Alaska Highway Memorial Project at Cuddy Park
The Anchorage Park Foundation is pleased to announce the Alaska Highway Project honoring the African-American Army Engineers who built the historic Alaska Highway in 1942.
The new memorial benches in Cuddy Family Midtown Park are dedicated to the African American Army Engineers who built the historic Alaska Highway.
Read more. Alaska News Nightly: September 25, 2012
Department of the Interior Announces NPR-A Lease Sale; Parnell Visits Asia, Touts Alaska’s Resource Potential; False Pass Experimenting With Hydro Power; Brotherhood Bridge For Sale; Medical Examiners Work To ID Body Found Near Coastal Trail; Alaska Railroad to Resume Freight Service; USGS Tests Early Earthquake Warning System In California; Cruise Ship Wastewater Handling Practices May Change; Historian Discovers Early Cartographer Technique
Women in America: Changing Roles, Challenging Times, Defining the Future
While her story may be hidden from the history books, the first woman to run for President of the U.S. in 1872, Victoria Woodhull will finally be introduced to theater audiences when Anchorage Opera presents the world premiere of "Mrs. President" in October. In anticipation of the opera, "Mrs. President" composer Victoria Bond joined Alaskan trailblazers Arliss Sturgulewski, Senator Bettye Davis, Jane Angvik, Georgiana Lincoln and Cynthia Toohey for a panel discussion moderated by APRN's Lori Townsend on "Women in America: Changing Roles, Challenging Times, Defining the Future."
KSKA: Thursday 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm
In the Devil’s Domain: Cooking with Devil’s Club
A microscopic thorn pierces your fingertip, never to be retrieved. As the pain pulses, you carry on through the woods.
Devil’s Club is a plant that has the power to make most people cringe. It is a worst nightmare for off-the-beaten-path hikers who stumble upon it. It's also delicious.
Read more. Soul to Soul: September 15, 2012
Here’s the music playlist from the September 15, 2012 edition of Soul to Soul with Marvel and Sherry Johnson. All tracks played are listed...
Soul to Soul: September 8, 2012
Here’s the music playlist from the September 8, 2012 edition of Soul to Soul with Marvel and Sherry Johnson. All tracks played are listed...
Alaska News Nightly: September 24, 2012
Coleman Barney Sentenced To 5 Years; Kenai River Flood Warning Extended Through Thursday; Seward, Mat-Su Flooding Slowly Receding; Crews Work To Restore Railroad Service; Legislators Focus On How Disabled, Elderly Residents Fared Southcentral Storms; Congress To Have Full Slate After November Election; Fire Island Powers Up; Tanana Adding New Biomass Systems; Day Trip Gives YK Delta Residents Peek At Fort Knox Gold Mine
Heavy Lifting in a Salmon Stream: Alaska’s Tongass Forest Restores Habitat
A Volvo 480 crawler excavator is a big yellow machine. Weighing in at well over 50 tons, it will move just about anything, such as a 17,000-pound log.
Massive logs like these are key ingredients in restoring salmon streams but only if they’re put in the right place.
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AK: Off Course
They say birds of a feather flock together. But try telling that to a small, brightly colored songbird that showed up in Bethel last month. The unusual bird is thousands of miles outside of his normal range. And he hasn't started flying south yet. That has many birders wondering why he sticking around and if he's going to try to survive the harsh Alaska winter.
Alaska News Nightly: September 21, 2012
Talkeetna Braces For Flooding; Flooding Strikes Kenai Peninsula; Settlement Reached In Lawsuit About The 2005 Bristol Bay Area Plan; 9th Circuit Court Rules Against Kivalina; Three Hikers Rescued From Deer Mountain; Fairbanks Residents Combat Invasive Plant; AK: Off Course; 300 Villages: Alatna
Mrs. President: An Anchorage World Premiere
The world premiere of "Mrs. President," an opera by composer Victoria Bond, will be in Anchorage, Alaska on October 5 & 7, 2012.
Recently, Anchorage Opera's Kevin Patterson sat down with composer Victoria Bond to discuss the upcoming show.
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Alaska News Nightly: September 20, 2012
Southcentral Alaska Copes With Flooding; Energy, Manufacturing Companies In Asia Hope To Buy Alaska Gas; Golden Valley Electric Secures Gas Shipments To Fairbanks; Shell Authorized For Two Beaufort Sea Boreholes; Suspect of Shooting North of Kiana Arrested; Kivalina Students Heading Back to School; America’s Top Port Sees Streak Tweaked; State’s Lawsuit Against Fast Ferry Manufacturer Scheduled For Spring; ‘Glacier Deer’ Spotted in Southeast; Longtime APRN Legislature Reporter Retires
Imagining Our Own Past and the World Beyond
All the way back to the Greeks and before, European culture is rooted in worship and theater. Now a budding field of archaeology brings us new evidence of elements of theater in ceremonial locations going back thousands of years in both Europe and the New World.
The stones of ancient outdoor plazas rang with strange sounds that scientists are beginning to be able to reproduce. We are beginning to learn what an oracle sounds like.
This year for the first time the American Association for the Advancement of Science had a session on a promising new science called archaeoacoustics, the study of the sounds of the past.
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Alaska News Nightly: September 19, 2012
Arctic Sea Ice Begins Freezing Again; BBNC Leaders Push For Salmon Fishery Protections In DC; Double Shooting Near Kiana Under Investigation; Seward Declares Emergency Due To Flooding; Collaboration Keeps Contract In Kake; Scientists Studying ‘Slow Quakes’; Game Board Rejects Denali Wolves Buffer Zone; Ceremony Aims To Raise Awareness of Domestic Violence; Haines, Skagway Residents Deal With Loss of Family, Friends
Call for Submissions: 2013 PBS Online Film Festival
The PBS Online Film Festival is back for its second year and Native American Public Telecommunications, Inc. (NAPT) wants you to be a part of it.
NAPT is searching for the best in Native short films from American Indian and Alaska Native filmmakers across the country. As an organization, they'd like to help curate your short film into the larger submission process.
Read more. Alaska News Nightly: September 18, 2012
2012 PFD Will Be $878; Energy Relief Is Not Accompanying PFD; Jack-Up Rig ‘Endeavor’ Lowers Legs Into Kachemak Bay; Wind, Rain Event To Hit Southcentral, Prince William Sound; Tanacross, Dot Lake Still Without Power After High Winds; Scientists Look For Clues Causing Record Arctic Ice Melting; Judge Throws Out Lawsuit Challenging Wishbone Hill Permits; Sitka Adds Teacher To Keep ‘K’ Classes Small
Arctic Innovation Competition: Deadline Approaching
The University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Management will award more than $19,000 in cash prizes through its annual Arctic Innovation Competition.
The competition, now in its fourth year, asks entrants to propose new, feasible and potentially profitable ideas.
Read more. Alaska News Nightly: September 17, 2012
Technical Issues Plague Shell Drilling Plans; Legislature Preparing For Possible Military Closures; Interior Cleaning Up After Wind Storm; Weekend Storm Causes Flood In Southcentral; Era Resumes Limited Service; Fairbanks Youth Homeless Shelter Project Delayed; Valdez Holds First Alaska LNG Summit; Seafood Summit Wraps Up In Hong Kong; Avalanche Professionals Meet In Anchorage; Fairbanks Approves Chena Hot Springs Resort Land Exchange
Understanding Muslim Societies
Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli was recorded speaking on "Understanding Muslim Societies" at the Alaska World Affairs Council on Friday, September 14, 2012.
AK: Geese
Thousands of black brants nest each spring on a piece of marshy tundra near Chevak, in Western Alaska. And for nearly three decades, the small geese have been the research focus of biologist Jim Sedinger. In 1984, the University of Nevada Reno professor decided the brants would be good subjects for a long term study on a bird population. This summer, he brought an audio recorder out into the field.