Salmon in Indian River – Sitka, Alaska
Here's a short video of pink salmon, also called humpies, moving up the Indian River in Sitka to spawn--the same river they were born in two years earlier.
What you see is just a few feet of the river.
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Alaska News Nightly: October 16, 2013
Temporary Deal To End Federal Shutdown Expected To Pass; French To Run For Lieutenant Governor; Short-Staffed APD Goes High Tech To Combat Spiking Crime Rates; GCI, KTUU Work Out Temporary Agreement; Verizon Plans On Expanded Role Next Year; Discussion Touches On Unconventional Oil, Gas Development; Fairbanksan To Carry Olympic Torch At Pole; Kenai Peninsula Students Learn About Salmon Life Cycle
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The Role of Farms in Alaska’s Food Security
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Alaska News Nightly: October 15, 2013
Congressman Young Says Newest House Proposal Going Nowhere; Federal Shutdown Keeps Many Crab Fishermen In Port; Shutdown Could Mean Total Loss For One Biologist, Big Financial Hit For His Pilot; Newborn Baby Found Dead In Eagle River Park; Former DNR Commish Sullivan Announces Senate Run; Mallott Kicks Off Gubernatorial Campaign; ATV Decision Could Inform Pebble Mine Case; Bethel Gets Fish And Game Advisory Committee; Alaska Is Nationwide Leader For Healthy Births
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Flying Over Fall Colors
Paramotoring over Eklutna Lake and Twin Peaks near Anchorage, Alaska - the golden fall scenery is amazing in September.
Alaska News Nightly: October 14, 2013
Early Research On Karluk Looks Hopeful; Shelter Says 30 Days And You’re Out…If You Don’t Follow The Rules; Craig Fleener Announces Lt. Governor Run; Parnell Names Acting Public Safety Commissioner; Smoking Rates Decline Among Alaska Teens; The ‘Who’ And The ‘Why’ Of The Middle School Travel Ban; Alaska Guardsmen Deploy To Guantanamo Bay; Southeast Hospitals Face Expensive Upgrades
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Marge Ford’s Got a Squeeze Box!
Marge Ford has been playing, teaching, writing and performing polka music since she formed the Alaska Polka chips in 1977.
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Searching for the Moon Over Alaska
Today we’re searching for the moon. Saturday was International Observe the Moon Night, and a group of staff at the Anchorage Loussac Library celebrated it for their third consecutive year.
Linda Klein is the youth services librarian at the Loussac, and is running tonight’s event. Right now, she's using a butter knife to scrape off different amounts of frosting on several cookies, displaying each phase of the moon.
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Night Music: October 12, 2013
Here is the Night Music Playlist with Kirk Waldhaus. All tracks played are listed below in the following format:
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Artist / Composer (if known)
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Label
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8:00...
Traveling Music Octover 27, 2013
Traveling Music
10-27-13
Shonti Elder
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You're So Beautiful
Flight of the Conchords / Jemaine Clement, Bret McKenzie
Flight of the Conchords
Sub Pop
5:09
Quake of '89
Kathy...
Traveling Music: October 13, 2013
Traveling Music
Shonti Elder
10-13-13
Fund Drive
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Concerts promoted: Acapella Festivella, UAA, Thursday, Oct. 17, Wendy Williamson Auditorium; Eileen Ivers and the Anchorage...
Traveling Music October 20, 2013
Traveling Music
10-20-13
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Concerts next weekend: Saturday, Oct 26, Anchorage; Darrell Scott and Tim O'Brien, Wendy Williamson Auditorium (Whistling SwanProductions); Eileen...
Alaska New Nightly: October 11, 2013
Spokeswoman: White Powder Deemed Nonhazardous; Galena Residents Struggle To Navigate Assistance Programs; AVEC On Schedule For Bethel Utilities Company Takeover; Sealaska CEO Announces Retirement; Veniaminof Volcano Active Once More; UAF Scientists Land Grant For Most Extensive Pacific Walrus Research To Date; UAA Hockey Looks Forward To Fresh Start; AK: Float; 300 Villages: Kenny Lake
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Getting Tweens Outdoors
For outdoor families, it can be tough when children leave elementary school and suddenly don’t want to go outside anymore. There are plenty of exceptions, but middle school coaches and parents of tweens know that this is a critical age to keep young people going outside and active. We’ll be talking with parents and educators about how the outdoors can compete with the screen or the couch in the lives of tweens as we struggle to help them build independent lives that are healthy and active.
KSKA: Thursday 10/17 at 2:00 pm and 9:00 pm
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Allison Warden and Liz Medicine Crow
They come from different parts of Alaska and different Native communities. Their typical work day could not look more different. Both labor in the quest for a vibrant future for their people. Meet Allison Warden and Liz Medicine Crow, in conversation, on the next Hometown Alaska.
KSKA, Wednesday, 10/16 at 2:00pm and 9:00pm
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Not My Life: Slavery in Anchorage
The first human trafficking case prosecuted in the United States happened right here in Anchorage, Alaska. Not My Life is a documentary depicting the dehumanizing practices of human trafficking and modern slavery worldwide. The film was shown at Bear Tooth Theatrepub in Anchorage and followed by panel discussion on slavery in Alaska with Robin Bronen from the Alaska Institute for Justice, Michelle DeWitt from Tundra Women's Coalition, Jolene Goeden from the FBI and First Lady of Alaska, Sandy Parnell.
KSKA: Tuesday 10/15 at 2:00 pm and 9:00 pm
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Diversity In News Coverage
This year’s University of Alaska Anchorage Atwood Chair of Journalism is the first Native to hold the position. Alaska residents come from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds and the state is home to half of the nation’s tribes, yet most of the reporters in the state are white. Does this matter? What changes when there is more diversity in reporting?
APRN: Tuesday, 10/15 at 10:00am
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AK: Float
At 1.6 million acres, the Wood Tikchik State Park is the largest of its kind in the United States. With no road or trails, the park remains a quiet preserve for the fish and wildlife it was created to protect.
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Murder on the Nile at VPA
There's been a Murder on the Nile and no one's talking. Well, except for Todd Broste and Bethany Lawson, two actors from Valley Performing Arts production of the Agatha Christie murder mystery playing in Wasilla October 25th through November 10th. Listen this week on Stage Talk as they try not to give away too many clues as to who dun it.
KSKA: Friday 10/11 at 2:45pm
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Diversity In The Newsroom
My guest for today’s program is Mark Trahant, Mark is the University of Alaska Anchorage Atwood Chair of Journalism. Mark is the first Native person to hold the Atwood chair at UAA, and diversity in journalism will be part of the discussion today.
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KSKA: Friday, 10/11 at 2:00pm & Saturday, 10/12 at 6:00pm
TV: Friday, 10/11 at 7:30pm & Saturday, 10/12 at 5:00pm