Alaska News Nightly: December 28, 2009

Individual news stories are posted in the Alaska News category and you can subscribe to APRN’s news feeds via email, podcast and RSS. Download Audio...

Line One: Comparing U.S. Health Care With Other Countries

How do other industrialized countries provide health care for their citizens? As we embark on health care system debates and reforms in the U.S.,...

Line One: Comparing U.S. Health Care With Other Countries

How do other industrialized countries provide health care for their citizens? As we embark on health care system debates and reforms in the...

Algo Nuevo: December 27, 2009

Here’s the music playlist from the Sunday December 27, 2009 edition of Algo Nuevo con Dave Luera — Something New with Dave Luera. If you have...

Rock Island Line: December 27, 2009

Here’s the music playlist from the December 27, 2009 edition of Rock Island Line with Steve Grabacki and Marianne Kerr. All tracks played are listed...

Soul to Soul: December 26, 2009

Here’s the music playlist from the December 26, 2009 edition of Soul to Soul with Marvel and Sherry Johnson. All tracks played are listed...

Algo Nuevo Hour: December 25, 2009

Here’s the music playlist from the Friday December 25, 2009 edition of Algo Nuevo Hour. If you have questions, comments or music requests for host Dave Luera,...

Alaska News Nightly: December 24, 2009

Individual news stories are posted in the Alaska News category and you can subscribe to APRN’s news feeds via email, podcast and RSS. Download Audio...

Trinadad Ruiz

Trinadad Ruiz lives in Barrow, the most northern city in the United States. But, her roots run south, across the border to Mexico. She...

Richard Beneville

Richard Beneville is a fast-talking former New Yorker who has made a life in Nome, Alaska - a town with a rich gold rush...

Della Chaney

The ties that connect one generation to another were severed violently in many Alaska Native communities. First, the TB epidemic killed off many and...

Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson, a Tlingit carver from Kake, Alaska, traces his roots to tribal peacemakers - a tradition that he keeps alive today. He and...

Jada Smith

Jada Smith's family is not the only one to have drunks in its midst. But, unlike many, Smith has found strength and guidance from...

Mabel Pike

Mabel Pike is, possibly, Alaska's best-known Tlingit beader and skin sewer. She told her friend, Sharon Livingston, that she grew up in Southeast Alaska,...

Charlotte Fitzhugh

79-year-old Charlotte Fitzhugh lives in a converted school bus in Fairbanks, Alaska. 20 years ago, she decided to run in the 1,000-mile-long Yukon Quest...

Ward and Taylor Hurlburt

Ward and Taylor Hurlburt are brothers. They fish commercially for salmon in Bristol Bay. But, the two have never totally put aside their sibling...

Larry and Jen Landry

Many come to Interior Alaska dreaming of living simply in a cabin and wandering off in the wilderness to find adventure. Larry and Jen...

Harold Luke

Harold Luke was born in Nenana, Alaska and raised in a series of children's homes in Fairbanks, and by foster parents. When he grew...

Da-Ka-Xeen Mehner

Da-Ka-Xeen Mehner is like many people today. His heritage is a stew, but the prodominant ingredient is Tlingit. He's an artist in Fairbanks.  Aldona...

Mary Shields and Judy Gottschalk

Mary Shields and Judy Gottschalk's friendship was cemented through decades of adventures in Alaska. They lived like vagabonds, traveling the country on pennies,...