AK: Adventure-bound Juneau couple moves into $8,600 tiny house on wheels
A 1,200-square-foot house is considered small by today’s standards. But one Juneau couple is leaving their home for something with less than 100 square feet of livable space. They’re hitting the road, but that doesn’t come without sacrifice.
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Herbalist Beverley Gray explores health and healing with wild plants of the north
Herbalist and author Beverley Gray presents a journey through the Northern landscape using wild medicine plants of the boreal forest as the teachers of the sacred. Beverley shares her many years of experience gathering wild plants and weeds to use as food and medicines for the body, mind and spirit.
KSKA: Tuesday, July 14, at 2:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.
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FRONTLINE: Women Who Escaped ISIS
Hear gripping, first-hand accounts of women who escaped the brutal reign of ISIS in this episode of FRONTLINE. This hard-hitting film explores the lives of women who were held as sex slaves, the people who saved them and women who endured—and also enforced—ISIS’ harsh rules.
Western Civilization… a musical?
Midnight Sun Theatre in association with Anchorage Community Theatre presents another show from the repertoire of the always hilarious and sometimes enlightening Reduced Shakespeare Company. This time it's Western Civilization, the Complete Musical (abridged) running July 10th through August 1st at ACT. Director David Block and actor Alex Albrecht drop by the studio this week to let us know all about it.
KSKA: Friday, July 10, at 2:45pm
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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, July 8, 2015
Army to Cut 2,600 Soldiers from JBER; Ocean Acidification Threatens Shellfish Hatcheries; Fire Crews Scramble to Protect A Village on the Koyukuk; Nakeen Homepack: Processing Salmon With A Little TLC; POW Ferry Service Suspended; Brother Francis Shelter Fields Complaints About Bullying; A Pilgrimage To Minidoka: 'We Can See The Memories Slipping Away'
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Upcoming APTI Board Meeting: Thursday, July 9
The next APTI Board meeting will be held Thursday, July 9 at at 4 pm. The meeting will be held at the Elmo Sackett Broadcast Center, located at 3877 University Drive near the entrance to Alaska Pacific University.
The public is welcome to attend.
Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Shell Finds Fracture in Icebreaker Hull; Rep. Young Files an Amendment To Block ANWR Wilderness Plan; Alaska Ablaze: Fires Activity Puts State On Track For A Record-Setting Year; Report: Ketchikan Flightseeing Plane Was Equipped with Adequate GPS Tech; Berkowitz Hopes to Swing Knik Arm Funding Over to the Port of Anchorage; Homer Feels the Squeeze of State Budget Cuts; Some Juneau Whale-Watching Companies Commit To A Higher Standard; Historic WWII Bomber, Recovered in Nome, Offers Russian Twist to Iconic American Plane
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America’s Wildest Refuge: ANWR
Tucked into a remote corner of Alaska, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a place where wilderness is experienced on an epic scale. From forested lowlands in the south to the towering mountains of the Brooks Range and north to the coastal plains, this is where we can go back in time to see how the earth was before modern civilization.
Alaska News Nightly: Monday, July 6, 2015
Analysis of National Guard Records Released Under Walker Yields Few Significant Findings; From Alaska to Australia: A $23M Military Exercise Takes Flight; Missing Hiker Found Dead Near Juneau; Troopers Detain Man After Standoff in Selawik; Couple Missing from Denali Highway Found Dead; Juneau’s state flags display receives attention as nation debates Confederate flag; East Coast Theology School Selling Off Alaska Native Art, Feds to Investigate; Caribou Emigrate From Adak, Feds Struggle to Stop the Spread; Mt. Marathon Attracts A Deep Field of Competitors This Year
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American Masters: The Mysterious Life of Harper Lee
Uncover the mysterious life of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of To Kill a Mockingbird in AMERICAN MASTERS: HARPER LEE - HEY BOO. Emmy-winning filmmaker Mary McDonagh Murphy offers an unprecedented look at Lee’s life.
Algo Nuevo: July 5, 2015
Here’s the Sunday, July 5, 2015 edition of Algo Nuevo con Dave Luera — Something New with Dave Luera. If you have questions, comments...
Alaska News Nightly: Friday, July 3, 2015
Wade Hampton Census Area Gets A New Name; Coast Guard Cutter Sherman Returns To Port To Address Engine Trouble; Computers Aid Firefighting Efforts; State Fish And Game Officials Warn Of 'Rabbit Fever' Outbreak; Haines Assembly Approves Lower Cruise Ship Moorage Fees; UAF Addresses Water Quality Concerns; AK: Seward's Mount Marathon Race Hits The Century Mark
Fly Fishing
Fly fishing is not the easiest way to catch a fish, by a long shot, and most fly fishermen let the fish go after they catch it, anyway. Does that make sense? On the next Outdoor Explorer, we’ll find out.
KSKA: Thursday, July 9, at 2:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.
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49 Voices: Diane Timberlake of Anchorage
This week we're hearing from Diane Timberlake of Fairbanks.
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AK: Mount Marathon
All eyes are on the nation's July 4 birthday, but the date also marks the anniversary of an Alaska tradition. Seward's Mt. Marathon race, which takes place July 4 turns 100 years old this year. The race is a one of a kind, grueling, uphill run, and now it is the subject of a documentary film aimed at putting a face on the men and women who take the challenge.
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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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Challenges and successes for Alaska’s LGBTQ community
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision and legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. But in the same week, the rainbow flag was burned outside of Identity, Anchorage’s LGBT community center. In these fast changing times, what challenges and successes are the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities facing here in Alaska?
KSKA: Friday, 7/3, at 2:00 p.m. and Saturday, 7/4, at 6:00 p.m.
KAKM: Friday, 7/3, at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, 7/4, at 4:30 p.m.
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Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, July 2, 2015
Cross-Border Salmon Dispute Puts A Damper on Summer Troll Opener; Bristol Bay Sockeye: A Run on the Brink?; Berkowitz Emphasizes New Tone for a New Anchorage in Inaugural Address; Anchorage's 2014-2015 Snowfall Levels Lowest on Record; Alaska's Shoreline Erosion Rate Among Highest Worldwide; Parasite Plagues Some Yukon Kings; Hjalmar "Ofi" Olson, Bristol Bay Elder, Dies at 75; Sea Shanties, Scurvy, and a Sailboat Regatta Without Wind
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Traveling Music 7-12-15
Traveling Music
Shonti Elder
7-12-15
Format:
Song Title
Artist / Composer
CD Title
Label
Duration
Song for Ireland
Mary Black / Phil Colclough
Women of the World Celtic
Putumayo
4:55
The Parish of Dunkeld / The Curlew
Andy...