Musher Nic Petit changes his wet socks after running into overflow on the Chena River during his first run of the Quest. (Lex Treinen/KUAC) The Yukon [...]

By Jennifer Ochs and Nicole Speer This winter has brought the two of us together in co-misery. As a wheelchair user, Jennifer must rely on public transportation. As a non-wheelchair [...]

Mat-Su bus drivers protest for a better contract offer on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. (Courtesy Teamsters Local 959) The Mat-Su school bus driver strike is pressing on with no end [...]

TODAY Branford Marsalis Quartet: In the Grammy-nominated “The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul,” the Branford Marsalis Quartet performs its most emotionally wide-ranging and melody-driven collection of music to [...]

(Photo Courtesy of Sitka Fine Arts Camp) This week on State of Art we’re learning about the Sitka Fine Arts Camp. They’re celebrating 50 years of [...]

THORNTON — The top of the podium was occupied by three different locals at the Class 5A state swim championships Friday night at Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center. Well, four if [...]

Sen. Dan Sullivan at an undated Senate Commerce Committee hearing. (Still from U.S. Senate video) After a U.S. Air Force fighter jet shot down an unidentified object over Alaska’s North Slope on [...]

Snapshot: CU Buffs women 71, Washington State 68 Turning point: Down nine points going into the fourth quarter, CU opened the frame on a 14-3 run to not only get [...]

Stove technician Steve Sanders shows black carbon build-up in a Toyo Laser 531/532 (Photo Courtesy of Sam Trivette) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news [...]

Boulder • 30th Street and Colorado Avenue underpass project: Left turns will be restricted westbound, eastbound and southbound for underpass construction. Sidewalk detours where noted (southeast quadrant sidewalks closed); use [...]

A Chinese balloon flies above Billings, Montana, on Feb. 1, 2023. (Photo by Chase Doak, special to States Newsroom) An F-22 fighter jet from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson shot down an unidentified [...]

Longmont police helped serve a “high-risk warrant” related to a Boulder incident. Longmont police posted on Facebook at 2:30 p.m. that officers were serving a search warrant and arrest warrant [...]

Petersburg’s high school (File/KFSK) There’s no question about it: Travel is back. As the pandemic fades, Americans are going on business trips, flying to conferences, and going on vacation. In [...]

The defendant in a Longmont drive-by shooting case is set for trial this fall. Yahir Solis, 19, is charged with felony counts of first-degree murder after deliberation; first-degree murder – [...]

Jim Burkholder at Kincaid Park. (Courtesy of Jim Burkholder) On this week’s Outdoor Explorer, we’ll talk about the development of the ski trail system at Kincaid [...]

TODAY Stage An audience favorite from the Denver Center’s 2020 New Play Summit, “Hotter Than Egypt,” is the tale of an American couple’s own personal revolution erupting during a trip [...]

ABL’s RS-1 rocket shortly after liftoff on Jan. 10, 2023. The rocket was destroyed after its engines shut down prematurely. (Courtesy ABL Space Systems) California-based aerospace company ABL Space Systems [...]

Local Girl Scouts were treated Thursday afternoon to a tour of Sweet Cow Ice Cream in Longmont, one of two locations where the company’s signature Girl Scout cookie ice cream [...]

The Bartlett High School class of 2022 commencement. (Adam Nicely/Alaska Public Media) A state-funded scholarship program to encourage students to stay in Alaska for college reported its lowest eligibility numbers [...]

The Boulder City Council on Thursday night heard staff’s recommendations for updates to the city’s land use and homelessness policy statements, which will better align the city with top regional, [...]

Ketchikan High School (Leila Kheiry/KRBD) 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. [...]

With California moving to universal school lunches this year and providing more support for purchasing local food, Christina Lawson is working on moving her small school district north of Sacramento [...]

The Mat-Su Health Foundation, based in Wasilla, supports community health initiatives throughout the borough. (Courtesy of Mat-Su Health Foundation) Billionaire philanthropist Mackenzie Scott recently published a website listing the more [...]

It’s a tradition almost as beloved as the big game itself. Tucking into some saucy, crispy wings as the players take to field. Nervously nibbling on chips or pretzels between [...]

A running girl (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Photosightfaces) South Peninsula Haven House is seeking volunteer coaches and participants for its program Girls on the Run. The Homer-based nonprofit supports those impacted by domestic [...]

Loulillian Watson (Boulder County Sheriff’s Office) A Boulder woman accused of stabbing a man in the stomach last year has entered into a plea agreement and been given a deferred [...]

Team Ketchikan NYO coach Starla Agoney stretches with her youngest son Henry Agoney during warm-ups at a recent practice. (Raegan Miller/KRBD) Seven young Ketchikan athletes will fly to Juneau in [...]

TODAY Women Writing Colorado book signing: Rachel King, Claire Boyles, Wendy J. Fox and Jenny Shank will speak about and sign their short story collections set in Colorado at Boulder [...]

Kodiak History Museum workers are taking digital images of items in the museum’s collection. (Courtesy Margaret Greutert/Kodiak History Museum) The Kodiak History Museum received a $48,000 federal grant last fall [...]

Lafayette small, local businesses may receive free consultation and advice for how to improve their business. Director of Economic Development Brigid Keating provided City Council with an update Tuesday night [...]

Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson at an Anchorage Assembly meeting on Jan. 24, 2023. It was the first Assembly meeting since since numerous allegations of unethical and [...]

The Boulder Police Oversight Panel, which met Wednesday night for its first regular meeting since the City Council approved the new panelists and alternates, discussed the onboarding process for the [...]

Dr. Anne Zink, chief medical officer for the State of Alaska, briefed reporters on the coronavirus at a press conference with Gov. Mike Dunleavy on March 10, 2020. (Liz Ruskin/Alaska [...]

Mount Evans Drive in Longmont won’t be renamed anytime soon, if at all. During Tuesday’s City Council study session, Councilman Tim Waters asked the council to reconsider its previous decision [...]

A sunflower sea star is seen on the ocean floor. They are some of the world’s biggest sea stars. Their habitat ranges from waters from the western tip of the [...]

Juan Aranda (Boulder County Sheriff’s Office) A Longmont man was arrested and accused of possessing and distributing child sexual abuse material. Juan Ramon Aranda, 37, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion [...]

Soldotna Republican Rep. Justin Ruffridge on the campaign trail last fall. Ruffridge said on the House floor that he and the other legislators in the Freshman Caucus are seeing a [...]

Lafayette police are still searching for the suspect in a shooting at a mobile home park Tuesday afternoon. According to police radio traffic, dispatchers around 1:50 p.m. Tuesday received a [...]

Dave Bronson, left, at a news conference on May 24, 2021, after being elected mayor of Anchorage, alongside Larry Baker, who was one of the leaders of his transition team. [...]

TODAY Open mic at Vision Quest: Jam out with music-makers at this singer-songwriter open mic hosted by Jim Herlihy (of Boulder band Augustus). Sign up at 5:30 p.m.; live music [...]

Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson at a special Assembly meeting on Oct. 14, 2021. (Jeff Chen/Alaska Public Media) The Anchorage Assembly voted on Tuesday to sue the administration of Mayor Dave [...]

Boulder’s Riley Stein, right, puts up a shot over Erie’s Jett Hinze during their game Tuesday night in Boulder. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer) Riley Stein has placed his body in peril [...]

The James M. Fitzgerald U.S. Courthouse & Federal Building in downtown Anchorage. (Valerie Kern/Alaska Public Media) Two Anchorage women are accused of stealing identities to siphon $100,000 from an elderly [...]

When Longmont Symphony Orchestra Music Director Elliot Moore took the podium in the Council Chambers on Tuesday night, it wasn’t to conduct any music. Instead, Moore proposed a public-private partnership [...]

State senator Josh Revak (R-Anchorage) at the memorial for Rep. Don Young at Anchorage Baptist Temple on April 2, 2022. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media) Stories are [...]

Boulder’s Dominic Trudgeon, left, battles for a loose ball with Erie’s Callen Gebhardt, right, in Boulder on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer) Boulder’s Kyle Blauch looks to shoot [...]

Petersburg and Wrangell public health nurse Erin Michael shows the contents of a free opioid overdose kit. (Rachel Cassandra/KMXT) Southeast Alaska has seen an uptick in pills laced with fentanyl, [...]

The City of Boulder’s Youth Internship Program is accepting applications until filled. The program promotes “youth civic engagement and leadership development, organizes community events and provides youth perspective and recommendations [...]

Members of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s cabinet stand for applause during the governor’s 2023 State of the State address on Monday, Jan. 23, 2023, at the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau, [...]

Boston University researchers say they have now diagnosed 345 former NFL players with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) out of 376 former players studied. In comparison to that 91.7% CTE rate [...]