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Klukwan high schoolers prepare for next steps

Two of Klukwan School’s high school students are either graduating or moving after this year. The high school/junior high teacher is also leaving.

Identity theft: "Not if. When"

Learn how to protect yourself Wednesday on the next Hometown Alaska. Ask questions, tell your own story, hear from the experts. KSKA: Wednesday, May 20, at 2:00 and 9:00 p.m.Listen now:

How can Alaska solve its fiscal crisis?

We’ve been hearing for months about Alaska’s fiscal crisis. The budget is being cut and we’ll have to dip into reserves. Some economists predict that the state will run out of savings in less than a decade. But is there an alternative? Can the state make money for the general fund from sources other than oil revenue? Some economists say yes.KSKA: Friday, 5/15, at 2:00 p.m. and Saturday, 5/16, at 6:00 p.m.KAKM: Friday, 5/15, at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, 5/16, at 4:30 p.m.Download Audio:

House Finance Committee Blocks Medicaid Expansion Bill

House Finance Committee Chair Steve Thompson says the committee will not advance the Governor's Medicaid expansion bill. Download Audio:

Body of Argentine Climber Found High on Denali

The National Park Service reports that the remains of an Argentine climber have been found at a camp high on Denali.Download Audio:

Out of the ashes: a downtown eyesore is transformed

In 2004, an awning patch-job went bad and led to a fire that razed a historic commercial building in the heart of downtown Juneau, where the grand opening of Sealaska Heritage Institute's Walter Soboleff Building will happen Friday.Listen now:

Katmai staff take closer look at F/V Northern Pride

Staff from Katmai National Park and Preserve were on the scene of the wrecked fishing vessel Northern Pride Monday.

Man Survives More Than An Hour Adrift After Skiff Capsizes

A goose hunter spent about an hour and a half adrift after his skiff took on water and capsized in rough seas.Listen now:

Image courtesy of Anchorage Youth Development Coalition.

Coalition Uses A Data-Driven Approach To Find Behavioral Health Solutions

Anchorage organizations are using the wealth of data about youth behavioral health to develop local, community-relevant solutions for things like substance use and suicide. Listen now:

“One of the dangers there, as oil prices continue to go up, is that people will start to shift over to electricity, and all that additional capacity that you’ve gained by raising the dam will just go into existing inefficient buildings, or into new inefficient buildings,” says Jon Heller. (Blue Lake Expansion photo/Desiree Brandis)

Sitka Gets Creative To Pay For Its Dam

After a month of discussion, the Sitka Assembly on Monday night settled on a modest electric rate increase. Residential rates will go up by about 6 percent in the coming year, to pay for debt service on the Blue Lake dam.Listen now:

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