Alaska News Nightly: December 13, 2011

Bethel Judge Again Under Fire For Questionable Behavior, Court Upholds Alaska Tribal Government Sovereignty, APD Investigating Shooting Of Toddler, Ft. Wainwright Aviation Unit Returns to Fairbanks, USPS Delays Post Office Closures, UAF Union Organizing Hits Stumbling Block, Estimated $24 Million Needed To Repair Nome-Council Highway, Outside Forces Present Challenges For Alaska Economy, Ship’s Return Pushes Million-Passenger Mark, BBNA Set to Plan Regional Transit

Alaska News Nightly: December 14, 2011

Norton Sound Health Aides Prepare To Go On Strike, Behavior Risk Survey Moving Work Out-of-State, Alaska Soldier Dies in Virginia Helicopter Accident, Congress Wrestles With Payroll Tax Holiday Funding, Popular Beach May Have High Mercury Levels, Ft. Wainwright Losing 62 Civilian Jobs, National Group Supports ANWR Development, Chenault Speaks On Alaska Gas Line Project, Big Chunk Super Project Near Pebble Deposit, Subsistence-Only Herring Zones Proposals Fail in Sitka

Alaska News Nightly: December 15, 2011

Parnell Sends Legislature His Budget Plan for Next Year, Senate Confirms Judge Morgan Christen, Spending Bill Proposes Pipeline Office Cuts, Potential Norton Sound Health Aides May Result In Job Loss, ASD Superintendent Search Down To Two Finalists, NPFMC Considers Requiring Active Participation for Crab Fishery, ACMP Initiative Sponsors Frustrated By Delays, Dupre Back For Second Solo Denali Attempt, The Great Christmas Tree Challenge is Underway in Bristol Bay

Alaska News Nightly: December 19, 2011

US House Republicans Plan To Reject Payroll Tax Cut Extension, ConocoPhillips Receives Permit To Access NPR-A, Japan Tsunami Debris Arriving on West Coast, Pieces Coming Together For Historic Nome Fuel Delivery, ‘Occupy’ Protests Have Unexpected Impact In Wrangell, Herring Limit Jumps After ADF&G Adjusts Ages, Fourth Chinook Predicted in Southcentral, Nikiski LNG Plant Gets Reprieve, BBNA Preparing Transit System Plan

Alaska News Nightly: December 20, 2011

TransCanada, Exxon Mobil Hold Off On Filing Resource Reports, Mysterious Seal Disease Gets 'Unusual Mortality Event' Designation, NPS Banned From Spending Money On Yukon Charley Law Enforcement, Ethics Committee Clears Rep. Young Of Alleged Violations, APOC Issues Decision On RBG Bush Planes Investigation, Petersburg Drops Redistricting Challenge, Pacific High Plans Include Commons, Roof Garden, Bethel Volunteers Raise $2,000 Towards Swimming Pool

Alaska News Nightly: December 21, 2011

Eight Charged In Death Of Stryker Brigade Soldier, EPA Issues New Mercury Emission Regulations, Ruling Expected On Atka Mackerel, Pacific Cod Restriction Roll Backs, Capital Budget Proposes Southeast Boat Harbor Improvements, Groups Still Seeking Holiday Donations, Child Advocates Work to Support Senate Bill 3, Strange Weather Expected To Give Way For Traditional Temperatures Soon, Ester Residents Approve Ultra-Efficient Library Design, ‘Mass Wasting’ Event Destroys Popular Sitka Trail,

Alaska News Nightly: December 22, 2011

Coast Guard Cutter Will Break Ice For Nome Fuel Delivery, Slower Internet Likely To Persist In Rural Alaska, Anchorage Storms Cause Widespread Electric Utility Damage, FEMA Makes Disaster Funds Available To Alaska, Jeff King Wins First Race Since Coming Out Of Retirement, GIFT Draws 5,000 In-Need Families, Rep. Gara Pushes For Laptop Donations For Foster Kids, Fairbanks Awards Contract To Investigate Local LNG Distribution Expansion, Leaders Look To Improve Southeast Economy

Alaska News Nightly: December 23, 2011

Bill Proposed to Protect Seniors’ Finances; Bristol Bay Seafood Processing Sector Continues Consolidation; Trooper Investigating Savoonga Man’s Death; Coast Guard Cutter Returns to San Diego; Winter in Alaska: Perfect for Ice Fishing; “Muktukmas” Celebrates Sharing, Caring and Food!; AK: Getting Ready for Christmas in Aniak; 300 Villages: North Pole

Alaska News Nightly: December 26, 2011

State Gives $1.5 Million To Support Suicide, Substance Abuse Prevention In Southwest Alaska, Mushers Add Another Alaska Race To Schedule, Federal Definition Of Homelessness Finalized, Budget Would Put New Trooper Helicopter In Fairbanks, Japanese Tsunami Flotsam Appearing In Kodiak Waters, Panel Discusses NPFMC Process, Year In Review: Washington DC, Nome and Sitka

Alaska News Nightly: December 27, 2011

Judge Releases BP From Probation For 2009 Spill, Man Faces Four Charges For Injecting Teen With Heroin, Part One: Health Care In Alaska, ACS Lowers Annual Shareholder Dividend By 77 Percent, RuralCap Working On Rural Energy Saving Upgrades, ‘Community Asset Building Initiative’ Gets $2 Million For Expansion, Northern Southeast’s Sea Otter Population Growing Slower Than Southern Region, Year In Review: Juneau, Dillingham and Fairbanks

Alaska News Nightly: December 28, 2011

Russian Tanker Waiting On Jones Act Waiver, Missing Bethel Teen Found Dead, Karluk Manor Object Of Lawsuit Against Anchorage Municipality, National Parks See Visitor Increase In 2011, Part 2: Specialty Care Comes With a Big Price Tag in Alaska, Salvation Army Receives Unusual Donation, State Money Available For Those Looking For Future In Film, Adventurous Family Selling Book On Nomadic Lifestyle, Year In Review: Haines, Unalaska and Homer

Alaska News Nightly: December 29, 2011

Anchorage Port Director Announces Retirement, Susitna-Watana Dam One Step Closer To Reality, Cleveland Volcano Erupts, Girl Injected With Heroin Dies, Vitus Marine Waiting For Decision On Jones Act Waiver, EPA Begins Assessment Of Bristol Bay Watershed, Part 3: Urban Hospitals in Alaska Reap Huge Profits, State Gets Money For Efforts To Enroll Children In Public Health Care, UAF Returning Over 1,000 Union Organizing Letters, Year In Review: Nome and Anchorage

Alaska News Nightly: December 30, 2011

Russian Tanker Gets Jones Act Waiver, Teen Found Dead In Bethel Park Identified, Scientists Downgrade Cleveland Volcano Aviation Alert Level, Boeing Wins Missile Defense Contract, ADF&G Shows Interest In Bethel Subsistence Patterns, ‘Alaskan Wet Dog Race’ Set For 2013, Year In Review: Sitka, Anchorage and Juneau, AK: Crab Bait Radio, 300 Villages: Houston

Alaska News Nightly: January 2, 2012

Russian Tanker Renda Arriving In Dutch Harbor, Kivalina Residents To Vote On New School Location, Body Found On Beach West Of Nome, Southeast Charter Halibut Size Limit May Be Eased, Groups Push For Reconsideration Of Trident Seafoods Settlement Terms, Ocean Beauty To Keep Petersburg Plant Open, State Releases 2012 Forecast For Taku River Chinook, Denali National Park Lowering Entry Fee, New Online Tool Throws ‘Career Ladder’ Idea Out The Window

Alaska News Nightly: January 3, 2012

ACMP Initiative Backers Scramble To Get Signature, Russian Tanker Renda Set To Depart For Nome, Man Dies In Anchorage’s Karluk Manor, Some States, Federal Government Ponder Ocean Zoning, Legislation To Give Employers Tax Credit If They Hire A Veteran, Marge Baker Obituary, Boston-Based Firm To Help Design State Health Insurance Exchange, Sutton Residents File Complaint Against Coal Mine Development To DNR, Discovery Channel Debuts Show Set Near Homer

Alaska News Nightly: January 4, 2012

Governor’s Office Gets More Time To Release Palin Emails, ‘Occupy’ Protestors Maintaining Fairbanks Presence, Kivalina Votes To Building School At New Location, Renda Departs For Nome, Nome Fuel Delivery Costly For Government Agencies, Boeing Will Continue To Operate Fort Greely Missile Defense System, Kikkan Randall Takes World Cup Silver Medal, Rehabilitated Sea Otter Released In Homer, Group Runs Across US To Raise Naturopathic Awareness

Alaska News Nightly: January 5, 2012

Top Oil CEOs Meet With Gov. Parnell In Anchorage, Hawke Says Oil Meeting A Good Beginning, Obama Outlines Military Future, Alaska: High On Toxic Releases, Redistricting Battle Goes To Trial In Fairbanks, Right Whale Sighting Unusual For Kodiak Island Waters, Renda Completes Repairs, Heads Towards Nome, Jones Act Contains Provision On Passenger Transportation

Alaska News Nightly: January 6, 2012

New Bills Given To Legislature, Australian Company Wins Mat-Su Coal Lease Bid, Western Alaska Residents Receive State Assistance For Storm Repairs, Ft. Wainwright Training Center Named After Fallen Fairbanks Soldier, Renda, Healy Begin Moving Through Ice, AK: Sprouts, 300 Villages: Delta Junction

Alaska News Nightly: January 9, 2012

Investigating Officer Recommends Dropping Charges Against Leone, Accused Hoonah Shooter Declared Incompetent To Stand Trial, Cook Inlet Beluga Population Estimate Lower Than Previous Year , Cordova Braces For Another Storm, Renda Continues Slow Trip To Nome, Crab Tender Runs Aground In Unalaska, Chieftain Says No Road, No Mine , First of Two Superintendent Candidates Visits Anchorage, Dupre Abandons Solo Denali Ascent

Alaska News Nightly: January 10, 2012

Judge Rules Justice Department Can’t Withhold Young Investigation Files, Legislators Prepare To Tackle Oil Taxes, Seward Highway Closed Between Bird Point, Girdwood, Winter Storm Sinks Boats In Kodiak Harbor, Weather Closes Valdez, Cordova Schools, Ft. Wainwright Soldier Killed In Afghanistan, Bethel Judge Announces Retirement, Unalaska Storm Coats Birds In Ice, Group Sends Letter Of Intent To Sue Over Wishbone Hill, MIT Sharing Unique Program