The Alaska Desk is a statewide reporting collaborative between Alaska Public Media and public radio stations KHNS in Haines, KNBA in Anchorage, KUAC in Fairbanks and a regional Aleutians partnership split between KUCB in Unalaska, KSDP in Sand Point and KUHB in St. Paul. The partnership supports four reporters, three editors and a grants writer and manager.
The goal of the Alaska Desk is to better serve the communities where we live, and all Alaskans, by enhancing local news coverage of rural communities throughout the state. The Desk provides editing support and professional development to public media reporters, many of whom are in one- and two-person newsrooms. Another purpose of the Alaska Desk is to build stronger collaboration with the 27 public broadcasting stations in Alaska.
This partnership is made possible by a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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The plaintiffs argued that the project will harm habitat crucial to caribou, birds and other wildlife that local communities rely on for subsistence. -
The student council is calling on the Skagway School Board to make the attendance policy more inclusive by allowing students to take seven subsistence days per semester. -
There will be no trial as long as Steve Kroschel remains overseas, the judge said at a hearing last week. -
The Department of Environmental Conservation said it has been unable to get close to the wreckage due to worries that metal from Rig 26 might fall on response team members. -
Lizzy Hahn, the student journalist who broke the viral story, says the incident is shaping culture and policy around the use of AI on campus. -
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the review last week, calling the business development program "the oldest DEI program in the federal government." -
New research found that absent climate action, it’s extremely likely coastal Alaska’s wetlands will become too warm for salmon before the end of the century. -
American Cruise Lines has pitched three communities on building new docks as it expands in Alaska. The company rescinded its offer in Haines amid community pushback. -
In the brief window before the rollback, the Fairbanks Native Association said the terminations would impact many of its behavioral health programs. -
Some fuel deliveries resumed last Friday, but the reserves remain low.
