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 [...]
A group of first grade students play on the playground at Sayéik Gastineau Community School on Jan. 14, 2021, in Juneau, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/KTOO) State education officials continue to dispute [...]
A scene in “When the Moment Comes,” in which a prison guard comes to take Dr. Ziaoallah Ahrari (played by John Sharify) away to his execution. (Courtesy “When the Moment [...]
Gov. Mike Dunleavy, R-Alaska, speaks to reporters on March 15, 2024. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) Gov. Mike Dunleavy released a poll Tuesday that he said shows a majority of Alaskans [...]
At Dillingham’s post office, a poster warns of fentanyl trafficking in Alaska on April 2, 2024. (Christina McDermott/KDLG) In January, Terry Mann stood in front of the Dillingham City Council [...]
An Anchorage Parks and Recreation employee with Healthy Spaces picks up trash around a encampment in a vacant lot next to Cuddy Family Midtown Park on May 9, 2023. The [...]
An Anchorage Parks and Recreation employee with Healthy Spaces picks up trash around a encampment in a vacant lot next to Cuddy Family Midtown Park on May 9, 2023. The [...]
An Anchorage Parks and Recreation employee with Healthy Spaces picks up trash around a encampment in a vacant lot next to Cuddy Family Midtown Park on [...]
The play “When the Moment Comes” tells the story of persecuted and unjustly imprisoned members of the Baha’i faith after the Iranian Revolution in 1979. It [...]
The James M. Fitzgerald U.S. Courthouse & Federal Building in downtown Anchorage on Aug. 31, 2022. (Valerie Kern/Alaska Public Media) Authorities say a man serving a life sentence in Georgia [...]
NOAA is partnering with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to get underwater footage of the entangled whale in Iliuliuk Bay. (Sofia Stuart-Rasi/KUCB) The Alaska Marine Mammal Stranding Network [...]
A sign outside the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, on May 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) The Internal Revenue Service announced last week that nearly 940,000 Americans haven’t filed [...]
Dairy cattle feed at a farm on March 31, 2017, near Vado, N.M. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says cows in multiple states have tested positive for bird flu. (Rodrigo [...]
The Cook Inlet Natural Gas Storage Alaska facility in Kenai stores gas produced when demand is low, in the warmer months. The purchase agreement includes ENSTAR’s majority share in CINGSA. [...]
Kuskokwim king salmon caught near Bethel on June 12, 2018. (Katie Basile/KYUK) The federal government has won a permanent injunction against the state of Alaska in a case important to [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOp-c72Wf80 Hollywood movies and TV shows have traditionally leaned into stereotypes, too often portraying Indigenous Americans using racist tropes that ripple out from TV screens [...]
The Anchorage Police Department, photographed in Downtown Anchorage on Thursday, August 10, 2023. (Dev Hardikar/Alaska Public Media) Anchorage police say residents should be wary of scammers impersonating officers. Anchorage Police [...]
A ballot cast at City Hall during the 2023 Anchorage municipal election. (Elyssa Loughlin/Alaska Public Media) Voting in Anchorage’s 2024 local election has begun. City election officials say more than [...]
The Cook Inlet Natural Gas Storage Alaska facility. (Sabine Poux/KDLL) Alaskans along the railbelt have relied on Cook Inlet gas for heat and power for decades, [...]
Captain Rodney Myers stands on the bridge of the ALS Luna, headed for a berth at the Port of Seattle. The maritime community has been using multiple crowdsourced apps to [...]
Mayoral candidates Dave Bronson, Suzanne LaFrance, Bill Popp, and Chris Tuck participated in a debate hosted by Alaska Public Media and Anchorage Daily News on Thursday, March 21, 2024 moderated [...]
The Aiviq in Unalaska, August 2016. Photo: Sarah Hansen/KUCB U.S. Senators held a rare Friday night session as they worked to pass a $1.2 trillion federal spending bill. Tucked into [...]
Vehicles of Russian emergency services are parked near the burning Crocus City Hall concert venue, following a reported shooting incident, outside Moscow, Russia, March 22. (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters) Russian news agencies [...]
(Photo by Renee Gross/KBBI) Alaskans lost nearly double the amount of money to internet scams last year compared to 2022, according to crime reports to federal authorities. The increase outpaces [...]
Rep. Mary Peltola at a campaign event in Bethel, March 15, 2024. (Sage Smiley/KYUK) Alaska’s sole U.S. representative, Mary Peltola, returned home to Bethel for the Cama-i Dance Festival last [...]
The Unalaska courthouse (Sofia Stuart-Rasi/KUCB) Dustin Ruckman, 23, will face an Unalaska jury in late August on manslaughter charges in a single-vehicle crash off a cliff that killed two teenage [...]
The sign for the Homer Airport Terminal on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023. The airport will have multiple closures from April to October. (Jamie Diep/KBBI) The Homer Airport will have nightly [...]
Gov. Mike Dunleavy, R-Alaska, speaks to reporters on March 15, 2024. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed a bipartisan bill Thursday night that would have significantly boosted state [...]
Gov. Mike Dunleavy, R-Alaska, speaks to reporters on March 15, 2024. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, and comments to news@alaskapublic.org. Follow [...]
Juneau City Manager Katie Koester speaks at an Assembly Committee of the Whole meeting on Monday, March 11, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO) The Juneau School District’s current school closure plan would have it [...]
The Juneau School Board meets in the auditorium of Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé on Tuesday, March 12, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO) The Juneau School Board voted Tuesday night to stick [...]
Iditarod musher Bailey Vitello, during his rookie run in the 2023 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. (Courtesy Bailey Vitello) A snowmachiner collided with a team competing in the Iditarod Trail [...]
The Alaska Club’s South location, off O’Malley Road near the Old Seward Highway, on Tuesday, March 12, 2024. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) Anchorage police are seeking a man accused of [...]
Anchorage Concert Chorus Artistic Director and Conductor Grant Cochran appeared on State of Art to discuss the upcoming performance with the Yale Glee Club. (Ammon Swenson/Alaska [...]
Fairbanks musher Josi Thyr applies foot ointment to a dog’s paw in the Galena checkpoint during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Saturday, March 9, 2024. (Casey Grove/Alaska Public [...]
Mayhem, a lead dog on Anna Berington’s team in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, in her box in Berrington’s dog truck at the race’s ceremonial start on Saturday, March [...]
Schooby, a dog on Nicolas Petit’s Iditarod team, sits on a pad at the race’s ceremonial start in downtown Anchorage on Saturday, March 2, 2024. (Casey Grove/Alaska Public Media) Schooby [...]
Badges for the 2024 election (Getty Images) A group trying to preserve Alaska’s ranked choice voting system has asked a state judge to rule before Election Day on state campaign [...]
Anchorage City Hall on Dec. 8, 2020 (Jeff Chen/Alaska Public Media) The Anchorage Assembly is now on the record asking Alaska’s congressional delegation to support negotiations for a cease-fire and [...]
Boeing workers at the Renton Municipal Airport in Washington finalize assembly of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max jet on Feb. 27. (Jovelle Tamayo for NPR) WASHINGTON — After a [...]
Brent Sass in 2015. A letter from an official at Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates Alaska said “multiple survivors” alleged sexual assault by Sass over the course of a decade. (Loren [...]
Rep. Maxine Dibert, D-Fairbanks, reaches for a handshake from Rep. Stanley Wright, R-Anchorage, who presented the Alaska House with a bipartisan compromise on a key education [...]
Rep. Maxine Dibert, D-Fairbanks, right, speaks with Rep. Stanley Wright, R-Anchorage, who presented the Alaska House with a bipartisan compromise on a key education bill on Feb. 22, 2024. (Eric [...]
Alyssa Sappenfield Leads a rally at Boney Courthouse with help from Fairbanks Climate Action Coalition organizer Arleigh Hitchcock. June 27, 2023. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) Stories [...]
An aerial view of a North Pacific right whale. (NOAA) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, and comments to news@alaskapublic.org. Follow Alaska Public Media on Facebook and on Twitter [...]
A mock-up of what the proposed bronze statue of William Riker in Valdez would look like. (Courtesy of Riker Maneuver) Commander William Riker is many things. A tactical leader. A [...]
Tuesday, February 13, 2024 — Full Episode On today’s program: Perseverance Theatre closes its season with Paula Vogel’s “Indecent” from February 16 through March 3 Set in the early 20th [...]
General Roofing Co. employee Nevada Hansen shovels a path out on an office building’s roof on Business Park Boulevard in Anchorage on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. A different crew was [...]
An Anchorage Police Department vehicle, photographed in Downtown Anchorage on Thursday, August 10, 2023. (Dev Hardikar/Alaska Public Media) The city of Anchorage has reached a legal settlement with the organization [...]
Hilcorp Senior Vice President Luke Saugier testifies to a joint meeting of the House and Senate Energy Committees on Feb. 7, 2024. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) [...]