Monica Gokey

In bid to restore Voting Rights Act, Murkowski strays from party lines; State to provide language assistance to Yup'ik, Gwich'in voters; Emperor goose harvest: More than a memory for Kodiak subsistence hunter; Denali Commission ekes back into the spotlight; Donation illuminates Alaska Native civil rights history; Delivery service speeds produce to table; After amputation, the mobility of a sea kayak beckonsDownload Audio

Judge rules against road between King Cove, Cold Bay; More downsizing on the horizon for UA; UAA's College of Engineering moves into its new digs; Shots fired in chase, stand-off with Troopers near Fairbanks; State won't back voter-backed school bonds in Bristol Bay, Anchorage; 'What the pink!?' Has breast cancer activism veered off course?; In Hydaburg, sea otter pelt craft is a budding cottage industry; Valdez ski advocate dies in ATV crash; Run, zipline, signal fires mark J'eet's ChallengeDownload Audio

At GLACIER, nations urge caution in opening the Arctic to fishing; President Obama's Alaska visit yields little regarding Arctic Ocean drilling; Seward to try tidal heat; Getting to know a volcano, starting with its plume; Farragut Farm goes gaga for garlic; After a hard path to sobriety, Nanwalek couple helps others find the wayDownload Audio

Walker may call gas-line special session in October; In historic Alaska visit, president sidesteps the press; Medicaid looks to cut back on new disability program users; With rising heroin use, Peninsula doctor lobbies for an antidote; Juneau hiker who freed eagle and spring traps being sued by trapper; AK: Fishing, cooking and a Yup'ik upbringing made Alaska's health commissioner; 49 Voices: Anthony GuruleDownload Audio

This week we're talking to Anthony Gurule, who's been butchering meat for more than a decade. His first job in Alaska was at the AC Store in Barrow.Download Audio:

Rep. Young avoids POTUS hoopla; Obama wraps up his tour on the front lines of climate change: the Arctic; Denali Commission to spearhead relocation efforts; Sunken seiner leaks oil near Sitka; Uber agrees to pay state $78k for misclassifying employees; Alaska National Guard family program seeks Mat-Su support; National arts endowment leader explains why art is worth it; Restoring the 'Tall One' to its Athabascan roots; Juneau Library to launch Alaska Native stories projectDownload Audio

Obama shares smiles, salmon and dance moves in Dillingham; In Kotzebue, excitement is high as the president ventures north; 5 Chinese warships spotted off the Aleutians; Shell drill rig is back on the grind after a brief storm-induced hiatus; Even with another icebreaker, US fleet pales against its Arctic neighbors; President gives a small fiscal boost to village relocation efforts; Praying to see POTUS, even just a glimpse!; With a potential buyer in the Philippines, Mat-Su floats a ferry deal; Dust settles on state's new Douglas offices, but employee concerns haven't gone quietDownload Audio

Obama on Exit Glacier: 'We want to make sure our grandkids see this'; Reactions to GLACIER trickle in; Medicaid expansion begins in Alaska; Kotzebue prepares for a presidential visit; Fed judge subpoenas ex-EPA official in Pebble case; Governor declares disaster in Sitka, opening new lines of relief funds; Bird flu monitoring underway as waterfowl season opens; Presidential enthusiasm touches down in SewardDownload Audio

Judge denies injunction; Medicaid to roll out Sept. 1; Policy promises and more on the presidential docket ; USARC presentation hints at a relocation initiative in the president's policy plans; 3 homes, community library lost in the Chiniak fire near Kodiak; Town Square gardeners pick up the burden of city homelessness; Belugas sightings persist in the middle Yukon; AK: Setting sail with a tot in tow; 49 Voices: Leah Zumwalt of AnchorageDownload Audio

This week, we're hearing from Leah Zumwalt, a first-grade teacher at Inlet View Elementary in Anchorage. She's originally from California, but has lived in Alaska for eight years.Listen now: