Alaska News Nightly: June 6, 2008
TransCanada works convince state lawmakers to hand over $500 million to the company to begin developing a gas pipeline. Plus, Denmark's ambassador to the...
AK: The Birds & The Bees
This week on AK... Valentine's Day is approaching and love is in the air, so what better time to get a lesson on The...
Alaska News Nightly: December 30, 2010
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Line One: Cults and indoctrination part 2
Most people believe they are too smart and too independently-minded to fall prey to the charms of a cultic leader or to blindly follow a belief system, yet many people do.
Alaska News Nightly: September 12, 2012
Downsized Budget Reduced Scope Of Denali Commission; Japan Gives US, Canada $6 Million For Tsunami Cleanup; ACLU Hopes To Change State’s Record Expunging Policy; Anchorage Construction Firm Owner Pleads Guilty To Fraud; Railroad Gets OK For Port MacKenzie Rail Extension; Work Begins On Tanana River Bridge; Dockside Safety Exams Soon Mandatory For Many Fishing Boats; Group Asks For Mandatory Deadline To List Bearded, Ringed Seals As Endangered; Assembly Approves $96.7M Blue Lake Construction Cost; Alaska Cruise Season Winds Down
Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, December 23, 2021
For the first time in 45 years, the Coast Guard will get a new icebreaker. Also, what a decline in caribou means for subsistence and sport hunters.
Stevens Dies in Plane Crash; Some Survivors Flown to Anchorage
Former Senator Ted Stevens has been killed in a plane crash, according to a source close to the Stevens family.
Mitch Rose says Stevens,...
Stage Talk: Yippee Kayak
Stage Talk hosts Mark and Jean welcome Jay Gish and Tom McMahon from Yippee Kayak, an improv comedy group from Chicago along with Rich...
Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, June 22, 2023
Legislators consider a special session to override Governor Dunleavy's budget vetoes. Plus, a new airline hopes to provide a boost to Alaska's economy.
Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019
Those 20 'new' interceptors Trump wants in Alaska? They're not NEW new; House chooses Neal Foster as temporary speaker, but there’s still no majority; Federal government shutdown makes safety on the Kuskokwim more expensive; Mat-Su emergency services director resigns with incendiary letter; Murkowski, Young and state attorney general call on court to uphold Indian Child Welfare Act; Cruise lines, Juneau still at odds over passenger fee ruling; Igiugig will test RivGen hydropower through the winter; After multiple delays, Unalaska's city dock is open for business; Alaska Community Foundation raises $100M to support statewide nonprofits; How Bethel created four-time K300 Sled Dog Race champ Pete Kaiser
Alaska News Nightly: May 2, 2013
Parnell Administration Shifts Focus From Oil To Natural Gas. Begich To Introduce Social Security Legislation. Business Of Clean Energy Conference Begins. USS Anchorage: Tours And More. Fairbanks Pilot Makes Solo Trip To The North Pole. Soldier Sentenced For Involuntary Manslaughter. Stikine Subsistence Closed To Chinook Harvest. "Winter Bear” Returns. Kasilof Bear Killed.
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NOVA: Arctic Ghost Ship
Unravel the greatest mystery in Arctic exploration: 160 years ago, the Franklin Expedition to chart the Northwest Passage vanished. Now, a Canadian team - in ARCTIC GHOST SHIP - discovers one of Franklin’s lost ships, a vital clue to the fate of the ill-starred expedition.
Line One: Aging in place and caregiver support
Occupational therapists can provide much needed services to allow our elders to age with dignity in their homes and provide caregiver support.
The Permanent Fund and the budget
Lawmakers couldn't pass a budget plan during 121 days of regular session and will now try to break the gridlock in a special session. All current proposals include using permanent fund earnings to fill the deficit. But the idea of the permanent fund is that it will be...permanent and some Alaskans say, don't touch it.
Stage Talk: My Heart Runs in Two Directions at Once and Refugee Nation
This week on Stage Talk, host Mark Muro is joined by Alaska Native Storyteller, Jack Dalton from My Heart Runs in Two Directions at...
Anatomy of a criminal case
On today's third segment of Justice Alaska on Hometown Alaska, we'll hear Judge Elaine Andrews, prosecutor Clinton Campion and public defender Dunnington Babb explain a criminal case.
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Iditapod: Hitting close to Nome
It’s Tuesday, and we have a two-fer on dog profiles here on the Iditapod. And as we anticipate Norwegian musher Thomas Waerner winning the 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Nome early Wednesday -- barring any unforeseen changes -- we have a story about the modified Shaktoolik checkpoint, a remembrance of an all-star volunteer checkpoint leader in Unalakleet and a little about how a major, longtime sponsor of the Iditarod has announced it’s pulling out. (Maybe not all in that order).
Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, June 19, 2019
US House approves anti-Pebble amendment; Young votes no, defends permit process; Questions surrounding Supreme Court decision mean no federal officers patrolling Lower Kuskokwim; Defendant in Anchorage teen's homicide case now faces federal child porn charges; Soldier found dead in barracks at Fort Wainwright; Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly gets first satanic invocation; Lower Yukon schools contend with legacy of contamination; Dead gray whale near Wrangell located and secured; Scientists examine songs of North Pacific right whales looking for meaning; Rain a respite for Southeast water conservation measures
Alaska News Nightly: February 11, 2010
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49 Voices: Russell Sell of Anchorage
Russell Sell is an experienced skier and owner of SkiAK in Midtown Anchorage.