Alaska Supreme Court rules against mandatory parental consent for abortions
The Alaska Supreme Court has ruled against a law which would have required girls sixteen years of age and younger to get parental consent...
Kuskokwim 300 no stranger to severe weather
In nearly four decades of competing, K300 mushers have endured everything from brutal cold and bare tundra to hard ice and heavy overflow. But this year, Bethel is experiencing its warmest winter ever - so warm that officials have had to contract and repeat the route to avoid open water.
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‘What the pink!?’ Has breast cancer activism veered off course?
Karuna Jaggar wants to provide a counter narrative to the pink ribbon culture, also known as the “tyranny of cheerfulness.” Jaggar is executive director of Breast Cancer Action, a national education and advocacy organization. She was part of a panel that toured Alaska called “What the Pink?!”
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Volunteers work to restore the amphibious plane, the Grumman Goose
Since 1992, volunteers with Ketchikan’s “Save the Goose” project have been working to restore a historic amphibious plane. The Grumman Goose restoration is about 85 percent complete and now those involved are trying to find a permanent home for the plane. They believe they may have found the right place. Download Audio
NPFMC Addresses Chinook Bycatch
This week, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council has been looking at ways to cut back on the number of Chinook salmon that get scooped up by commercial trawl boats in the Bering Sea. The goal is to send more salmon back to subsistence users around the state.
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Alaskans we’ve lost to COVID: James Elliot Fisher, beloved father and attorney
James Fisher was elected to Alaska's first Legislature in 1959. His children say he was patient, considerate and kind.
Olympic Flame Travels By Dogsled
The Olympic flame traveled by dogsled through the capital of Chukotka in Russia earlier this week. The torch was carried by Russian musher Mikhail Telpin.
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Coast Guard Commandant Lays Out Arctic Plans
The most powerful icebreaker in the world is now being built, and it will belong to China. That was among the revelations made by a worried Coast Guard Commandant to a U.S. Senate hearing Friday.
Tiny beetles threaten spruce trees and homes in Alaska
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Take a flight over the Mat-Su valley, the Anchorage Bowl, or the Kenai Peninsula and you may notice areas that were once evergreen, but...
Lawmakers to Pebble: Why not file already?
The proposed Pebble Mine was Exhibit A at a hearing in the U.S. House this morning. The Republican-led hearing was supposed to be a critical look at environmental regulation, but the focus shifted as lawmakers of both parties kept asking the same question: Why hasn’t Pebble filed for its permits yet? Download Audio
Peer teachers make big difference in Service High School special needs classes
Public education plays a pivotal role in the lives of special needs students throughout the state. And a lot of their success is determined by confidence. Listen now
Sullivan joins measure knocking House for impeachment inquiry
Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan said the House's current impeachment inquiry is more partisan than the process faced by presidents Clinton or Nixon.
Pizzeria in Bethel sells the city’s first legal alcohol in 40 years
Legal alcohol sales have come to Bethel. Fili’s Pizza restaurant received its first alcohol shipment and began selling beer and wine when the eatery opened at 11 a.m. Friday.
Southeast Alaska May Have Seen Economy Improve Last Year
With some notable exceptions, the overall economy of Southeast Alaska may have improved in the last year.
Robert Woolsey, KCAW - Sitka
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Parnell Eyeing Ways To Further Advance Gas Line
Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell says an all-encompassing fiscal package for a major natural gas pipeline project isn't expected next year. Parnell had said that if companies met his milestones for progress on a line, the 2013 Legislature could take up gas tax legislation.
Witnesses say petitions to repeal Alaska’s election system were mishandled
The trial opened Monday in a lawsuit seeking to block a ballot measure that would repeal ranked choice voting and restore partisan primaries.
Alaska New Nightly: January 27, 2015
Obama Withdraws 9.8m Acres of Arctic Ocean; Invoices, Invitations, Litigation, and Even Secession: Walker Says All Responses Possible To Arctic Drilling Decision; Cook Inlet Gas Considered To Relieve Interior Alaska's Energy Costs; Sullivan: Alaskans Dream Big, Breathe Air 'Bathed in Promise'; Proposed ASD budget includes 24 new teachers; Delta To Add Year-Round Competition In Juneau, Fairbanks; Unalaska Locals Hope Proposed Watershed Fixes Are First of Many; Walker Says Rupert Terminal Will Be Rebuilt; AMHS To Close Ferry Bar Service This Winter
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Alaska News Nightly: Monday, Jan. 25, 2016
Richter scale a poor measure of localized shaking; 4 homes lost to gas fire after Cook Inlet earthquake; Senate to take up energy modernization bill; Sullivan moves to halt proposed ban on predator control in Alaska refuges; Denali Park proposes to better protect wolves; Plans announced for new state Public Integrity Unit; Redington first in Northern Lights 300, despite quake; Inupiaq tattoos to make big screen at Sundance
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Proposed initiative would move Legislature to Anchorage
Attempts to move Alaska’s capital historically have failed due at least in part to the cost. There has been only one previous initiative to move just the Legislature — to the Matanuska-Susitna Borough in 2002. It failed by a two-to-one margin.
University of Alaska students may see 10 percent tuition hike over next two years
University of Alaska officials are considering a 5 percent tuition increase in each of the next two academic years. Listen now