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Alaska News Nightly: Monday, December 16, 2024

Ukrainian refugees in Alaska worry about deportation. Plus, a health care forensics course teaches medical professionals to recognize signs of domestic abuse.

Ukrainians in Alaska worry about deportation: ‘What’s going to happen with us?’

More than 1,000 Ukrainians have come to Alaska since Russia's 2022 invasion. Almost all have settled in, but they worry that President-elect Trump will deport them.

‘Greyhound Cowboy: And Other Stories’ explores flawed characters in wild spaces | State of Art

Ken Post tells us about his long career in the Forrest Service, creating "loveable losers" and the role nature plays in his stories.

Brandon Ware skins a sea lion at the South Harbor crane dock on Sunday. He and his brother Billy Ware (pictured left) subsistence harvested two sea lions on Saturday.

Tlingit brothers kill aggressive Petersburg sea lion in subsistence hunt

A local harbormaster says the animal had been snapping at people and pets, stalking them as they walked the docks.

Michelle Theriault Boots

Nathaniel Herz

Anchorage-based independent journalist Nathaniel Herz has been a reporter in Alaska for nearly a decade, with stints at the Anchorage Daily News and Alaska Public Media. Read his newsletter, Northern Journal, at northernjournal.com.

Trawl-caught pollock harvested during an Alaska research survey.

Big fight looms at Board of Fish meeting over Prince William Sound trawl bycatch

Conservation and tribal advocates seeking a crackdown on Bering Sea bycatch are turning their attention to a smaller pollock trawl fishery in Prince William Sound.

Yereth Rosen

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Brian Venua

The Anchorage Museum and downtown Anchorage covered in snow on December 3, 2019. (Photo by Joey Mendolia/Alaska Public Media)

Alaska News Nightly: Friday, December 13, 2024

Anchorage officials brainstorm solutions to the looming natural gas shortage. Plus, Ketchikan residents speak out against school funding cuts at a contentious meeting.

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