Alaska News Nightly: August 29, 2008
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is Republican Presidential candidate John McCain's choice for Vice President
Alaska's back in the national spotlight and will now be a...
State Drops Militia Charges; and the Natural Gas Pipeline
The stories up for discussion this week are: state charges dropped against Shaeffer Cox; Alaska gas may go a different direction; Paul Coffey hired to push the Port of Anchorage project; Mark Avery challenged conviction; and shale oil development.
Can’t decide on Ballot Measure 2? Listen to this debate about the future of Alaska’s elections
This week on Addressing Alaskans we're hearing a debate about Ballot Measure 2, regarding ranked-choice voting and campaign finance disclosures. Proponents say Alaskans need more options and transparency in their elections. Opponents say the initiative would make voting unnecessarily complicated.
Out with the Old, In with the New
We've completed the first part of our transmitter upgrade project. Our old transmitter is being moved out and new ones moved in. We're...
Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, July 25, 2024
Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance identifies challenges facing the city. Plus, a Juneau health care facility for children in crisis closes.
Polar Bear Recovery Plan
New reports are painting a grim picture for the future of polar bears. Studies looking at climate change impacts clarify that without ice, polar bears will have difficulty surviving. Polar bears in Alaska are particularly vulnerable and at risk of disappearing. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have just released a polar bear conservation management plan that identifies arctic warming as the largest threat to the bear’s survival.
KSKA: Tuesday, July 7, at 10:00 a.m.
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Traveling Music 8-3-14
Traveling Music
Shonti Elder
8-3-14
Format:
Song Title
Artist / Composer
CD Title
Label
Duration
Let It Slide
Kane's River / Julie Elkins, David Thompson
Same River Twice
Snake River Records
3:11
Henpecked
Ben Winship / Ben Winship
One...
Preview: Talk of Alaska – Tue, Sep 18
Coming up Tuesday, September 18 at 10:00 a.m. on Talk of Alaska...
Alaska's many mystery writers must be doing something right, because a whole lot...
Iditapod: What the heck is happening?
We look at three major problems hitting Alaska's mushing community ahead of the Iditarod. The Anchorage Daily News' Tegan Hanlon and Alaska Public Media's Zachariah Hughes sit down with host Casey Grove to discuss the whirlwind of recent news, including a doping scandal, musher mutiny, and increasing pressure from animal rights groups.
AK: Artist finishes portrait collection of Juneau’s grittiest
As 2015 came to a close, Juneau artist MK MacNaughton finished a art project that portrayed 52 of her fellow community members—or, a portrait a week for a year. MacNaughton picked her subjects not for how they look, but for what they do, where they do it, and how hard they work at it.
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Alaska News Nightly: December 13, 2013
Oiled Birds Wash Ashore On St. Lawrence Island. Legislation Would Reject Pay Raise For Governor. Without Medicaid Expansion, Alaska’s Poorest Get Nothing From Health Law. Susitna Dam Funding Cut In Proposed Budget. Legislators Consider State Takeover Of School Health Plans To Lower Costs. Bethel Man Remembers Growing Up In Apartheid South Africa. AK: Ancient Shorelines. 300 Villages: Shaktoolik.
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LISTEN: With the death of George Floyd, America comes face to face with persisting racism
The killing of George Floyd by a white police officer is just the latest version of a story heard way too often in America. Eric Gardner, Breanna Taylor and Aumaud Arbery are just a few of the Black lives that have been cut short due to the entrenched, systemic racism persistent in American culture.
Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, July 9, 2015
Dept. of Revenue Report: Oil Tax Credits Are A Poor Investment; On A Mission in Australia, News Of Army Cuts Trickles In Via Family, Social Media; Bristol Bay Run Nears 20 Million Sockeye; UA System Presidential Candidate Promises to Listen and Share; Inside A Juneau Prison's Sex Offender Treatment Program; FLOTUS Wows Crowd at Native Youth Confab; Cleaning Alaska's Remote Beaches, One Piece of Debris at a Time
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Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, September 22, 2021
The COVID-19 surge pushes Governor Dunleavy to implement crisis standards of care for the entire state. Also, an investigation has found Alaska makes up a growing share of the country’s fatalities involving commuter, air taxi and charter flights. And a graduate studies program focuses on elevating Indigenous knowledge in science.
49 Voices: Zion Phillips of Anchorage
This week we’re hearing from Zion Phillips in Anchorage. Phillips is a UAA freshmen and president of UAA’s Black Student Union. Listen now
A Closer Look: Ballot Measure #1
On this week's A Closer Look, KSKA focused on Ballot Measure One which will appear on the August 24th state primary ballot. ...
Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, December 23, 2021
For the first time in 45 years, the Coast Guard will get a new icebreaker. Also, what a decline in caribou means for subsistence and sport hunters.
Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Oct. 16, 2015
Obama administration cancels offshore lease sales, citing lack of interest; Murkowski spotlights civic heroes at AFN; At AFN, protesters slam Murkowski's support for Arctic drilling; New joint tribal-state court established; Pease testifies, says confession was coerced; Juneau judge sides with trapper, but no damages awarded; Bethel puzzles over how to unclog a seriously frozen well; AK: Tlingit carver featured in small-town, large-scale Smithsonian project; 49 Voices: Martin Lee Woods of Kotzebue
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Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, Mar. 31, 2016
Sanders fan vs. ‘superdelegate’: Re-enacting a 100-year feud; ex-EPA official Phil North returns to U.S. for lawsuit between EPA and Pebble; Petersburg schools testing down due to Kansas cable debacle; Legislative council meets to discuss fate of LIO building; Alaska experiences second warmest winter in last 90 years; cost to apply for a marijuana permit? $50K. If you’re lucky; Palmer's Meat and Sausage fights to stay open; tractor falls in Tuntutuliak River causing oil spill; study evaluates economic impact of 'quiet recreation' on BLM lands; new high-quality digital Alaska maps available to the public Download Audio
Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, June 5, 2024
The Alaska gasline announces a step forward, but the project still faces skepticism. Plus, researchers improve flood forecasts in Juneau.