Alaska state school board supports barring transgender female students from girls’ sports
The Alaska State Board of Education has approved a resolution that supports barring transgender female students from participating in girls’ sports.
Hometown Alaska: Mutual Aid Network of Anchorage
This week on Hometown Alaska we're joined by Erin Baldwin Day, lead organizer of Mutual Aid Network of Anchorage, to find out about the grassroots, community-minded organization filling gaps other groups cannot meet.
House special committee takes up PFD question
Rep. Ben Carpenter, R-Nikiski, co-chairs the House Ways and Means Committee, which helps set Permanent Fund Dividend checks' amounts.
New Alaska education commissioner appointee declines job
Susan McKenzie has declined the role of commissioner for the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development.
Cut emissions quickly to save lives, scientists warn in a new U.N. report
World leaders already have many options to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and protect people, according to the United Nations report.
Anchorage Assembly sues Mayor Bronson to force disclosures about former health department head
Several Assembly members previously accused the administration of using confidentiality to hide the lackluster investigation from the public.
Anchorage voters to decide on using marijuana taxes to fund early education, child care programs
Proposition 14 would specifically allocate Anchorage marijuana tax revenue to child care and early education initiatives.
Furor over mail-in voting fades as Anchorage prepares for April election
It peaked in 2021. Anchorage’s election administrator thinks increasing transparency around election operations has helped settle the public’s concerns.
How understanding hibernation can help improve human medicine | Alaska Insight
On this episode of Alaska Insight, host Lori Townsend is joined by Dr. Kelly Drew and Dr. Oivind Toien, two researchers at the University of Fairbanks Alaska who are looking at the possible medical applications of understanding hibernation.
As coastal erosion pulls rural Alaska communities into the sea, new research seeks solutions
For years, coastal Alaska communities have contended with erosion. A growing field of research explores ways to address the problem.
Haines store has milk run after ordering error
The owner of Olerud's Market Center in Haines is offering surplus milk from the accidental eight-pallet order at a discount.
Anchorage man wins 2023 Iditarod Trail Invitational
Miron Golfman crossed the finish line of the Iditarod Trail Invitational in downtown Nome at 12:51 p.m. Wednesday.
‘A guilty mind’: Sitka woman gets 4 years in cyclist’s hit-and-run death
Brooke Mulligan, 21, pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide in Terry Carlson, Jr.'s death — which the judge called closer to manslaughter.
Aleutians volcanoes now pose lower threat, after quakes slow
Diminished earthquake activity led authorities to reduce warning levels at two volcanoes on an uninhabited island in Alaska’s Aleutian chain.
Bob Penney, KRSA founder, dies at 90
Kenai River Sportfishing Association founder Bob Penney died earlier this week at his winter home in Indian Wells, Calif.
Student leaders speak out against Dunleavy’s parental rights bill
Student advisors to the state Board of Education spoke out against what Gov. Mike Dunleavy calls his “parental rights” bill Wednesday.
Murkowski, Peltola tell ComFish more needs to be done about ‘crisis’ levels of species decline
The lawmakers discussed the challenges faced by Alaska’s fishermen in a remote address to Kodiak’s annual commercial fishing trade show.
‘Back to one meal a day’: SNAP benefits drop as food prices climb
One analysis shows payments are dropping by about $90 a month on average for individuals, or $250 or more for some families.
State lawmakers join call to feds to intervene in Canadian mining upriver of Alaska
Southeast Alaska lawmakers are joining requests seeking to stop British Columbia’s mining activities in transboundary watersheds.
Alaska senator’s fight to regulate ‘forever chemicals’ gets a boost from new federal standards
PFAS compounds, known as “forever chemicals” because they don’t break down in the environment, have been linked to cancer.