DNR Commissioner Sullivan Deployed To Afghanistan
Alaska Natural Resources commissioner Dan Sullivan is on his way to Afghanistan. Sullivan was recalled to active duty with the US military, according to DNR spokesperson Elizabeth Bluemink. His deployment began on Sunday.
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Governor Emphasizes Work On LNG Trucking Plan
Governor Sean Parnell is reassuring Fairbanks area residents that the state is working toward trucking North Slope gas to the interior, where residents are currently limited to oil and wood for heat. The legislature approved an over $300 million financing package this spring, and a number of companies have expressed interest in participating.
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Bethel Farm Now Accepting Food Stamps
The Bethel Farmer’s Market is accepting food stamps and offering a program that allows customers to double down their purchases.
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Southeast Redistricting Presents Challenges
Southeast Alaska’s new redistricting boundaries eliminate the possibility of at least one House election rematch. But they could lead to some other challenges.
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Northern Leader Heading To Bering Sea
One of the world’s biggest and most environmentally friendly cod long liners has begun its journey to Alaska. The 184-foot Northern Leader has left the shipyard, and after two weeks of work in Seattle, it should be fishing for cod in the Bering Sea in about a month.
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Big Wild Ride Coming To Talkeetna Tuesday
Endurance road bikers will be riding through a huge chunk of Southcentral and Interior Alaska as part of the 90-hour, 1200 kilometer Big Wild Ride. The race began at 11:59 last night.
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Getting the Kids Outside Year-round
Today we’re playing outside.
This play group calls themselves “Skedaddle,” and their purpose is to get the children outdoors together at least once a week. Even in the wind, rain and subzero temperatures.
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Orphaned Sea Otter Pups Recovering At SeaLife Center
A pair of Sea Otter pups turned in to the Alaska SeaLife Center as orphaned are doing fine now. The center says hand feeding the animals was quite a chore because they consume 25 to 30 percent of their body weight each day. They are being transitioned from formula to seafood. Agnes was found near Homer in April. Nutka was found in June on Kodiak Island.
Anchorage Teen In Critical Condition After Hit And Run
A teenager is reported in critical condition after being struck by a hit and run driver near the Huffman overpass early Sunday morning in Anchorage. Police are seeking the vehicle that struck Tevin George, 18, who was walking with a friend at the Seward Highway and Huffman.
I Am A Bush Pilot
Alaska bush pilot Willy Fulton is known for his experience flying to remote locations, and his direct, likable personality.
Fulton is also known as the pilot who last flew Timothy Treadwell, and ultimately came upon Treadwell's remains in Katmai National Park.
State Agricultural Covenants Questioned
The Matanuska Valley's Point MacKenzie area once was home to more than a dozen dairy farms, but these days, there are only two? one ? milk producers operating there. And about 14 thousand acres of cleared pastureland and hayfields are now catching the eye of those who see development potential in the former farmland. The debate over what to do with state agricultural land is growing louder, and some are pushing to change the rules that keep the land in farming.
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Fairbanks-Area Voters To File Opposition To Latest Redistricting Plan
Two Fairbanks area voters plan to file opposition to the latest state redistricting plan. Goldstream Valley resident Ron Dearborn and George Riley of Ester have contested redistricting board proposals in court from the start. Riley says their latest objections primarily focus on the re-alignment of two Fairbanks Senate Districts to make them more geographically and politically aligned.
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Volcano Screams Just Before Eruption
Volcano eruptions are pretty violent. Lava explodes into the air, ash plumes drop particles on nearby towns, and as a new analysis from Mount Redoubt’s 2009 eruptions shows, volcanoes can also scream right before they erupt.
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Man Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder In Fatal Fire
A 19-year-old Nunam Iqua man is charged in a house fire that killed three people, including a child, in the Southwest Alaska village.
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Evacuation Watch Lifted For Two Rivers, Pleasant Valley
Work will continue on the Stuart Creek wildfire east of Fairbanks, despite rainy weather.
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State Sets Record Low For Boating Fatalities
Usually a boating fatality story is a sad recounting of a life lost on the water. But not this story.
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300 Villages: Coffman Cove
This week we're heading to the Prince of Wales community of Coffman Cove. Misty Fitzpatrick is the city administrator for Coffman Cove.
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AK: Eyes On The Sky
For most Americans, local weather information comes from a variety of high-tech instruments. There's Doppler radar, digital thermometers and barometers, satellite images, weather buoys and more. But in Port Alexander, a small Southeast community, the daily weather report depends on two human beings.
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The Papa Pilgrim Episode
The limits of the last frontier took only a few years to close in on the notorious “Papa Pilgrim.” What at first appeared to be wholesome and righteous turned out to be the opposite. Now the whole story is out.
KSKA: Tuesday, 7/23 at 10:00am
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APD Identified Man Found Dead Near Sullivan Arena
The dead body in an area frequented by drinkers and homeless people near a recreational trail in Anchorage has been identified as Jacob Shavings, 44. Shavings was a resident of the Karluk Manor transition home for chronic alcoholics. No cause of death has been released yet but foul play is not suspected.