Shelby Herbert
Alaska Desk Reporter, FairbanksShelby Herbert reports on Interior Alaska for the Alaska Desk from partner station KUAC in Fairbanks. She got her start in the Alaska Public Radio network in 2023, working as the news director for KFSK in Petersburg.
Before coming to Alaska, Shelby got her masters degree in media innovation from the University of Nevada, Reno, where she was also a graduate fellow at regional public radio station KUNR.
When she’s not out reporting, you might find her out birdwatching or plucking a six-string at an open mic.
Reach Shelby at sherbert@alaskapublic.org.
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"If you're flying rockets in space, and you're not having fun, you're doing it wrong," said the researcher who led the mission. -
The Army installation has restored its regular dining facility hours after a service disruption that began in October. -
In the brief window before the rollback, the Fairbanks Native Association said the terminations would impact many of its behavioral health programs. -
The northernmost subpopulation of grizzlies is made up of only a few hundred bears spread out over a large, food-scarce expanse. -
Stevens died in Fairbanks last month at the age of 92. Friends and fellow musicians say his music will live on through his students and in programs that spread fiddling across rural Alaska. -
That hasn’t stopped people from making the pilgrimage to Fairbanks to try to see it. -
This week's powerful coronal mass ejections could bring even more auroras in the coming days. -
Atcharee Buntow said she's happy to be back, but she's afraid of what will happen next. -
One food bank CEO said that, between benefits lapsing and high winter demand, she expects "a lot of silent hunger behind closed doors." -
Lightning caused most of the fires that swept across the Interior this summer, burning thousands of acres and dozens of structures.
