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More than 500 bills have been introduced nationwide this year that seek to limit the rights of LGBTQ+ individuals, including in Alaska. Despite these numbers, advocates in Alaska say there’s been good progress in defending those rights. But what exactly are they? And how are Alaskans celebrating Pride Month despite this national trend? We discuss proposed laws and regulations, and pride month celebrations on this Talk of Alaska.

The Alaska Women’s Cancer Care in Anchorage has been forced to ration the generic drugs cisplatin and carboplatin, due to short supplies.

Fairbanks Police Chief Ron Dupee says of 44 budgeted FPD positions, only 29 are currently filled — and 13 of those are administrative.

It’s been a week since ice severed a fiber optic cable in the Arctic Ocean, cutting communications to several Northwest Alaska communities.

It’s a federal crime to sell art that is falsely marketed as created by an Alaska Native or tribal member.

Administrators said they’re disappointed and concerned by the cut, the biggest single veto from this year’s budget.

The governor's budget vetoes are in, and they include cutting half of an education funding increase. Also, a sub-sea fiber optic cable break in the Arctic is affecting emergency services in the region. And researchers head up Mt. Edgecumb, a long-dormant volcano in Sitka that's been rumbling recently.

Vetoes total more than $200 million, including half of the one-time boost the Legislature added for schools.

A former employee of the governor's gave a speech airing his extremist views that had not been approved by the governor's office. Plus, without enough officers to cover shifts, Fairbanks Police will change their patrol schedule.

Ryan Dummler, 32, faces murder charges in the West Dimond Boulevard shooting early Thursday of 51-year-old John Martin III.