The Kuskokwim River. (Travis S./Flickr Creative Commons) An Anchorage man is dead after his plane crashed near McGrath on Saturday, according to Alaska State Troopers.  Troopers [...]

Written by comedic legend and actor, Steve Martin, “Meteor Shower” is a unique comedy that follows two couples spending the evening together for a celestial event [...]

Mobile homes at a trailer court in Valdez, Alaska on Aug. 15, 2024. Roughly a quarter of Valdez’s housing units are mobile or manufactured homes, and city officials hope to [...]

Lt. Marc Patzke gives a tour of an indoor gun range at the Anchorage Police Department Training Center on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public [...]

Nick Begich III and Mary Peltola at Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (James Oh/Alaska Public Media) Stories are posted on the statewide [...]

Nick Begich III and Mary Peltola during a lighter moment at a candidates’ forum on Wednesday (James Oh/Alaska Public Media) Alaska Congresswoman Mary Peltola and challenger Nick Begich III vied [...]

A woman waits for the rescue of her loved ones immediately after the Ketchikan landslide. (Jack Darrell/KRBD) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, [...]

A woman waits for the rescue of her loved ones immediately after the Ketchikan landslide. (Jack Darrell/KRBD) Marty Gillet was in his home in Ketchikan’s White Cliff neighborhood on Sunday [...]

Houses on 2nd Avenue destroyed by the landslide on Aug. 25, 2024 (Jack Darrell/KRBD) Emergency crews are responding to a large landslide that killed one person and destroyed several houses [...]

Shoppers come and go from Fred Meyer and Carrs stores that face each other across the Seward Highway in Midtown Anchorage on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024. The parent companies of [...]

Anchorage Police Chief Sean Case discusses officers’ Friday, Aug. 23, 2024 shooting and wounding of a suspect in a homicide the previous day. (From APD Facebook page) Anchorage police officers [...]

Haze smiles as he waits to pull a sled at the Norris Glacier dog sledding camp on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO) Stories are posted [...]

A large primnoid coral loaded with brittle stars, a marine relative of sea stars. The underwater image was captured on the Dickins Seamount during a 2004 research cruise in the [...]

Levi Gionet helps a voter cast his ballot for Alaska’s primary election at Anchorage School District on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) Last updated: 11:55 p.m. Tuesday, [...]

There are more than 4,600 hospitals in the U.S., and 49% of them are nonprofit and therefore tax-exempt. The CEOs of these nonprofit health systems now earn, on average, $1.3 [...]

Severe flooding is seen in the coastal community of Kwigillingok on the morning of Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024. (Courtesy Lewis Martin) A series of large storms have left some Western [...]

Attendees hold hands during a moment of silence at the vigil on Friday, Aug 16, 2024. (Anisa Vietze/Alaska Public Media) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, [...]

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 [...]