Kirsten Dobroth
Alaska Desk Managing EditorKirsten Dobroth is the managing editor of the Alaska Desk. She previously covered Alaska's fisheries for the seafood industry trade publication Undercurrent News. Before that she was the news director at KMXT in Kodiak, where she still lives. She got her public radio start at Aspen Public Radio in Colorado.
Reach Kirsten at kdobroth@alaskapublic.org.
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“Our biggest question and what we wanted to know is: Where (do) these bats go during winter and what do they do when we’re not seeing them?" said Natalie Velez-Suarez. -
According to records, Anastasia Ashouwak was taken from an orphanage on Woody Island in the Kodiak Archipelago and sent to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School after her mother died in 1901. -
The remains of the four buried recently in Kodiak were too old to be identified, but there’s a sense that they’re finally home, the executive director of the Alutiiq Museum said. -
Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics points to nearly 150,000 vacant pilot positions that will need to be filled over the next decade. -
Troopers said there were no obvious signs of foul play identified at the scene and the investigation into the boy’s death is ongoing. -
Sawyer Cipolla was reported missing last Saturday afternoon.
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Sawyer Cipolla went missing Saturday afternoon.
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Cases on Kodiak comprised 25% of statewide incidents of the illness. Areas in Southeast Alaska — like Juneau, Ketchikan and Prince of Wales Island — also recorded high case rates. -
The ban on Russian seafood imports is part of a series of escalating sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. -
This year’s contributions include stories from mail carriers in Appalachia and health care workers in the Hudson River Valley. Seldovia fisherman Josh Wisniewski’s recordings will be the first from Alaska.
