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Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017

Disputed June incident heightens sexual harassment concerns; Personal rights and stigma: when and where can sex offenders participate in the community?; Skier dead after avalanche strikes in Hatcher Pass; New $521M Anchorage budget pays for more safety, snow plows, homelessness efforts; Bristol Bay red king crab quota caught; Panel to look at testing issues for Alaska marijuana; Talking Trash: You bought it. You tossed it. Rural towns struggle shipping it out; On Black Friday, you can "Opt Outside" for free in Alaska State Parks Listen now

Bristol Bay red king crab quota caught

The total allowable catch for Bristol Bay red king crab this season was 6.6 million pounds. Area management biologist said that fishing this season was “a little slower than we would like to have seen.” Listen now

Snow piles up at Alaska Public Media in Anchorage on Jan. 23rd, 2017 (Photo by Annie Feidt, Alaska’s Energy Desk)

Ask a Climatologist: The highs, lows and snows of Thanksgiving in Alaska

Here's a heaping serving of Thanksgiving-in-Alaska weather facts you can pass around your table along with the stuffing and potatoes. Listen now

Artist Halli Kenoyer, left, uses recycled trash to build a set piece for a community theater production. Ketchikan issues permits for locals who want to salvage metal, bowling balls and whatever else they find at the landfill. (Photo by Leila Kheiry/KRBD)

Talking Trash: In Ketchikan, you can salvage stuff from the landfill

In Ketchikan, people can come up to the landfill and take what they want, which saves the city time, space and money. Listen now

Clint Winzenburg was at this year’s Resource Development Council conference, and he thinks the Trump administration can help take Alaska’s economy a positive direction. (Photo by Elizabeth Harball, Alaska’s Energy Desk.)

With both cheers and tears, Alaskans react to big energy policy changes under Trump

At two recent gatherings in Anchorage, Alaskans expressed very different feelings about the big shift in Washington on development issues. Listen now

Household garbage from Sitka, Ketchikan and three other Southeast Alaska cities ends up in the Roosevelt Regional Landfill in Klickitat County, Washington. (Photo by Tom Banse/Northwest News Network)

Talking Trash: Follow the garbage Southeast ships south

When you toss a candy wrapper in the trash in five Southeast Alaska communities, you’re sending it on a thousand-mile journey to a Lower 48 landfill. Listen now

Governor Bill Walker signs senate bill 28 Thursday, November 16, 2017 at Petersburg’s Sons of Norway Hall. Behind him are legislative staffer Melissa Kookesh, Petersburg community and economic development director Liz Cabrera, mayor Mark Jensen, Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, Petersburg harbormaster Glo Wollen and daughter Sigrid, legislative aide David Scott and lobbyist Ray Matiashowski. (Joe Viechnicki/KFSK)

Governor signs Petersburg land bill

A major increase to the land granted to the new Petersburg borough is now official. Governor Bill Walker Thursday signed legislation granting over 14-thousand acres of state land to the local government. Listen now

Goodnews Bay eighth grader Tucker Evans leaps in the air during the One-Foot High Kick. He says that his cast throws off his balance but increases his momentum. (Greg Lincoln / Delta Discovery)

AK: "Kicking the sky with your feet," four teams compete in Bethel's NYO Invitational

Bethel’s Native Youth Olympic Invitational went on as scheduled. Teams arrived by boat and small planes through thick fog to compete in the traditional games of strength and endurance at Bethel’s Gladys Jung Elementary School. Listen now

At last week's IGU board meeting in the Key Bank Building in downtown Fairbanks, General Manager Jomo Stewart discusses the status of work on a natural-gas distribution system in the Fairbanks-North Pole area while the utility's board of directors, seated around the table, and audience members looks on. (Tim Ellis/KUAC)

Interior Gas Utility sets public meetings to explain proposed purchase of Pentex Assets

The Interior Gas Utility has scheduled a couple of public meetings for later this month to inform Fairbanks North Star Borough residents about the status of the IGU board’s proposal to buy Pentex Alaska Natural Gas Company as part of the local utility’s efforts to build a natural-gas distribution system for Fairbanks and North Pole. Listen now

Tutka Bay Lagoon Hatchery. (Courtesy of Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association)

Hatchery association reduces release numbers in Tutka Bay

The Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association walked back a contentious plan to move most of a hatchery operation further into Kachemak Bay State Park on Saturday. Listen now

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