Alaska News Nightly: June 25, 2012
Adak To Support Offshore Oil And Gas Development; 17 New Forest Fires Reported Sunday; Crews Work To Quell Allakaket Blaze; USAV Monterrey Towed To Seward; Public Safety No Longer Controls Alcohol; Project Healing Waters, BBNC Sponsor Injured Veteran, Soldier Fishing Excursion; Dunbar Going For Gold In Eugene; Conference Attendees Defend Small Business Administration Program; Communities Celebrate Final Whaling Festivals
American Masters: Johnny Carson
Explore the life and career of "The Tonight Show" host — seen by more people than anyone else in U.S. history — through unprecedented access to Carson’s personal and professional archives, including all existing episodes of "The Tonight Show" from 1962-1992. Interviews with family, colleagues and performers who appeared, began or were influenced by "The Tonight Show" illuminate his story: David Letterman, Jay Leno, Ellen DeGeneres, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Fallon, Jerry Seinfeld, Steve Martin, Joan Rivers, Mel Brooks, Angie Dickinson, David Steinberg, Don Rickles, Carl Reiner, Doc Severinsen and others. Kevin Spacey narrates.
KAKM: Monday, 5/14 at 8:00pm
Battle Of The Tennis Courts Is Over; And Election Season Is Coming
The lengthy Battle of the Tennis Courts is over. A government scientist finds a dead polar bear - and sets off a controversy lasting years. Fish wars on the Kenai Peninsula continue. Three-time sex offenders are sentenced to 99 years. The election season is coming - as is unregulated political advertising. Mayor Dan Sullivan of Anchorage goes to Washington for municipal business - and a fundraiser. Santa's reindeer are a special species, ADFG tells us. Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma says several Alaska big-ticket projects are a waste of money. A crime story - suspicious icicles.
KSKA: Friday, 12/20 at 2PM & Saturday, 12/21 at 6PM.
KAKM: Friday 12/20 at 7:30PM & Saturday. 12/21 at 4:30PM
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LISTEN: ‘Shining a light’ on suicide awareness
Suicide effects nearly all of us at some point in lives, and its impact is felt throughout our communities in Alaska. Whether you yourself have struggled with thoughts of suicide or self-harm, or you know someone who has, its vital to know that help is available and where to find it.
Better Thinking About Thinking
"Knowledge is not a matter of getting reality right. But rather a matter of acquiring habits of action for coping with reality," says Michael Lissack, executive director of the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence. This week on Addressing Alaskans listen to his talk on “Better Thinking About Thinking – Coherence, Complexity and Context” hosted by Alaska Pacific University.
KSKA: Tuesday 6/18 at 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm
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Alaska News Nightly: December 4, 2009
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Alaska News Nightly: May 9, 2013
How Much Are Hospitals Charging? How Much Is Medicare Paying?; Arctic Scientists Take On ‘Emerging Research Questions’; City, Borough Officials Of Juneau Keeping Track Of Marketplace Fairness Act; Alaska Native Fisheries Group Wants Fair Share; Land Exchange Between Fairbanks Borough, Local Resort Hits Snag; Biologists Release Numbers For Spring Wolf Count In Denali National Park; Police Break Up Eagle Party At Unalaska Safeway; King Island Community Members Hope To Return To Bering Sea Island
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Gubernatorial candidate Mark Begich
As the race for Alaska's next Governor heats up, Talk of Alaska is featuring all three candidates in September. On the next program, Democrat Mark Begich joins us. What does he see as the best path forward for the future of Alaska? LISTEN HERE
Alaska News Nightly: May 29, 2014
Committee Moves Bill Updating Magnuson-Stevens Act; Kuskokwim Inter-Tribal Fish Commission Comes Together In Bethel; Begich Speaks On VA Care In Alaska; Rain Helping Firefighters Maintain Containment Lines; Funny River Residents Meet After Evacuation Order Lifted; Alaska Zoo Caring For Orphaned Wolf Pups; 2-Year State Predator Control Program Claims 153 Interior Bears; Secretary of Defense Visits JBER
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Off Mic: Radio Lab ends, Only A Game begins
Do ya love Radio Lab? So do we! The limited series from WNYC ends Saturday, May 17th, but it will be...
Fly for Pie
Since 1980, the number of female pilots in the United States has remained stagnant at 6% of all pilots. In Alaska,
however, with a per capita pilot population three times the next closest state, it’s not hard to find a group of women
pilots to talk about their adventures.
Reflections from the Trapline
The woods after the first snowfall have a distinctive sound. The world becomes quieter, and any remaining sound is muffled, as though filtered through cotton.
It’s in this new silence that I find myself snowshoeing through the trees.
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Looking back on Alaska’s 2016
We’re at the end of 2016. It was a year of legislative fights over the budget, taxes, the permanent fund and what the fiscal future path for Alaska should look like. It was also a year when Alaska tribes were given a path to put land into trust, and the residents of Barrow voted to change its name. A 7.1 earthquake shook up Southcentral residents and a lot of other big things happened. We’ll discuss them and look ahead to 2017. Listen Now
Algo Nuevo: March 15, 2015
Here’s the Sunday, March 15, 2015 edition of Algo Nuevo con Dave Luera — Something New with Dave Luera. If you have questions, comments...
Line One: Youth Sports Injuries
This week on Line One, host Dr. Woodard welcomes two local experts to discuss common sports injuries for Alaska's youth. Learn how parents and...
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.
Antibiotics: The good, the bad, the ugly
The discovery of antibiotics nearly a century ago transformed medicine. Infectious diseases that commonly killed became curable. Although life-saving, antibiotics can also have undesirable effects and drug-resistant bacteria are threatening the improvements in life expectancy and health that have been provided by antibiotics. Dr. Jay Butler, welcomes infectious disease specialists for a discussion of antibiotics—the good, the bad, the ugly.
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RUNNING: Anchorage School Board, Seat A
Photos by Kristin Spack, KSKA - Anchorage
Here is the audio from the first night of RUNNING with the School Board candidates for Seat A....
Potential health impacts of climate change in Alaska
It is the consensus of climate experts and 18 major American scientific associations that climate change and global warming is occurring at an unprecedented rate since the rise of humans and that it is due a “greenhouse” effect caused by a number of gases, the most important being man-made carbon dioxide. On this Line One program we discuss the potential health impacts of climate change in Alaska.
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Nature: Dogs That Changed the World
This is the epic story of one of the most amazing evolutionary journeys ever taken by a species. Thousands of years ago, as humans began to settle in villages, the wolf emerged from the wild and made the startling leap to “man’s best friend.”