Sentencing begins in Anchorage hit-and-run cyclist case
The first segment of Alexandra Ellis’ sentencing hearing took place Friday afternoon in Anchorage. Ellis pled guilty to hitting and killing cyclist Jeff Dusenbury last summer, when she was 17. Many community members disagree with the plea deal reached by the state this spring.
Earthquake swarm hits Yakutat
About 30 earthquakes have hit the Yakutat area this week. The Gulf of Alaska city, about 250 miles northwest of Juneau, is in a fault zone and quakes aren’t unusual.
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Doyon Announces New Oil & Gas Prospect Near Nenana
Doyon plans to drill another oil and gas exploration well in the Nenana area. It will be the third the company has sunk into the oil and gas rich basin.
AK: Sitka Cirque Lassos Sitkans Into The Show
The circus is coming to Sitka, Alaska, but the performers aren't from out of town. They are ordinary citizens, who in the past two years, have learned to climb, swing, and soar. Led by an aerialist with roots in Alaska, Sitka Cirque is dreaming up a new kind of circus that provides as much thrill to the participants as it does to the audience.
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49 Voices: Zach Carothers of Portugal. The Man
Zach Carothers is the bass player for Portugal. the Man. The band formed in Alaska, but now resides in Portland. Currently, they're in LA recording material for their 8th studio album. Carothers says he originally played lead guitar, but his fellow band mates talked him into playing bass.
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Remapping Alaska
Flying blind. No Alaska pilot wants to, but sometimes it happens. And sometimes it’s not on an established flight corridor. A new terrain mapping effort is underway, and it's not just aviators who will benefit.
APRN: Tuesday, August 18, at 10:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.
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Warm water, low rivers killing fish in Anchorage, Mat-Su
Uncharacteristically warm water temperatures and low river levels are killing salmon and Arctic char in Anchorage and the Matanuska and Susitna valleys.
14-year-old taken to Fairbanks hospital after shooting
A 14-year-old boy is being treated for non-life threatening injuries at a Fairbanks hospital after he was accidentally shot.
Video: Great Pyrenees prove their mettle against a Dillingham brown bear
The Fox family on Aspen Drive in Dillingham had an unwelcome visitor one evening this week. Annie Fox filmed as their 2-year-old Great Pyrenees held their ground. Since Annie's mom Starla posted the video to the facebook page of the Kansas breeder they bought the dogs from, it's been viewed by tens of thousands of people, many of them great pyrenees owners.
Emergency Call from Wrecked Pilot Believed to Be From Sat Phone
Alaska State Troopers say they believe Seth Fairbanks made an emergency call with a Satellite phone when his Supercub crashed into Cook Inlet around midnight August 6. They also say their investigation reveals he called the non-emergency number for the Alaska State Trooper Post in Bethel, not 9-1-1.
Mat-Su Vets Rail Against VA During Secretary’s Visit
A listening session held Thursday night in Wasilla by the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs was dominated by complaints about the healthcare system for veterans in Alaska.
Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, August 13, 2015
Mayor Pulls the Plug on A Slow and Spendy Software Project; University of Alaska Defines Consent in New Student Conduct Code; Child Porn Suspect Arrested in South Carolina; 70 Years After WWII, Two Nations' Militaries Jump Side By Side; Anchorage Assembly Seeks to Add LBGT Clause To Anti-Discrimination Code; Bethel Council Nixes City-Run Liquor Store Vote in October; Permafrost Carbon Takes A Trip to Davy Jones' Locker; After More Than 30 Years, The Mendenhall Valley Library Moves Out Of the Mall; Happy 40th, Kupreanof! All 24 Residents Celebrate A Remote Alaska Lifestyle
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Mayor Pulls The Plug on A Slow and Spendy Software Project
A massive software project that's run millions of dollars and years over budget was halted today by Anchorage's new mayor. The move is meant to reexamine the city's path forward, but won't totally shut off money for the project.
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University of Alaska defines consent in new student code of conduct
The University of Alaska system has defined “consent” for the first time when it comes to sexual misconduct terminology. The definition is in the university’s new student code of conduct, which is the basis of university disciplinary proceedings. One expert calls the definition good, but thinks it could go further.
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Child Porn Suspect Arrested in South Carolina
Authorities have arrested the former computer network manager at the Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation who is accused of possessing and distributing child pornography.
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70 Years After WWII, Two Nations’ Militaries Jump Side By Side
Seventy years ago this month, the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, prompting it's surrender and the end of World War II. Now, the two nations' armed forces are collaborating in Alaska.
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Permafrost Carbon Takes A Trip to Davy Jones’ Locker
It’s been widely accepted in the science community that melting permafrost means more carbon in the atmosphere. But a new study has identified a quirk in that process.
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Bethel Council Nixes City-Run Liquor Store Vote in October
There will not be a vote this October for Bethel to go into local option status and pursue opening a city-run liquor store. The Bethel City Council by a vote of five to one rejected sending the vote to citizens.
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Happy 40th, Kupreanof! All 24 Residents Celebrate A Remote Alaska Lifestyle
Most people in Petersburg don’t give much thought to the handful of houses which sit on the other shore of the Wrangell Narrows. But to the people who live there it’s a place they are proud to call home.
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After More Than 30 Years, The Mendenhall Valley Library Moves Out Of the Mall
Friday was the last children’s storytime at a Juneau library branch that’s been in the Mendenhall Mall for over 30 years. The days of checking out books and grabbing a slice of pizza are over because the branch is moving to a new location at the end of the month.
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