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00000193-6342-d71b-a7fb-ebdbbf090000As art aficionados know, anything aesthetic is the first thing cut at school board meetings—art is considered a frill! This month’s line-up ought to send the naysayers rethinking.Read more

The year 2014 has proved to be a slow one for Arctic shipping. Just 31 ships sailed between Europe and Asia across the Northern Sea Route, and 22 did part of the route. That’s down from a total of more than 70 in 2013. Malte Humpert, executive director of the Arctic Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, says this year has served as a reality check on some of the over-heated Arctic predictions of recent years.

The survivor of the Dec. 6 avalanche at Rainbow Ridge returned to the site in the Eastern Alaska Range last week to recover the bodies of his friend and dog. Michael Hopper says he had to go, because Alaska State Troopers had ruled out a recovery mission until the danger of avalanche in the area subsided. That could’ve taken months.Download Audio

$41,000 Raised for Victims of Christmas Day Crash; One Dead, One Injured in Koyuk House Fire; Woman Killed in Anchorage Pedestrian Crash; Court Overturns State Regulation Deeming Kodiak's Bison Feral; Pat Pitney Prepares To Address State's Budget Issues; Avalanche Survivor Returns to Rainbow Ridge, Recovers Bodies of Companions; As Federal Case Proceeds, State Drops Charges Against Dutch Harbor Asia Owners; Spay and Neuter Clinics Improve Village SafetyDownload Audio

Sitka Community Hospital will get a $1-million infusion of cash from the Sitka assembly, in order to meet short-term expenses. A long-term solution for the hospital’s cash woes is still on the horizon.Download Audio

It’s been more than 70 years since Unalaska came under attack during World War II, but you don’t have to look hard to find the remnants. The community is littered with old gunnery installations, battered Quonset huts and bunkers – some of which are being preserved for posterity.But there’s history, and then there’s hazard, and the shells and bombs that keep washing up on Unalaska’s shores fall somewhere in between.Download Audio

Downton Abbey, the most popular program on PBS, returns for its 5th Season Sunday, January 4 at 8;00 pm on Alaska Public Media. This Emmy® and Golden Globe® award-winning hit drama of intimately interlaced stories centered on an English country estate is the highest-rated drama in PBS history.

The backers of an ambitious project to build a fiber optic cable between England and Japan beneath Arctic waters—and in the process bring high-speed internet to remote corners of western Alaska—say undertaking has seen delays that will push the arrival of service back until at least 2016.Download Audio

The Juneau Assembly last night honored a city police officer who recently received a statewide award as the top local government employee in Alaska. Then for good measure, the Assembly recognized the entire Juneau Police Department.Download Audio

Gov. Walker Signs MOU With Resources Energy, Inc.; Origins Of The Endangered Species Act; Minimum Wage Measure Could Boost Bus Driver Pay; ‘Arctic Fiber’ Project Delayed into 2016; Juneau Assembly Committee: Scale Back Senior Sales Tax Exemption; Shop with a Cop highlights family homelessness in Anchorage; Juneau Assembly Honors JPD’s “Rock Star”; Alice's Champagne Palace to Open Solstice WeekendDownload Audio