Dillingham and schools around Alaska roll out new PEAKS test
The Dillingham City School District started its annual statewide assessment in English language arts, math and science today. The testing window for schools around the state opened Monday and runs through April 28. This year schools are using PEAKS (Performance Evaluation for Alaska’s Schools). Listen now
UAA proposes cutting hockey, gymnastics and skiing
The teams would be eliminated next school year, and the move would save the university about $2.5 million annually.
Alaska asylum seekers are Indigenous Siberians from Russia
“These individuals were in fear, so much in fear of their own government that they risked their lives and took a 15-foot skiff across those open waters,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski said.
Court blocks Shell Arctic drilling plan
An injunction blocking Shell Oil from exploring for gas and oil in the Beaufort Sea has been upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of...
Updated budget requests would fund earthquake relief, cut school funds
One request includes cutting $20 million for public schools that lawmakers agreed to as part of the budget deal last spring.
Iditarod update: The trail gets shorter, and the race field gets smaller
The race director has chopped about 20 miles off this year's trail because of too much snow. Also, another musher has dropped out of the competition.
Wages are going up and so is inflation. Consumer prices have hit a 13-year high.
Consumer prices rose 5.4% in the 12 months ending in July, matching the highest rate of inflation in nearly 13 years. The cost of rent, food and gasoline continues to climb.
Trident Seafoods drops salmon prices due to flooding global markets
Trident Seafoods dropped the price for Alaska chum salmon this weekend, from 60 cents to 20 cents per pound for all fisheries.
Brent Sass is first Iditarod musher to leave race’s halfway point
All mushers in the nearly 1,000-mile race across Alaska must take three mandatory rest periods: a 24-hour layover at any checkpoint, an eight-hour layover somewhere along the Yukon River and another eight-hour layover at White Mountain, which is 77 miles from the finish line.
Alaskans owe less tax than expected for their PFDs because of energy relief payment
The $662 energy relief portion of the payout is not subject to federal taxes, according to a recent IRS announcement.
Troopers say 2 women found dead near Trapper Creek were murdered
One of the women was reported missing in late May after making a 911 call.
Legislature Enters New Session with a Focus on Energy
The Legislature goes into its annual session on Tuesday with a major focus on energy-related issues. Fuel development and supply, as well as...
Palin wows Republican National Convention
More than 40 million people watched last night as Governor Sarah Palin accepted the Republican nomination for Vice President in front of an...
Alaska Carrs-Safeway pharmacies offering $140 at-home COVID-19 test kits
Carrs and Safeway pharmacies in Alaska are now offering at-home COVID-19 test kits for $139.99 each, available in store or by mail delivery. Customers provide a saliva sample and then mail the kit to a lab using a prepaid FedEx label. Safeway Director Pharmacy Operations David Green said at-home testing won’t replace a community health response, but he hopes it provides some flexibility with the way people can get tested.
As deaths and cases rise, pressure grows on Dunleavy to mandate masks
Municipal and health care leaders are pushing Alaska GOP Gov. Mike Dunleavy to take a new approach to contain Alaska’s COVID-19 outbreak, as case counts rise, schools remain closed, businesses clash with customers over face coverings and hospitals warn that they're stretched thin.
‘Lift your spirit’: Alaska Native dancers dazzle at first Quyana performance at AFN in 3 years
Anticipation was high for the return to Quyana, after two AFN conventions in a row were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Here’s what’s on the agenda for the Alaska Legislature’s third special session
The special session starts on Monday.
How to keep your child safe from the delta variant
Some public health experts are also parents of little kids, and have to strategize to keep those too young to be vaccinated safe from getting or spreading the delta variant. Here are their tips.
These two Chugiak women are buying Skagway’s newspaper – for $20
Owner Larry Persily chose Gretchen Wehmhoff and Melinda Munson of Chugiak from 200 people who wanted to run Skagway's newspaper. They learned about the opportunity through an article in the Anchorage Daily News.
AK: High tunnel greenhouses on the Kenai Peninsula
Alaska, a farming capitol? It seems far-fetched, but it’s fast becoming a reality. In the last six years, a federal cost chare program through the USDA means giant greenhouses are popping up all over the state. Most of them can be spotted on the Kenai Peninsula. Listen now