Summer of Heroes: Honoring Alaska Youth
Alaska Communications is happy to announce the third annual Summer of Heroes program in partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs – Alaska.
The program recognizes five young Alaska heroes who are making a difference in Alaska communities.
Read more. Alaska News Nightly: June 3, 2013
BP To Increase Number Of Rigs On North Slope; Galena Looks Toward Recovery; Air Force Releases Draft EID Statement For Eielson F-16 Move; Juneau’s Carpenter Union Hall Shuts Down; Alaska Airlines Bids To Continue Service To Adak; Copper River Subsistence Opening Delayed 3 Days; Group Continues Push For Indoor Produce Growing Facility; Alaska’s Cultural Connections: Moving To The Mat-Su
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Alaska Cultural Connections: Adoption
As part of an on-going series on Alaska’s cultural connections, we’re taking A Closer Look at cross-cultural adoption. Last winter, Anchorage resident Sarah Gonzales and her husband adopted a beautiful healthy baby boy; they met him when he was one day old at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage. She shares her thoughts about how to integrate his birth culture in their family life.
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Bringing Arts and Culture to Ship Creek
The Ship Creek area is mostly known for its fish and trains, but this group is hoping they can expand that.
Anchorage Community Works was founded by four friends who decided to renovate an old warehouse off Ship Creek Road for their building. The plan is for the building to be a shared workspace for local artists.
I am a Volunteer Ski Bum
Arctic Valley has been providing Alaskans with grassroots skiing since the 1940s.
Sitting next to an old military missile site, the ski area relies almost entirely on its volunteers to stay alive.
Alaska News Nightly: May 31, 2013
Athabascan Elder Katie John Passes Away; Potential Challengers Eye Begich’s Senate Seat; Judge Calls On Redistricting Board To Start Work; Mat-Su Fire Destorys Cabin; Lawsuit Over Beluga Population Counts Settled In Court; Field Work On Gas Line Expected To Start Next Week; AK: Making Music; 300 Villages: Gulkana
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AK: Making Music
In a small white house at the end of gravel road near Anchor Point, Ray DeMeo has been making instruments in an attached workshop for nearly a decade. He carefully crafts violins, violas and mandolins, mostly from local wood, some of it found in his own backyard.
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King Island And What It Means
It took a strong subsistence culture to live on King Island, and that culture is still remembered long after the island’s last occupants left in the 1960s. Now one artist believes the time has come to return to King Island. Meet Inupiaq poet and author Joan Naviyuk Kane, on the next Talk of Alaska.
KSKA: Tuesday, June 4 at 10:00am
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Flooding Continues Throughout Alaska; And Kulluk Testimony Wraps Up
Flooding continues throughout Alaska. A suspect in an Anchorage double homicide and sexual assault has a significant criminal history and is a registered sex offender. The Coast Guard wraps up testimony in its probe into the grounding of the Kulluk.
KSKA: Friday, 5/31 at 2:00pm & Saturday, 6/1 at 6:00pm
TV: Friday, 5/31 at 7:30pm & Saturday, 6/1 at 5:00pm
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Discover Yourself at Clark James Mishler’s Portrait Alaska Exhibition
On a May afternoon while our spring blizzard was slowly melting, I sat in the atrium of the Anchorage Museum eating my sandwich and looking.
I was looking up and around at Clark James Mishler’s portraits of Alaskans. Old, young, tattooed, the local famous and infamous, were all staring down at me and I returned their piercing glances.
More. Alaska News Nightly: May 30, 2013
Aiviq Captain Questioned At Kulluk Hearing; On-Scene Coordinator Testifies On Kulluk; 89 Bears Killed As Part Of Predator Control Program; Galena Flood Waters Begin Receding; Late Spring Triggers Fire Danger, Burn Bans In Southcentral, Interior; Unusual Weather Causes Lull In Copper River Sockeye Run; Timber Communities Worry Over Fate Of Secure Rural Schools Program; Tesoro Fined For Clean Air Violations; State Searching For Potential Tustumena Ferry Replacements
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Miracle Months of Summer
Karen Nickoli is a playful 10-year-old from Russian Mission, a small Yup’ik village near Bethel. She woke up with a fever one day and found out she had cancer the next.
Providence houses the only children’s hospital in the state so Karen would be staying in Anchorage for her care. Scared and far from home, Karen and her mom could hardly wait for the rest of their family to join them.
Learn more. Alaska News Nightly: May 29, 2013
Ice Jam Slowly Breaking Up Near Galena; Coast Guard Helicopter Crash Survivor Denied Promotion; 2 Tanana Officials Indicted On Federal Wire Fraud, Theft Charges; UAA Fires Athletic Director Steve Cobb; State Ordered To Refund Federal Money; Civilian Department of Defense Workers Begin Receiving Furlough Notices; Alaska Lawmakers Pushing Back Against Federal Royalty Cuts; Former Marine Speaks About Military Toxins, Potential Health Risks; UAF Considers Adding Roller Ski Loop
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Veteran Spotlight: Jim VanOss
Jim VanOss is a U.S. Army Veteran, drafted during the Vietnam War who served as a military police officer and an embassy guard in Saigon during the Tet Offensive.
During his Veteran Spotlight interview, VanOss recalls being 20-years-old when he was drafted into the Army after failing a college class.
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Wood Bison Spurs Species Debate
Are Wood bison and Plains bison two different subspecies, or are they the same subspecies? That's a question that is raising some questions of it's own, now that a University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher has co-authored a paper that could affect the threatened designation of Alaska's Wood Bison.
Alaska News Nightly: May 28, 2013
Galena Flooding Forces Many To Evacuate; Educators Worried Summer School Cut Could Hurt English Language Learners; Type 2 Diabetes Rates Tripled Nationwide Since 1990; Anchorage Group Hosting Bone Marrow Registry Drives; UAF Researcher Contends Wood, Plains Bison Same Subspecies; Alaska Cultural Connections: Cultural Exchange
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Teri Rofkar Named 2013 Rasmuson Distinguished Artist
Sitka basket and textile weaver Teri Rofkar has been named the 2013 Rasmuson Distinguished Artist.
The $40,000 award recognizes an artist with stature and a history of creative excellence.
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Riding the Singletrack at Kincaid Park
Today we’re biking in Kincaid Park. The mountain bike trails, known as singletrack, are one of the park’s most popular features, and draw all kinds of riders.
Diana Maioriello is here today with her family, who range from age 12 to about 50. They’re all avid bikers, and today they’ll be trying out the single track for the first time.
Alaska News Nightly: May 27, 2013
Man Charged With Double Homicide, Sexually Assaulting 2-Year-Old; Yukon River Causing Flooding In Galena; Yukon River Causing Flooding In Galena; Kulluk Hearing Resumes Tuesday; New Book Explores Lost Legacy Of Harry Karstens, Stuck Expedition; UAF Says Tuition, Research Funding Unlikely To Offset Rising Costs; KHAR Format Change Irks Listeners; Haines Celebrates Alaska’s Craft Beer Culture
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I am a Native Youth Olympian
Every year, hundreds of Alaska Native teens from all over the state gather for the Native Youth Olympics (NYO). They compete in games that have been passed down generation to generation.
In this episode of INDIE ALASKA, you'll meet Autumn Ridley, who in 2012 broke the world record for the Alaskan High Kick, one of NYO's most popular events.