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Hometown, Alaska: God in Alaska, Part 2
The Pew Research Center has recently found Alaska to be the least religiously inclined state in the nation. Yet religion has played an enormous...
Hometown, Alaska: God in Alaska, Part 1
On the next Hometown, Alaska we will begin a two-part series on “God in Alaska”. This show parallels the PBS series,...
Hometown, Alaska: Federal Spending in Alaska
According to a University of Alaska study, 40% of Alaskan’s personal income comes directly or indirectly from federal spending, and more than a third...
Hometown, Alaska: Annual Yearly Progress Reports
September is back to school month, and students are settling into their routine. Many are setting future goals for after graduation, but how many...
Line One: Tuberculosis and Public Health in Alaska
In the early 20th century, tuberculosis destroyed entire villages across Alaska. Hundreds of years later, tuberculosis continues to re-emerge in rural Alaska proving to...
Hometown, Alaska: Denali KidCare
Denali KidCare is how Alaska ensures that the health needs of kids and teens under age 18 are met, and those of pregnant mothers...
Hometown, Alaska: Volunteerism
September 11th has been declared the National Day of Service - a day to adopt a charity, or do a good deed. We’re...
Hometown, Alaska: The Great Death
The epidemics that swept through Alaska Native villages in the early 20th century are among the most tragic and least known events in Alaska...
New Schedule: Fall 2010
Beginning Monday August 30, 2010 look forward three new programs on KSKA, including: Marketplace Money on Monday nights at 9:00 pm, a two-hour mix...
Hometown, Alaska: The Alaska State Fair
The Guinness World Record breaking 125.9 pound cabbage from the cabbage weigh-off at the Alaska State Fair in 2009.
Giant cabbages. Homemade quilts and hand...
Hometown, Alaska: Ballot Measure 2
On the next Hometown, Alaska, we will be discussing the contentious ballot measure two, a bill that would make it mandatory for minors seeking...
2PM Wednesday LIVE Coverage: Senator Stevens' Funeral
Senator Stevens' funeral will be broadcast live on KSKA FM 91.1 and KAKM Channel 7 TV beginning at 2:00 pm on Wednesday August 18....
Hometown, Alaska: Ballot Measure 1
Do you know enough to vote?
Proponents call it the Anti-Corruption Act. Opponents call it an attack on free speech and capable of shutting down...
Alaska, Nation Mourns Stevens' Death
Libby Casey, APRN - Washington DC
Steve Heimel, APRN - Anchorage
Annie Feidt, APRN - Anchorage
Lori Townsend, APRN - Anchorage
Josh Edge, APRN - Anchorage
Alaska and the...
Hometown, Alaska: Youth Spending Their Vacations Serving the Community
College and high school students look forward to the summer break to get a respite from the study grind. But these days, ...
Hometown, Alaska: The Alaskan Alternative Circus
Jumping tigers, sprinting elephants, enormous tents, peanuts, zebras and clowns. Well, those might not be the things you’ll see when you go to a...
Hometown, Alaska: The Mat-Su Colonists, 75 years later
The colonists used the train for eating and social events even after they had arrived and set up their tent city. Here they gather...
Hometown, Alaska: Alaska's college baseball playoffs attract big league scouts
The times they are a 'changing fast, but one thing stays the same - the crack of the bat against a leatherbound ball, and...
Hometown, Alaska: Combating Sexual Assault in Alaska
For years, Alaskans have battled alarming rates of reported rapes and sexual assaults. Task forces have been formed, reports have been filed and still,...
Hometown, Alaska: The Human Toll of the Gulf Oil Spill
Photo courtesy NOAA: Workers replacing oiled pom-pons with clean ones along a beach in Louisiana.
Alaskans are 21 years out from the Exxon Valdez,...