from toxic algae proliferating, thanks to unusually warm ocean temperatures.
Download Audio
Forgiving Without Forgetting: A Tlingit Village Up in Smoke
In 1962, the Douglas Indian Village was set ablaze to make way for a new harbor. This month marks 53 years since the city displaced households of Tlingit T’aaku Kwáan families. Little to no restitution has ever been offered.
Download Audio
Denali Wolf Hunt Nears Opening Despite Low Population Numbers
Wolf hunting season is scheduled to open next month in and around Denali National Park, despite record low wolf numbers. This spring, Park biologists counted fewer than 50 Denali wolves, heightening a long running battle over the popularly viewed animals.
Download Audio
Groups seek halt to POW wolf hunting, logging
Citing a state study that shows a sharp decline in the wolf population on Prince of Wales Island and surrounding islands, six conservation groups have asked state and federal officials to take steps to help preserve the remaining animals.
Download Audio