Night Music: August 25, 2012

Here’s the music playlist for Night Music with Connie G. All tracks played are listed below in the following format: Song Title Artist Name Album Title Label Duration Soft Winds Terry...

Algo Nuevo: August 26, 2012

Here’s the Sunday, August 26, 2012 edition of Algo Nuevo con Dave Luera — Something New with Dave Luera. If you have questions, comments or...

Alaska News Nightly: August 28, 2012

Statoil Moves Closer To Exploratory Chukchi Drilling; Doyon Has Ambitious Interior Oil, Gas Exploration Plans; Gas is Transferring To Cook Inlet Storage; Buccaneer Energy Drill Rig Enters Kachemak Bay; Arctic Imperative Summit Addresses Future Bering Strait Activity; Sen. Begich To Introduce Legislation Creating Arctic Port Authority; Fish & Wildlife Director Hears Sea Otter Concerns; Grant Funds Battle of Wrangell Research

Something Different: August 26, 2012

Here’s the Sunday, August 26, 2012 edition of Something Different with Betsy. All tracks played are listed below in the following format: Song Title Artist Name Album Title CD...

Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center to Open in Style

The Anchorage neighborhood health Center is moving to a new facility in Midtown Anchorage on September 17, 2012. The Health Center had local artists paint “Health Center Hero” medical lab coats for a future benefit — coats will be displayed around town this fall. Here's the story of how I created mine. Read more.

Alaska News Nightly: August 27, 2012

Bear Kills Hiker In Denali National Park; Sea Ice Melts Back To New Record; Second Shell Drill Ship Leaves Unalaska for the Arctic; Crunch Time For Hotly Contested Ballot Measure 2; Stoltze, Connelly Face of in House District 11; Couple Admits To Planning Judge’s Murder; Near Riot Goes Unreported, to be Discussed at Community Forum

Alaska Jazz Workshop Fall Registration

On August 11, 2012 Alaska Jazz Workshop Faculty Jazz Sextet Concert performed featuring internationally acclaimed Jazz Bari Saxophonist Denis Dibasio. The concert culminated the 2012 Jazz Improvisation Camp for secondary school students. Additional workshops are scheduled this fall for all skill levels. Click to learn more.

Alaska News Nightly: August 24, 2012

Native Communities Worry About New Consultation Policy For Native Corporations. Fire Near Fairbanks Increases To 42,000 Acres. Navy Seal Author Remembered By Aniak Residents. Landfield Challenges Senator McGuire In South Anchorage Primary. Five Democrats Vy For Chance to Run Against Don Young. AK: Subsistence. 300 Villages: Glacier View.

Mountain View Park Re-designed by Local Kids

Nestled in a Mountain View neighborhood behind the Boys and Girls Clubhouse and across from Clark Middle School, the aging William B. Lyons Park was badly in need of a makeover. Re-designed last summer by a group of imaginative middle schoolers, their idea of a small amphitheater for community performances and festivals is now a reality. Read more.

Alice Rogoff

She was involved in nation- and world-wide news organization for many years, and she has found a new home in Alaska. As the Alaska Dispatch's co-owner and publisher, her and her colleagues aim to being some of the most in-depth reporting from rural Alaska and bring it to a larger audience. TV: Sunday, 8/26 6:30pm & Wednesday, 8/29 at 11:00pm KSKA: Thursday, 8/30 at 1:00pm

AK: Subsistence

Five years ago, Peter Williams was depressed and an alcoholic, hitting bottom. Now, he’s a successful artist in Sitka who hunts sea otters and sews mittens, scarves, and other products from their fur. He says learning how to hunt marine mammals offered him ‘a place to heal.’

Alaska News Nightly: August 23, 2012

Bin Laden Raid Book Reportedly Authored By Alaskan; Begich Explores Possibility Of Natural Gas Export Industry; Cook Inlet Gas Storage Facilities Not Being Used; Teenagers Sentenced To Prison For Murder Of Kevin Thornton; Young Faces Two Primary Election Challengers; Senator McGuire Campaigns To Keep Seat; Soldier Accused in Hazing Demoted, Loses Pay; NIOSH Takes Alaska Lessons To East Coast Fishermen

Alaska News Nightly: August 22, 2012

Nome Gold Miners To Undergo Mercury Testing; Proposal Would Have Fairbanks Borough Build Natural Gas Distribution Network; NTSB Releases Preliminary Report On Deadly Delta-Area Helicopter Crash; Harry Crawford Challenges Senator Bettye Davis; State Finalizes Petersburg Borough Plan; Menard, Dunleavy Compete For Senate Seat D; Hovercraft Comes To Akutan; Popular Fairbanks Trail Reopens; Ocean Health Index Unveiled

Announcing the Alaska Crib Swap

Child care facilities across Alaska have a Dec. 28, 2012 deadline to replace existing unsafe cribs. To help in this effort, the Alaska Community Foundation (ACF) has partnered with thread to launch the Alaska Crib Swap as part of thread’s “Safe Sleep for Alaska’s Babies” campaign. Read more.

Alaska News Nightly: August 21, 2012

Anchorage Faces $30 Million Budget Gap; Congress Considering Reversing Earmark Ban; More Rain In Forecast For Northwest Alaska; State Challenges Federal Voting Rights Act; Senator Davis Campaigns To Keep Her Seat; Air Force Receives Directives To Remove Cold War-Era Towers; Jack Shay Sentenced To 35 Years, 17 Served; Fairbanks Entrepreneur Continues With Wind Farm Plans

The Lost Ledgers of the Alaska Commercial Company

Not long after the United States purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867, the Alaska Commercial Company, then a newly formed trading firm, launched extensive sea otter hunting operations in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands. Until recently, most of the records for the Aleutian Islands were considered lost forever. Read more.

Alaska News Nightly: August 20, 2012

Project Would Electrify Alaska; Kenai King Concerns Prompt Disaster Declaration Request; Shell Drill Rig Departs For Arctic; Sea Ice Withdrawal Expected To Reach Record Levels; Prop 1 Would Allow Local Option Of Increasing Residential Property Tax Exemptions; Wildfire Near Fairbanks Grows Over Weekend; Wrangell Assembly Wants To Take Away Many Hospital Board Powers; Sightseeing Cruise Strikes Rock, Takes On Water

Impressions of a Place Far Away from Everywhere

I’m resting on a mattress of tundra plants that are growing more than 200 miles from the nearest Alaska village. While I have snuck away here to my own private ridge top, eight other people, all scientists, are somewhere on this 30-mile-long wedge of tundra, rocky beaches, lakes and bird cliffs in the central Bering Sea. Read more.

Algo Nuevo: August 19, 2012

Here’s the Sunday, August 19, 2012 edition of Algo Nuevo con Dave Luera — Something New with Dave Luera. If you have questions, comments or...

Traveling Music: August 19, 2012

Here’s the music playlist from Traveling Music with Shonti Elder. All tracks played are listed below in the following format: Song Title Artist / Composer CD Title Label Duration Horizonto Charlie Hunt...