Hometown, Alaska: How Dogs Help Humans
You might have heard him huffing and puffing and wandering around the studio during today's program. In addition to Corey Aist of Alaska Search...
Hometown, Alaska: How to Create a Healthy Happy Home on Your Own
Managing a career, maintaining a home, affording daycare and raising a happy child - These are all things single parents have to deal with...
Hometown, Alaska: Starting Over
One workplace economist suggests that workers under 35 will look for jobs every 3 - 5 years, and those over 35 every 5 -...
Hometown, Alaska: Cook Inlet Environment
Cook Inlet surrounds Anchorage on three sides, providing us with salmon, Alaska’s largest port, wildlife such as beluga whales, and oil and gas. It’s...
Hometown, Alaska: U.S. Marines in the Pacific Theater of WWII
Taken in Normandy, France during World War II, Ira Rion (second from right) and three of the thirteen marines from his squad who survived...
Hometown, Alaska: Teaching in the Bush
Students in Elim, AK take a break from the classroom to venture outside to hunt for a Christmas tree last December. Photo from Nick's...
Hometown, Alaska: Public Art in Anchorage
A huge new public art project will become a keynote of downtown Anchorage when it is unveiled next week in front of the Anchorage...
Hometown, Alaska: Entrepreneurial Spirit
What does it take to become an entrepreneur?
Challenging economic times give birth to the entrepreneurs among us. On today’s Hometown, Alaska, two experts join...
Hometown, Alaska: South of the Border meets the Arctic
On Cinco de Mayo, many of Anchorage's Mexican restaurants are planning to celebrate. But what's it like to be a transplanted Mexican in...
Hometown, Alaska: Civility and Civic Discussion
What's wrong with civic debate? What has happened to civility, and can we restore respectful discussion in our community? Join host Charles...
Hometown, Alaska: Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Awards
Recipient of the Distinguished Artist Award, John Luther Adams speaking at the May 18 individual artist awards event. Photo is courtesy of the Rasmuson...
Hometown, Alaska: Cooking it Right
Summer is around the bend and dinner parties, BBQs and potlucks are on just about everybody’s calendar. Unfortunately that usually means lowering our...
Hometown, Alaska: Homegrown Tomatoes and Other Veggies
Tall cold frame used by Red Edge Design to grow tomatoes in. It is made of all recycled materials. Photo courtesy of...
Hometown, Alaska: Beekeeping in Alaska
There are beekeepers all over the state, and this is the time of year they take off the box covers and get buzzing. But,...
Hometown, Alaska: Good Summertime Reads
Let Hometown Alaska help you develop your summer reading list. Authors Dana Stabenow and Heather Lende, and poet and bookstore owner David Cheezem, will...
Hometown, Alaska: Public Transportation
The Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is sharpening the public focus on energy efficient living. The use of public transportation is...
Hometown, Alaska: The Human Toll of the Gulf Oil Spill
Photo courtesy NOAA: Workers replacing oiled pom-pons with clean ones along a beach in Louisiana.
Alaskans are 21 years out from the Exxon Valdez,...
Hometown, Alaska: Combating Sexual Assault in Alaska
For years, Alaskans have battled alarming rates of reported rapes and sexual assaults. Task forces have been formed, reports have been filed and still,...
Hometown, Alaska: Alaska's college baseball playoffs attract big league scouts
The times they are a 'changing fast, but one thing stays the same - the crack of the bat against a leatherbound ball, and...
Hometown, Alaska: The Mat-Su Colonists, 75 years later
The colonists used the train for eating and social events even after they had arrived and set up their tent city. Here they gather...