Valerie Lake / Alaska Public Media) One man was killed early Saturday in a downtown Anchorage shooting, and responding officers shot and wounded another man who witnesses said had been [...]
Canoes wait to come ashore in Petersburg on May 29, 2024. The support boat Deer Harbor II is in the background. (Hannah Flor / KFSK) Stories [...]
Former President Donald Trump sits in a courtroom at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 21 for his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments. (Justin Lane/Pool/Getty Images) NEW YORK [...]
City crews begin installation of the protected bike lane in downtown Anchorage early Tuesday, May 28, 2024. (Kenny Friendly/Municipality of Anchorage) Most of Anchorage’s iconic Sixth Avenue is a three-lane, [...]
Anchorage Election administrator William Northrop at the Anchorage Election Center on May 28, 2024. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media) Anchorage voters cast more than 80,000 ballots in this year’s mayoral runoff [...]
Local children’s book author Brook Hartman has written stories including “The Littlest Airplane” and “All Aboard the Alaska Railroad.” (Courtesy of Brook Hartman) With two kids [...]
A chinook salmon. (Ryan Hagerty/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) A petition to list many Alaska king salmon stocks as endangered has cleared its first hurdle. As first reported by the [...]
Lance McMullan loads the disassembled generator into Brian Delay’s boat for a test in October 2023. (Photo by Anna Canny/KTOO) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxFcXxPGyes The challenges of funding Alaska government services, education and the Permanent Fund dividend have become more intense as the state’s fiscal situation grows tighter. [...]
Robin and Susan Beesley ascend a ridge near Hope, Alaska. (Annie Feidt/Alaska Public Media) The possibilities for adventure during the brief period of time we call [...]
The Alaska State Capitol in Juneau, pictured May 6, 2024. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) State lawmakers passed several energy bills this session aimed at updating the Railbelt’s electrical grid and [...]
A group sings on the steps of the Alaska Capitol in Juneau for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day on May 5, 2022. (Paige Sparks/KTOO) One of the bills [...]
Kenai City Hall (Sabine Poux/KDLL) The City of Kenai on Wednesday repealed three pieces of code that prohibited public sleeping and begging. Police Chief David Ross brought forward the ordinance. [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhdNGLD0-JA The Anchorage Hillside is at high risk of wildfires, and between the abundance of flammable materials and the low number of roads, residents of [...]
Katie Scoggin was the student commencement speaker at UAA’s recent graduation. (Caitlin Pobieglo) When Katie Scoggin addressed her fellow students at UAA’s recent commencement ceremony, it [...]
Researchers and city officials work to inform Hillside communities of wildfire risks - Alaska Public Media [...]
(Paul Twardock) It is time for boating! After a long winter kayaks and canoes are finally appearing from beneath piles of snow, rivers are running, lakes [...]
Coen Niclai on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, two days before his graduation from Anchorage’s Service High School. (Valerie Lake/Alaska Public Media) It’s high school graduation season across the state, as [...]
Incumbent Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson and former Anchorage Assembly chair Suzanne LaFrance have advanced to the city’s mayoral runoff. The last day to vote is May [...]
Isaac Ward (right) with his sister Primose (left) and mother Miriam (center) at the UAA Fine Arts Building in Anchorage on Thursday, May 9, 2024. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) 16-year-old [...]
A heavy equipment operator collects one of 18 secure drop boxes from the Anchorage Election Center on March 7, 2024. The drop boxes are deployed across the city for local [...]
Incumbent Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson and former Anchorage Assembly chair Suzanne LaFrance have advanced to the city’s mayoral runoff. The last day to vote is May [...]
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An Alaska State Trooper SUV (Joey Mendolia/Alaska Public Media) An employee of a Wasilla bingo hall is accused of following a winner to her home Wednesday night and stealing the [...]
Studies suggest that up to 40% of women and 30% of men report dysfunction during intimacy at some point in their lives, but conversations on the [...]
The Delta Fire burns on July 30, 2023 in the Donnelly Training Area southeast of Fairbanks. The fire, which started on July 26, was among those [...]
A police vehicle’s emergency lights flash blue and red. (Valerie Lake/Alaska Public Media) A freight train struck and killed a woman Friday night who was lying in between the tracks [...]
Artist Brianna Toomer poses at Akela Space in downtown Anchorage ahead of her fist solo exhibition. (Ammon Swenson/Alaska Public Media) Anchorage-born Fashion designer and artist Brianna [...]
Cars inside of the Alaska Laser Wash on Lake Otis on May 1st, 2024 (Photo by James Oh / Alaska Public Media) Stories are posted on [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IRg-VUIQOo There’s no question that America is deeply politically divided, but what does this division mean for the future of our country? Longtime PBS NewsHour [...]
(Courtesy of Alaska Trails) Volunteers contribute immensely to our ability to access and enjoy the outdoors. Whether building and maintaining trails, organizing races, teaching and mentoring [...]
A fire that tore through a Wasilla duplex early Wednesday left one person dead, according to first responders. Ken Barkley, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough’s director of emergency services, said the blaze [...]
A clock outside the Nesbett Courthouse in downtown Anchorage reads just after 3 p.m. on August 31, 2022. (Valerie Lake/ Alaska Public Media) Who should decide [...]
The Boney Courthouse in downtown Anchorage, across the street from the larger Nesbett Courthouse, holds the Alaska Supreme Court chambers. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) The administration of Gov. Mike [...]
Lawmakers vote on House Bill 254, a bill that would ban social media accounts for kids under 14 and require adult websites to verify users’ ages. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) [...]
Lawmakers vote on House Bill 254, a bill that would ban social media accounts for kids under 14 and require adult websites to verify users’ ages. [...]
A lot of people were living in tents and under tarps in the woods at Anchorage’s Mountain View snow dump, pictured here on June 27, 2023. Anchorage city workers posted [...]
The Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday about whether a president enjoys broad immunity from criminal prosecution after leaving office. (Nathan Howard/Bloomberg via Getty Images) A majority of the Supreme Court [...]
Rep. Craig Johnson, R-Anchorage, speaks on April 24, 2024 in support of a measure calling for a stay of a court decision that ruled key elements of the state’s homeschool [...]
An aerial photo of a Tuesday, April 23, 2024 plane crash site along the Tanana River near Fairbanks. (From AST) Update, 2 p.m. Tuesday: Alaska State Troopers say responders have [...]
(Image courtesy of the Anchorage Park Foundation) Alaska’s mountains and oceans provide some of the most dramatic landscapes on earth. Anchorage trails have connected the Chugach [...]
Alaska Department of Public Safety communications director Austin McDaniel, left, and Alaska State Troopers Capt. Andrew Gorn, center, answered questions at a public meeting in Sutton Elementary School on Tuesday, [...]
NOAA Fisheries said restricting all Chinook bycatch would effectively close the pollock fishery, which is the largest in the nation, as well as one of the [...]
A trawler plies the waters of Sitka Sound in 2023. (Photo by Max Graham) The Alaska Senate has proposed a new aid package for the state’s fish processing companies — [...]
The Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery in April 2024. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media) This month, Anchorage residents voted down a $4.1 million bond that would’ve fulfilled supporters’ yearslong goal to get [...]
Anchorage police posted a close-up photo of a black bear in a Government Hill dumpster seen Monday, April 15, 2024, on Facebook, calling for residents to give urban wildlife a [...]
Governor Mike Dunleavy discussed his priorities for education and other state issues on Talk of Alaska on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) Gov. Mike Dunleavy is defending [...]
An Anchorage resident begins shoveling her driveway on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) State officials have delayed the usual May 1 deadline for Alaskans in much of [...]
A basketball hoop sits full of snow after an overnight blizzard in Anchorage on Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news [...]
Rep. Ben Carpenter, R-Nikiski, speaks on the House floor on Feb. 28, 2024 during debate on House Joint Resolution 7. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) The Alaska House on Thursday rejected [...]