BP Announces $1 Billion Expansion On North Slope
BP today announced a billion dollar spending program for the North Slope. The company said this decision was made because of changes made in Alaska's oil tax. BP said some of the spending could come this year. Later BP plans to bring two more drilling rigs to the Slope by 2016 and says it is evaluating another $3 billion of development projects with its partners in the western end of the Prudhoe Bay area. And it says it is ready to start selling its natural gas.
Bringing Arts and Culture to Ship Creek
The Ship Creek area is mostly known for its fish and trains, but this group is hoping they can expand that.
Anchorage Community Works was founded by four friends who decided to renovate an old warehouse off Ship Creek Road for their building. The plan is for the building to be a shared workspace for local artists.
I am a Volunteer Ski Bum
Arctic Valley has been providing Alaskans with grassroots skiing since the 1940s.
Sitting next to an old military missile site, the ski area relies almost entirely on its volunteers to stay alive.
Athabascan Elder Katie John Passes Away
The Athabascan elder who was the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit that strengthened Native subsistence fishing rights in Alaska has died. Katie John passed away early Friday morning at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage. She was 97-years-old.
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Mat-Su Fire Destroys Cabin
A fire in the Matauska Susitna Borough has spread to 45 acres and destroyed one cabin in its path.
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Lawsuit Over Beluga Population Counts Settled In Court
A lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service has been settled in District Court in Anchorage. Native and environmental groups took issue with some of the math the agency used in calculating how many Cook Inlet Beluga whales would be affected by seismic testing for oil and gas.
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Judge Calls On Redistricting Board To Start Work
A state court judge says the Alaska Redistricting Board should immediately begin redrawing the state's political boundaries.
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Potential Challengers Eye Begich’s Senate Seat
The next U.S. Senate race in Alaska is still 18 months away. A number of Republicans have jumped in the race, or are publicly mulling taking on Senator Mark Begich in November 2014.
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Field Work For Gas Line Expected To Start Next Week
In an update to legislators on Thursday, Frank Richards with the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation explained that they're in the process of trying to figure out the safest places to lay down the pipe, which should stretch down from the North Slope to Southcentral Alaska.
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AK: Making Music
In a small white house at the end of gravel road near Anchor Point, Ray DeMeo has been making instruments in an attached workshop for nearly a decade. He carefully crafts violins, violas and mandolins, mostly from local wood, some of it found in his own backyard.
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300 Villages: Gulkana
This week, we're heading to Gulkana on the Richardson Highway north of Glennallen. Angela Vermillion is tribal administrator for the Gulkana Village Council.
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King Island And What It Means
It took a strong subsistence culture to live on King Island, and that culture is still remembered long after the island’s last occupants left in the 1960s. Now one artist believes the time has come to return to King Island. Meet Inupiaq poet and author Joan Naviyuk Kane, on the next Talk of Alaska.
KSKA: Tuesday, June 4 at 10:00am
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Discover Yourself at Clark James Mishler’s Portrait Alaska Exhibition
On a May afternoon while our spring blizzard was slowly melting, I sat in the atrium of the Anchorage Museum eating my sandwich and looking.
I was looking up and around at Clark James Mishler’s portraits of Alaskans. Old, young, tattooed, the local famous and infamous, were all staring down at me and I returned their piercing glances.
More. Copper River Personal Use Fishery Closed Due To Slow Run
Unusual weather in Alaska's Interior is causing a slowdown of an expected sockeye run on the Copper River.
Kulluk Hearing Wraps With Testimony From Tug Captain
The US Coast Guard is expected to wrap up its inquiry Thursday into what went wrong when the Shell drill rig Kulluk broke free of it's towline and ran aground in late December.
The US Coast Guard is expected to wrap up its inquiry Thursday into what went wrong when the Shell drill rig Kulluk broke free of it's towline and ran aground in late December.
On-Scene Coordinator Testifies On Kulluk
Wednesday, the federal on-scene coordinator of the Kulluk grounding incident testified to investigators that before the rig departed he was confident that Shell was doing a good job. Coast Guard Captain Paul Mehler said he wished he would have taken a closer look at the tug that was to tow the rig.
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89 Bears Killed As Part Of Predator Control Program
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game took 89 bears this month as part of a predator control program approved by the Board of Game last year. The efforts are meant to encourage the growth of a struggling moose population in Southwest Alaska.
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Galena Flood Waters Begin Receding
Floodwaters are subsiding at Galena, after an ice jam on the Yukon River broke up last night. State Emergency Operation center Chief Mark Roberts says the blockage began giving way around 8 p.m. The state isn’t expecting major flooding in the down river communities of Koyukuk and Nulato. Roberts says conditions are looking better than previously feared because of the way the ice and water are moving.
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Late Spring Triggers Fire Danger, Burn Bans in Southcentral, Interior
The National Weather Service issued a 'red flag' warning for portions of Southcentral Alaska on Thursday. And burn bans are going in effect around the state.
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Unusual Weather Causes Lull In Copper River Sockeye Run
Unusual weather in Alaska’s Interior is causing a slowdown of an expected sockeye run on the Copper River. On Wednesday, state Fish and Game fisheries managers issued a notice delaying the start of the Copper River personal use, or dipnet, fishery in the Chitina subdistrict. Mark Sommerville is the area management biologist in Glennallen. He says an unusually late breakup on the Copper and recent soaring temperatures are combining to create conditions that fish don’t like.
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