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 [...]

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 [...]