Major General Hilbert apologizes to Wrangell Cooperative Association on Jan. 11, 2025 for bombarding Ḵaachx̱aana.áakʼw 155 years ago. (Colette Czarnecki/KSTK) A large group of people greeted each other with morning [...]
The finish line of the 45th annual Kuskokwim 300. (MaryCait Dolan/KYUK) The 2025 Kuskokwim 300 has been pushed back two weeks because of poor snowfall and looming above-freezing temperatures, according [...]
Students walk off a bus to the Thunder Mountain Middle School entrance for the first day of school on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO) The Juneau School District says [...]
Flooding in Kwigillingok on Jan. 10, 2025. (Courtesy Lewis Martin) Strong tidal action and fierce southerly winds inundated low-lying areas of the Kuskokwim Delta coastal community of Kwigillingok on Friday [...]
A male deer licks a tree branch at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center on Friday, Jan. 10, 2025. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) The Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center raised over $30,000 [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/20250110-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Juneau’s Áak’w Rock Indigenous Music Festival postponed until 2027, The new district attorney in Juneau sat down with KTOO’s Yvonne Krumrey to talk about the job, [...]
Juneau District Attorney Whitney Bostick on Jan. 9, 2025. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO) Whitney Bostick became Juneau’s new district attorney in November. Bostick grew up in Palmer and previously worked [...]
Anchorage Police Chief Sean Case (left) and Mayor Suzanne LaFrance speak to reporters on Aug. 15, 2024 at APD headquarters. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media) A consultant hired by Anchorage’s municipal [...]
Cottongrass wafts over the tundra in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Sept. 2, 2006. (S. Hillebrand/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) No bids were received in the second congressionally managed [...]
Downtown Anchorage skyline, viewed from Tony Knowles Coastal Trail on Nov. 18, 2022. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) A new state population estimate shows Alaska has 741,147 residents, an increase of more [...]
Roblin Gray Davis (right) clowning around with his brother W. Scott Davis. (Photo courtesy of Roblin Gray Davis) This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing weekly perspectives from [...]
Sea ice floats in the Bering Strait off Cape Prince of Wales. (UAF photo by Gay Sheffield) WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Biden announced Monday that he is banning offshore oil [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/20250103-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Applications for the 2025 PFD opened on New Year’s Day and will stay open until March 31, Ketchikan has a new police chief, A new report [...]
Juneau Afternoon: The new Widows & Widowers Garden Support Group begins next week in JuneauJanuary 2, 2025On this episode: The Widows & Widowers Garden Support Group is forming in Juneau, [...]
Construction workers attend to outdoor tasks on Dec. 17, 2024, at a residential project being built in downtown Anchorage. Alaska is expected to gain 1,500 construction jobs this year, according [...]
National Renewable Energy Laboratory Fairbanks campus Chief Scientist Tom Marsik describes how the lab is testing LG’s new air-source heat pump prototype, which is supposed to be an effective home [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/202412312024-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: A union representing nurses at Providence Alaska has filed three unfair labor practice charges against the hospital, Tongass Voices: Juneau Animal Rescue on the joy of [...]
Juneau Animal Rescue Executive Director Rick Driscoll and Board Member Amber Hawke pose with the 2025 Alaska Pets Calendar on Dec. 18, 2024. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO). This is Tongass [...]
A fitted with a tracking collar walks through muskeg on Mitkof Island in 2020. (Photo courtesy of Dan Eacker/ADF&G) This is Lingít Word of the Week. Each week, we feature [...]
Southeast Alaska Food Bank in Juneau. November 15, 2022. (Photo by Claire Stremple/KTOO) https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/26gustavus-.wav The small Southeast Alaska town of Gustavus is hosting a food drive this weekend. And it’s [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/20241226-News-Update.wav In this newscast: A Juneau woman died after she was shot and killed by a Juneau Police officer in the parking lot of the Mendenhall Valley Breeze In convenience [...]
Nikolski School students gather on couches as teacher Lynette Hall and teacher’s aide Tatyana Hillhouse review homework assignments at the end of the school day. (Sofia Stuart-Rasi/KUCB) Nikolski’s one-room purple [...]
Skagway School Superintendent Josh Coughran talks with students at lunch time. (Melinda Munson/KHNS) Skagway School District has just one school, a one-story building that serves the families of the small [...]
Tape surrounds the Valley Breeze In as police investigate the death of a woman involving a police officer on Christmas morning on Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO) A woman [...]
Teshekpuk Caribou Herd animals graze in June of 2014 in the northeastern part of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. The land around Teshekpuk Lake is considered key habitat for [...]
Beavers build dams to create ponds, where they build underwater lodges. The deep water offers protection from predators. (Photo courtesy of SEALT) This is Lingít Word of the Week. Each [...]
Juneau Afternoon: Juneau Symphony offers "Holiday Cheer" concertDecember 13, 2024On this episode: A preview of Juneau Symphony's "Holiday Cheer" concert on Sat, Dec. 14, and Sun, Dec. 15; Christmas Light [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/20241220-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Those still hoping to put up a Christmas tree can harvest their own in Southeast Alaska, Juneau utility staff say they need to raise residents’ water [...]
Alan Steffert with the city’s Engineering and Public Works department fields questions at an informational meeting about utility rates at Thunder Mountain Middle School on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024. (Clarise [...]
The entrance to PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center’s emergency department on Dec. 15, 2024. (Photo by Jack Darrell/KRBD) The PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center Emergency Department is staffed 24 hours a day, [...]
Attendees wearing gear embroidered with the name “F/V Wind Walker” bow their heads for a moment of silence during Sitka’s community vigil on Saturday, December 7. The Wind Walker was [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/20241216-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Two bowhead whales were harvested in the same afternoon near St. Lawrence Island, A recent state report found that the Alaska Office of Children’s Services failed [...]
A moose grazes in Anchorage on April 19, 2023. (Photo by Brian Venua/KMXT) This is Lingít Word of the Week. Each week, we feature a Lingít word voiced by master [...]
Midtown Anchorage, blanketed in snow, on December 3, 2019. (Photo by Joey Mendolia/Alaska Public Media) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, and comments to news@alaskapublic.org. Follow [...]
One of several ash piles near the entrance to White Sands Beach near Kodiak. The beach is a popular spot for bonfires, fishing, bear watching, walks, [...]
A KC-135 Stratotanker assigned to Eielson’s 168th Wing, with iconic polar bear image on the tail, touches down after a refueling mission in March 2021. (From Defense Visual Information Distribution [...]
A group of students in Galena learning about EV engines. (Courtesy Jen Schmidt) Transportation within remote, Alaska communities that are inaccessible by road usually means burning gas or diesel. For [...]
FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks during an Election Threats Task Force meeting at the Justice Department in September 2024. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday announced he [...]
A shopper pushes a cart through a Kroger supermarket in Newport, Ky. (Al Behrman/AP | AP) A federal judge in Oregon has blocked temporarily the merger of grocery giants Kroger [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) The Supreme Court declined to intervene or overturn a Hawaii State Supreme Court decision that allowed the state to prosecute a man carrying [...]
(left to right) Enstar CEO John Sims, Chugach Electric government affairs manager Trish Baker, Northern Journal journalist Nat Herz, Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Peter Micciche and REAP executive director Chris [...]
(left to right) Enstar CEO John Sims, Chugach Electric government affairs manager Trish Baker, Northern Journal journalist Nat Herz, Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Peter Micciche and [...]
Construction in downtown Anchorage in August 2023. The construction industry saw 6% job growth last year. (Dev Hardikar/Alaska Public Media) The average wage in Alaska rose 3.5 times faster than [...]
Norton Sound, part of the Northern Bering Sea, is seen from the outskirts of Nome on Sept. 30, 2020. Record-low winter ice in 2018, followed by near-record low ice in [...]
The J. Edgar Hoover building — Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters — is photographed on Oct. 8, 2024. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images) WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Trump transition [...]
Cody Pitka points at a pepper growing at Angoon High School’s hydroponic facility on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO) In the remote Southeast Alaska village of Angoon, high school [...]
Andy Rogers, owner of Tier 1 Cards & Games (right), recently joined Hometown, Alaska host, Dave Waldron, to discuss what’s happening in the world of tabletop [...]
Saoirse Rearden speaks about the proposed closure of Bear Valley Elementary School during an Anchorage School Board meeting on Nov. 4, 2024. (Matt Faubion / Alaska [...]
Pallets of Amazon packages stacked taller than a man on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. (Matt Faubion) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, [...]
Anchorage police officers ride bikes around University Lake on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) Anchorage police have stepped up patrols around the popular University Lake Park after a [...]