Governor Palin to call for special session on oil profits tax
Tomorrow Governor Palin will announce her plans for calling a special legislative session this fall on action needed to deal with the Petroleum Profits...
Ketchikan advocates call for local, state and federal action to address opioid crisis
Deborah Asper, with the Ketchikan Wellness Coalition, says one part of the issue is the rise of strong, synthetic opioids.
Anchorage jail secretly, accidentally recorded attorney-client conversations
The Alaska Department of Corrections has revealed that it accidentally recorded conversations between lawyers and their jailed clients at Anchorage Correctional Complex. Listen now
Alaska Airlines Showcases Q-400
Alaska Airlines is showing off an aircraft it plans to start using in the state next year. The Bombardier Q-400 is scheduled for use on Fairbanks-Anchorage and Kodiak- Anchorage routes, where the 76-seat twin prop plane will replace or augment current service with larger 737 jets.
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Anchorage Mayor Candidates: Dominic Lee, Paul Kendall and Jacob Seth Kern
Dominic Lee (left), Paul Kendall (center), Jacob Seth Kern (right). Photos by Erick Cordero.
KSKA continues its series on the mayor candidates in the April...
Charter Boat Captain Convicted of Distributing Drugs
A Homer charter boat captain who pled guilty to distributing drugs to minors and possession of child pornography has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. The captain, 34-year old Randall Hines also will have to pay $160,000 in restitution.
Anchorage paramedic travels to Greece to help with rescues
Anchorage resident Teresa Gray just returned from volunteering in a refugee camp in Lesvos, Greece. Gray is a retired paramedic who was moved to volunteer for three weeks in January with a relief organization based in Ireland, after she saw the tragic and widely circulated photograph of a small refugee boy who died and washed up on a beach. Download Audio
Wrangell Seafoods might be closed by city council
The Wrangell city council is considering foreclosing on Wrangell Seafoods, Inc. (WSI). The company wrote several bad checks to the city and is delinquent...
GCI: Law enforcement investigating damaged fiber cable, outages
Alaska's largest telecommunications company, GCI, has blamed statewide outages over the weekend on intentional damage to a fiber optic cable in Midtown Anchorage. Listen now
Body of Missing Fairbanks Woman Found
The body of a missing Fairbanks woman was found yesterday. State Troopers report that Samantha Lee Randolf’s body was discovered near where her car...
Alaska Edition: Friday, July 18, 2014
Inmate deaths lead to hearing before lawmakers. The woes of Buccaneer Energy. The fight over who is responsible for the North Pole suloflane spill continues. The evolution of Alaska oil taxes. The North Slope haul road is in trouble from "a moving mass of frozen debris." An update on the US Senate race. A successful missile test over the Pacific increases the likelihood the Defense Department will send more missiles to Fort Greely. Headline; "Ex-Guard Chief Moves to Arctic Frontline." Who is he?
KSKA: Friday, July 18 at 2:00 p.m. and Saturday, July 19 at 6:00 p.m.
KAKM: Friday, July 18 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, July 19 at 4:30 p.m.
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ABC Board hires first Yup’ik investigator in 15 years
The Alaska Alcoholic Beverage Control hired a new investigator in early October. He’s the first Yup’ik investigator in 15 years, and maybe, the first ever.
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CSIS Holds Conference on Arctic Oil and Gas Development
In Washington D.C. on Tuesday, the Center for Strategic and International Studies or CSIS held a one day conference on Arctic oil and gas development.
Mat-Su voters favor Edna DeVries for borough mayor
Unofficial results from Tuesday’s election show DeVries with about 58% of the votes in a three-way race.
Alcohol taxes may jump 100% in Fairbanks
Fairbanks bars and restaurants say a proposed doubling of the city alcohol tax could drain their already thinning business. But mayor Steve Thompson says...
Legislators, others in Alaska State Capitol will be able to get vaccinated starting Friday
The Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium is offering the shots to the 450 people who work in the Capitol.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s interns took selfies with all 100 senators. Here’s what they discovered.
NPR's Scott Detrow interviewed two of the interns, Lillian Yang and Claire Moreland. Here's how they described some of the senators.
In Palmer teen’s murder, one of four convicted killers gets 99 years behind bars
Erick Almandinger, now 22, was just 16 when David Grunwald went missing in November 2016. It wasn’t until more than two weeks after the killing that one of Almandinger’s accomplices led Alaska State Troopers to Grunwald’s body.
Tongass in transition: Striking a chord with old growth trees
Alaska Specialty Woods uses salvaged trees to make instrument tops, which are shipped all around the world. This sustainable company still wants the timber industry to stick around.
What’s next for the abortion pill mifepristone?
Access to mifepristone, a medication that is used in about half of all abortions nationwide, hangs in the balance of two contradictory court rulings.