Matt Jardin and Megan Helenthal (front/center) work on an upcoming episode of their web series “Matt and Megan and Mike Don’t Give a F***.” (Matt Jardin) [...]

Alaska Department of Public Safety Commissioner James Cockrell speaks to reporters about assault charges brought against two state troopers during a press conference on Thursday, August [...]

Anchorage Police vehicles scattered the scene on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. (Ava White/AKPM) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, and comments to [...]

Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage. (Jeff Chen/Alaska Public Media) A spike in pertussis, a contagious disease commonly known as whooping cough, has swept through Alaska, the state Department of [...]

The Office of Public Advocacy in downtown Anchorage. Their deputy director Beth Goldstein is named as a defendant in a class action lawsuit alleging the state [...]

This episode of Addressing Alaskans features the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation’s 2024 Economic Development Luncheon. AEDC President and CEO, Jenna Wright, presents results of economic confidence [...]

A teacher reads a story to infants at the Hmoob Cultural Center of Alaska on August 7, 2024. (Adam Nicely/Alaska Public Media) An Anchorage child care provider is trying to [...]

United States Coast Guard Cutter Healy docked at Kodiak’s Pier 2, August 25, 2023. (Brian Venua / KMXT) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news [...]

A bridge over Chester Creek on Arctic Boulevard near Valley of the Moon Park, during a flood advisory for the creek on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024. [...]

Buddy Krick wades through water inside his house on Long Drive following Juneau’s annual glacial outburst flood on Tuesday, August 6, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO) Stories are [...]

Water fills the streets and floods houses in the Mendenhall Valley early morning on Tuesday, July 6, 2024. (Photo courtesy of Rich Ross) Stories are posted [...]

The view of mountains in Kachemak Bay State Park from the Homer Spit on Oct. 14, 2023. (Jamie Diep/KBBI) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send [...]

Bethel resident Ralph Pavila poses briefly while dumping and scavenging at the Bethel landfill on June 29, 2024. The cost of living in Bethel is estimated to be nearly one and [...]

A John Deere tractor with a rake affixed to the back collects salmon carcasses after Kenai’s personal use fishery closes for the season (Hunter Morrison / KDLL) Stories are posted [...]

Local musician and staple of the Anchorage scene since the early 2000s, Emma Hill has experienced the highs and lows of a tightknit community of performers, [...]

The Alaska State Capitol on March 25, 2024. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed five bills Thursday that lawmakers passed after midnight on the last day of the [...]

Anchorage Police Chief Sean Case discusses the release of officers’ body camera footage in the May 13, 2024 shooting of Kristopher Handy during a Wednesday, July [...]

Alaska Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Henderson is seen on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, in Juneau. Alaska’s Supreme Court will likely soon have three female and two male justices, making it [...]

Gabe Layman, president and CEO of Cook Inlet Housing Authority. (Leigh Walden/Alaska Public Media) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, and comments [...]

A man guts a freshly-caught fish at Kenai Beach on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. (Leigh Walden/Alaska Public Media) Karl Lennox took a knife to the freshly-caught salmon’s belly, starting at [...]

Alden Thern is Anchorage’s chief fiscal officer. He began in the position in May of 2023. (Photo courtesy of the Municipality of Anchorage) Anchorage’s finance bureaucrats pulled off a flurry [...]

Martha Outwater Parker rinses off the fish her niece caught on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. (Leigh Walden/Alaska Public Media) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send [...]

An RS1 rocket from ABL Space Systems set up on a launch pad at the Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska. (Courtesy ABL Space Systems) Stories are posted on [...]

Anchorage Chief Administrative Officer Bill Falsey at Alaska Public Media on Wednesday, July 24, 2024. (Casey Grove/Alaska Public Media) Wednesday on Alaska News Nightly: An ash [...]

Rep. Mary Sattler Peltola, D-Alaska, speaks to reporters on Monday, Feb. 26, 2024, after her annual address to the Alaska Legislature. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) Alaska’s House race will [...]

Beacon Hill’s boutique will shut its doors to the public on August 1. (Ava White/AKPM) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, and [...]

President Biden and Vice President Harris stand on stage at the Democratic National Committee winter meeting, Feb. 3, 2023, in Philadelphia. After deciding to no longer seek the Democratic nomination, [...]

Anchorage’s former Solid Waste Services administration building, pictured here on Sept. 20, 2023, is located on 56th Avenue. The city has been contracting the nonprofit Henning Inc. to operate a [...]

Anchorage Police Chief Sean Case speaks to Assembly members on July 19, 2024. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, [...]

A western black-headed budworm hangs from a silk thread. (Elizabeth Graham) Insect infestations began tearing through Southeast Alaska years ago, leaving behind scores of balding trees and annoyed hikers. Those [...]

A Cook Inlet beluga whale mother and calf (Hollis Europe and Jacob Barbaro/NOAA Fisheries) A federal judge is sending Interior Department officials back to the drawing board after concluding a [...]

Gabriella Rinehart throwing a lightweight hammer during the Kachemak Bay Highland Games on July 6. (Jamie Diep/KBBI) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, [...]

Trump’s pick for vice president, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, arrives on the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 15 in Milwaukee. (Andrew Harnik/Getty [...]

U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski and U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola. (Alaska Public Media) Alaska’s political leaders have sent messages of support to former President Donald Trump after [...]

Former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage during a rally in Butler, Pa. (Evan Vucci/AP) BUTLER, Pa. — Former President Donald Trump was the target of an assassination attempt Saturday [...]

A forensic artist’s sketch of a third possible victim in the Brian Steven Smith murder case. It’s a composite of images taken from one of Smith’s [...]

Steve Cleary, executive director for Alaska Trails, holds a giant pair of scissors for the ribbon cutting of Russian Jack Park’s new single track bike trails [...]

Downtown Juneau in May 2023. (Clarise Larson/for the Juneau Empire) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, and comments to news@alaskapublic.org. Follow Alaska [...]

U.S. Sens. Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski. (Alaska Public Media) Alaska’s U.S. senators say they’re horrified by the behavior of former Alaska U.S. District Court judge Joshua Kindred, whom they [...]

Evidence markers on the ground within a police cordon. (Chris Klint/Alaska Public Media) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, and comments to [...]

Author of the book, “The Alaskan Blonde” James Bartlett is set to teach a series of workshops on July 17 and 18 at the Fairbanks Summer [...]

Jeremy Viray hits a freeze mid dance at FlowZone Dance Studio in Anchorage on Tuesday, June 25, 2024. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media) The U.S. Supreme Court issued a huge decision late last month that removes power from all federal agencies, and the results are [...]

Drag queen Dela Rosa poses with her rainbow flag during the parade. Throughout the day around 15 drag queens and kings could be found mingling and [...]

A plane dumps water on a mountainside involved in the Riley Fire near the entrance to Denali National Park. (Emily Miller/National Park Service) Stories are posted [...]

Sens. Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski in 2020. (Jeff Chen/Alaska Public Media) Alaska’s U.S. senators issued restrained responses to the Supreme Court’s ruling that Donald Trump [...]

Iñupiat whalers use a sealskin boat, or umiak, in 2019. Voice of the Arctic Iñupiat, an advocacy group, say oil revenues allow North Slope people to live longer, healthier lives. [...]

The Boney Courthouse in Anchorage on June 27, 2024. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) The Alaska Supreme Court has reversed a lower court ruling that threw the future of homeschooling in [...]

The facade of the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau on May 22, 2024. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) Gov. Mike Dunleavy signed the state’s $12.2 billion operating budget Friday. He trimmed [...]

A cluster of bicycles and tents sit in an encampment near the 15th Avenue fishing reel bridge on June 28, 2024. Julie Greene-Graham, affiliated with the [...]