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the Alaska State Capitol

Alaska House majority forms to the right of the Senate’s

The House is finally organized and both chambers are diving into their agendas for the session.
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Alaska House elects a speaker, Republican Rep. Cathy Tilton

With Tilton at the helm, the House can make committee assignments and begin other legislative business this session.
the Alaska Capitol

Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, January 17, 2023

The state legislative session kicks off, but without a permanent speaker in the House. Also, Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she's working on a fix for getting fisheries disaster relief out more quickly. And Alaska Native leaders remember Oliver Leavitt as a whaling captain and a businessman.
Oliver Leavitt

Alaskans remember Oliver Leavitt as an influential leader and whaling captain

Oliver Aveogan Leavitt, who helped turn the Arctic Slope Regional Corp. into Alaska’s largest private company, died Sunday at age 79.
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In northernmost Alaska, a battle is on to limit the damages of permafrost thaw

Warming soils beneath Utqiagvik are triggering erosion that threatens homes, infrastructure and cultural resources.
Talk of Alaska Holiday Greeting From Across The State

Talk of Alaska: Holiday Greetings Across the State 2022

Talk of Alaska’s “Holiday Greetings from Across the State” returns again to connect Alaskans from Utqiagvik to Juneau, hear festive greetings, well wishes, and sentiments from those who call Alaska home.. Join host Steve Heimel for this annual two-hour tradition of season's greetings statewide.
Alaska House floor

‘Stalemate’: Prepare to wait weeks, or even months, before a majority forms in Alaska House

Key decisions, like school spending and the size of Alaska’s oil-wealth checks, hang in the balance pending the outcome of a lawsuit challenging a Republican’s eligibility.

Utqiagvik reaches record high 40˚F in December

The lack of winter sea ice is keeping temperatures warm. Climatologist Rick Thoman says it's a "very clear climate change signal."

Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Alaska's northernmost community is seeing a bizarrely warm Winter. Congress extends a program helping survivors of domestic violence. And a Kenai man makes the top twenty in a national mullet contest.
Talk of Alaska Holiday Greeting From Across The State

Talk of Alaska: Holiday Greetings Across The State – Dec. 20

What better way to stay warm than with Alaska Public Media's warmest holiday tradition? Talk of Alaska: Holiday Greetings Across The...
Dillingham school students

‘We felt accomplished’: Dillingham students celebrate name change for local creek

Alora Wassily, Trista Wassily and Harmony Larson had worked to change a local creek’s racist name since 2021 — long before federal officials did so.
a polar bear

Study tracks Arctic animals’ exposure to disease better known in Interior Alaska: tularemia

A wide variety of Arctic animals including polar bears are being exposed to a tick-borne pathogen normally associated with rabbits and hares, a newly published study said.
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Alaska doctor, once the focus of outrage, reflects on past as abortion provider, with questions

As Dr. carolyn Brown reflects on her past as an abortion provider, she said she struggles with how to define the beginning of personhood.
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First decade of Alaska’s dental therapy program shows successes in Yukon-Kuskokwim region

A new study shows positive results from 10 years of an Alaska program allowing professionals other than dentists to provide general care in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.

As Northwest Alaska heavy winds die down, flooding likely to impact communities

The National Weather Service has a flood advisory for the Kotzebue area through tonight, with Nome and Utqiagvik’s going into tomorrow. Officials say damage to fish and hunting camps along the coast is expected, with erosion also a possibility.

Alaska’s next west coast storm forecast to hit farther north, as some communities still recover from September flooding

The most serious impacts are expected from Shishmaref to Kotzebue and up the coast to Utqiagvik.
Waves roaring on a Kotzebue beach.

Weather service officials say worst of heavy Bering Sea winds have passed

After a massive storm brought storm surge and flooding across hundreds of miles of Western Alaska coastline, officials with the National Weather Service say they expect the worst of the wind has passed. 
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Alaska’s COVID ‘superstorm’ experience of 2021 offers lessons for future pandemics, study says

Alaska's 2021 COVID pattern showed positive impacts from vaccination but negative impacts from early easing of protections, study says.
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‘I had to get out of there’: Fairbanks man’s remote rafting trip turns into wilderness COVID ordeal

David Hamilton, 77, emphasized the value of his $125 per year medevac insurance.

Amid turmoil, international Inuit group gathers online to promote protecting Arctic

The Inuit Circumpolar Council, meeting virtually for its quadrennial assembly, celebrated achievements made despite unusual challenges.