Boulder’s scenic Chautauqua Park was bursting with activity Saturday afternoon as thousands of community members observed the Colorado Chautauqua’s 125th anniversary. Alice, front, and her aunt, Kelly, dance to the [...]
Anton McParland works two phones at once in Congresswoman Mary Peltola’s Washington, D.C. office, where he is chief of staff. He’s also her campaign manager. (Liz [...]
Amid bouts of soggy weather over the past few months that have brought several inches of rainfall to Boulder County, 2023 is shaping up to be a wetter-than-normal year for [...]
Ryan Mosley holds Mosley No. 1, a custom electric guitar modeled on the Fender Telecaster. Mosley built the instrument this spring in Sitka’s CTE (Career and Technical Education) program, formerly [...]
A 13-year-old boy with autism spectrum disorder was abandoned by his father at UCHealth Longs Peak emergency department for several weeks and received little to no help from state and [...]
Christy Marvin win the Mount Marathon women’s race on July 4, 2023. This is Marvin’s third Mount Marathon victory. Her son won the boy’s race. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) Stories [...]
Boulder County Commissioners have scheduled a public hearing for 1 p.m. Wednesday to request termination of a conservation easement on Kanemoto Estates for the construction of a mixed housing development. [...]
Runners take off at the starting line of the Mount Marathon men’s race in Seward on July 4, 2023. (Dev Hardikar/Alaska Public Media) More than 800 runners tackled rain and [...]
People listen to the Boulder "School of Rock" perform before drones take to the sky above Folsom Field on Tuesday. After severe weather delays, Boulder's Fourth of July drone show [...]
Boaters anchor in Juneau’s harbor to watch its Fourth of July fireworks. (Heather Bryant/KTOO) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, and comments to news@alaskapublic.org. Follow Alaska [...]
Under the cover of a dark gray July sky, more than 30,000 fans of Dead and Company gathered Monday at Folsom Field to say goodbye to the last remaining vestiges [...]
Musicians perform at an Anchorage Chamber Music Festival concert. (Courtesy of Anchorage Chamber Music Festival) This week on State of Art we’re hearing from the Anchorage [...]
Summer Sundays on Pearl Street offer espresso, both the coffee and the swing band. Espresso! is a Boulder-based swing and jazz band. On Sundays, the band plays a free show [...]
Downtown Anchorage on June 30, 2021 (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media) Anchorage’s main electric utility is planning to raise base rates for the first time in three years. Chugach Electric Association [...]
Jessica Ramoska feeds her daughter, Roxanne, pizza at the celebration. The Lafayette Chamber held an Independence Day Fun and Fireworks celebration at Waneka Lake on Saturday. (Cliff Grassmick / Staff [...]
Programs staff with the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission use a dip net to harvest sockeye salmon on the Kuskokwim River near Bethel on June 28, [...]
Rainbows decorated Roosevelt Park as community members came together for the Longmont Pride Festival, a free event Friday evening to celebrate and close out LGBTQ Pride Month. LGBTQ advocacy nonprofit [...]
Harm reduction specialist Venus Woods holds Kloxxado, an opioid overdose treatment. Last year, her organization 4As gave out 2,500 kits in Anchorage, Juneau and the Mat-Su [...]
Beginning Saturday, MediaNews Group — which includes Prairie Mountain Media newspapers — will no longer host comments on its websites. We understand that comments can be a good way to [...]
Jerry Miller shows off ground plastic, ready to be melted into lumber. (Riley Board/KDLL) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, and comments [...]
Longmont will once again celebrate LGBTQ Pride Month on Friday with Longmont Pride Festival, presented by Out Boulder County. This is the first time the free festival will take place [...]
The Parks Highway Igloo, midway between Anchorage and Fairbanks, in 2021. (Emily Schwing/Alaska Public Media) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, and [...]
Four people sustained injuries Monday following a crash on Boulder Canyon Drive and Summer Access Road that had portions of the road closed for several hours. At 4:55 p.m. on [...]
US Sen. Dan Sullivan (left) and US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy speak at a roundtable in Anchorage addressing youth mental health in Alaska. (Rachel Cassandra/Alaska Public [...]
Prior to last year, his first at TCU, Sonny Dykes had enough of a track record as a head coach to show a pattern. Dykes’ first three head coaching stops [...]
Northern Pacific Airways CEO Rob McKinney discusses the new airline at an unveiling of their first class lounge at Ted Stevens Airport on June 21, 2023. (Maria Koop/Alaska Public Media) [...]
The wheels of a car have long ruled the streets, but on Sunday in Boulder, Rollerpalooza had the streets back to different kinds of wheels — bikes, roller skates and [...]
Water floods buildings in Glennallen on Monday, May 15, 2023. (Photo courtesy Kayla Bruno/Copper Valley IGA) State emergency management officials are working to make relief funding more accessible for communities [...]
From the Broomfield, Boulder and Longmont areas, 47 local players were named to the girls soccer all-state teams presented by the Colorado High School Activities Association. Broomfield’s Reagan Kotschau, the [...]
Parks & Rec maintenance lead Lane Fitzjarrald watches over the pool refilling process, June 22, 2023.(Sage Smiley / KSTK) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send [...]
Boulder Housing Partners will be one of 12 housing developers in the state to receive 9% federal and state housing tax credits for its project at Diagonal Plaza. The agency [...]
Chum salmon migration. (USFWS/Togiak National Wildlife Refuge) 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 [...]
The Boulder City Council at a Thursday special meeting approved an emergency ordinance to place a partial moratorium on the work of the city’s Police Oversight Panel. The council previously [...]
Trollers fish for salmon in Sitka Sound. (Berett Wilber) 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 @AKPublicNews. [...]
Three Pueblo defendants tied to a series of bank robberies along the Front Range, including Boulder, were federally charged on Wednesday. Leo Elias Benavidez, 34; Ashley Raeanne Cooper, 33; and [...]
Arnaq Esther Ilutsik stands with Superintendent Steeve Noonkesser at an event honoring their retirement. (Christina McDermott/KDLG) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, and comments to news@alaskapublic.org. [...]
The Longmont City Council decided to support city staff in their pursuit of a microtransit system for Longmont during its regular Tuesday night meeting. In three votes of 6-0, the [...]
Gov. Mike Dunleavy announces two education bills on March 7, 2023. (Screenshot via YouTube) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, and comments [...]
Freedom and unity — that’s what we celebrate during Juneteenth, said educator and award-winning author Alice Faye Duncan. Duncan gave an interactive, multimedia talk Monday at the University of Colorado [...]
This November 2018 screenshot from Russian television shows John Martin III standing in downtown Anadyr, a city of roughly 15,000 people in Russia’s Far East. (Screenshot by CoastAlaska) Anchorage police [...]
Scents, tastes, clothing and memories were available at the Makers Market on Sunday. Sanitas Brewery, 3550 Frontier Ave. in Boulder, hosts a Makers Market every third Sunday of the month, [...]
Jeremy Cubas, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s former pro-family policy advisor, addressed members of the Alaska Family Council in this undated video he taped for the governor’s office. (Screenshot) Stories are [...]
Longmont observed its annual Juneteenth Celebration at Roosevelt Park in Longmont on Saturday. Above, Makenna, 4, dances with the Juneteenth flag. Right, Annett James, president of NAACP Boulder County, looks [...]
Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson listens during an Anchorage Assembly meeting on July 12, 2022. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media) Anchorage taxpayers will foot the entire bill for settling a construction contractor’s [...]
When Chrisly Kelly-Cannon stepped onto the Jeffco Stadium track for the Class 3A 100-meter dash at last month’s state track and field championships, his mother Jacqueline Kelly couldn’t contain her [...]
U.S. Forest Service fish biologist, Eric Castro, along with his dog, Redden, checks a minnow trap in a tiny stream in Petersburg’s Sandy Beach Park. (Photo by Angela Denning/CoastAlaska) Stories [...]
Boulder City Council unanimously voted Thursday evening to approve the drafting of a partial moratorium on the work of the city’s Police Oversight Panel. “I know it’s been a difficult [...]
The Northwest Arctic Borough building in Kotzebue. (Desiree Hagen/KOTZ) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, and comments to news@alaskapublic.org. Follow Alaska Public [...]
The Boulder Police Oversight Panel has been without an independent police monitor for the better part of a year, but at a panel meeting Wednesday evening city staff said progress [...]
Pharmacist Andre Neptune holds vials of Cisplatin and Carboplatin. They’re chemotherapy drugs in short supply in Alaska. (Cassandra/AKPM) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news [...]