Bans on game harvest techniques currently under review
The Trump administration has directed the National Park Service in Alaska and the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge to reconsider bans on certain state allowed game harvest techniques. Listen now
How an Alaska fiber mill survived the pandemic, despite plummeting sales and low supply
Kate Wattum began operating her fiber mill business in Fairbanks in 2016. But it wasn't until 2020 that she felt like she'd hit her stride, turning raw animal fibers into yarn. Then came the pandemic.
No new nuclear facilities along vulnerable coasts, Alaska regulators say
Last year, Gov. Mike Dunleavy signed into law a bill that makes it easier for companies to place small, modular nuclear reactors in the state.
Thousands of federal firefighters face a looming pay cut. How much is up to Congress.
"We're going to finish this season out, but there's going to be a lot of people who don't come back," predicted one firefighter as federal pay remains low.
More COVID-19 cases at Goose Creek as outbreaks climb in Alaska prisons
Three-quarters of Goose Creek Correctional's 1300 inmates have active cases of COVID-19.
Thousands of summer workers are headed to Alaska from Outside, where the infection rates are higher
“This is a question about levels of risk that Alaska is willing to tolerate,” said Bryan Fisher, the incident commander for Alaska’s pandemic response.
Jury deliberations in the Ted Stevens trial on hold until next week
Jury deliberations in the trial of Senator Ted Stevens are ON HOLD. Judge Emmet Sullivan decided to send the jury home this morning, in...
Lawyer arrested, charged with smuggling drugs to jailed client
An Anchorage attorney and her client are charged with smuggling drugs into jail. Listen now
Two Bucks For A Turkey Huck
David Brabaw is clutching a frozen, 8-pound turkey in a pair of as-seen-on-TV Ove Gloves. He’s got a bowler’s stance as he eyes the pins at the end of the lane over the bird’s rump. There’s a hush as bird strikes the pins, then an eruption of cheers as the pins settle, including an ecstatic, guttural “YEAH!” from Brabaw — he got a strike. Brabaw’s not at a rowdy bowling alley, but on the eighth floor of Juneau’s State Office Building. He was one of a handful of state workers turkey bowling on Wednesday during the lunch hour. That unmistakable sound of bowling pins getting knocked around echoed up several stories of the building.
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State tries to figure out recruitment and retention problems
A government task force is putting the finishing touches on a study that is expected to show why the state of Alaska is having...
Legislative Session Starts with Ceremonial Formality
The first of the 90 days allowed for this year's legislative session on Tuesday passed quietly, mostly with ceremony and formalities that have to...
Corruption trial wading through jury selection process
Jury selection continued today for the corruption trial of former Alaska legislator Pete Kott.
David Shurtleff and Lori Townsend, APRN - Anchorage
Anchorage residents should not have gotten tsunami phone alert after Aleutian quake, warning center says
While the overlapping zones for tsunami alerts have, in the past, led to alerts in Anchorage out of an abundance of caution, the Tsunami Warning Center says the one that pinged some phones in Anchorage Tuesday night should not have.
Kotzebue declares disaster after back-to-back blizzards, power outages and boil water notice
Kotzebue and the Northwest Arctic Borough have declared a disaster after a series of massive snowstorms battered western Alaska.
After fears, crew of American Seafoods vessel tests negative for COVID-19 in Unalaska
Over 100 asymptomatic crew members tested positive on three of the seafood company's other factory trawlers.
Rare ‘Red Lightning’ Garners National Attention
A graduate student from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks has garnered national media attention after he posted photos of a rare lightning-related phenomenon to his blog.
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New science shows Sitka geologically separate from rest of Alaska
Sitka sits on a different chunk of the Earth’s crust than the rest of Alaska. Decades of scientific research have led to a report and map showing where the faults lie. The new information expands scientists’ understanding of what’s going on beneath Alaska’s surface.
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Anchorage Assembly chair: ‘The mayor’s administration is on fire. It’s burning.’
Mayor Dave Bronson continues to be mum about litany of dysfunction at City Hall and says he has not considered resigning.
UAA women prepare for national title game against Lubbock Christian
The University of Alaska Anchorage's women's basketball team is playing in the program's first-ever NCAA Division II national championship game on Monday, where the Seawolves will face off against Lubbock Christian in Indianapolis. Download Audio
Teenager arrested on four murder counts in Sitka
Jason Abbot, 18, was arraigned in Sitka superior court this morning on four counts of murder in the first degree and one count of...