The Alaska Department of Public Safety unveiled its draft policy for body-worn cameras for state troopers on Wednesday. Officials anticipate outfitting officers with cameras this spring. (Alaska Department of Public [...]
Reality hit hard this fall when game after game, especially in football, was canceled due to a lack of high school officials across Colorado. That was the wake-up call that [...]
Mary Peltola speaking at the Alaska Oil & Gas Association candidate forum on Wednesday, August 31st, 2022. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) Stories are posted on the statewide [...]
The Boulder City Council on Thursday night approved two amendments to the city’s land use code — one which updates criteria needed for certain projects; and a second, which updates [...]
School bus drivers pack the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District School Board meeting on Wednesday. (Screenshot) Mat-Su bus drivers on strike said Thursday that they’ll head back to the bargaining table, [...]
In 2022, Colorado lost 745 lives on its roadways, the most traffic deaths in the state since 1981, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation. In response to this significant [...]
The city of Hoonah on May 2, 2019. (David Purdy/KTOO) A vote on whether to recall the mayor of the Southeast Alaska community of Hoonah, Gerald [...]
Ronnie Maynes is no stranger to the city of Longmont having worked as its director of summer camp operations for the last nine years. The city recently announced Maynes as [...]
A female black bear eats as her two cubs play nearby on June 19, 2021, at the Mendenhall Wetlands State Game Refuge in Juneau, Alaska. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/KTOO) Juneau’s [...]
Gilpin County crews were able to put out a train fire near Rollinsville on Wednesday night. A Facebook post at 6:46 p.m. Wednesday from the Gilpin County Sheriff’s Office, crews [...]
Genetic genealogy recently enabled Alaska State Troopers to identify a human skull discovered 25 years ago. Troopers’ Interior Alaska commander, Capt. Eric Spitzer, said the skull was found by a [...]
Mike Sandrock / On Running Just about exactly a year from today, several hundred of the best U.S. distance runners will line up in Orlando, Fla., site of the 2024 [...]
Josh Revak at a memorial for Congressman Don Young at Anchorage Baptist Temple on April 2, 2022. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media) Congresswoman Mary Peltola has chosen Josh Revak, a Republican [...]
Student-athlete Reed Schoenfeld understands the struggle of kids rapidly outgrowing their shoes. His nonprofit Sneaks ‘n Cleats aims to ease this struggle, and several Boulder kids were the recipients of [...]
Members of the media walking up to an exploratory drill rig. 2012. (Jason Sear/KDLG) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, and comments [...]
At college, on campus and in class, Audrea Fryar was one of the few Black people and Black women at the University of Colorado Boulder. Every day, in each of [...]
North Pole Police Chief Steve Dutra, president of the Alaska Association of Police Chiefs, wants to develop a statewide policy manual for all Alaska police forces. (Screenshot/KUAC) As police reform [...]
Reiland Rabaka, left, Founder and Director of the Center for African & African American Studies and Professor of African, African American, and Caribbean studies, gives CU football coach, Deion Sanders, [...]
Mat-Su bus drivers protest for a better contract offer on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. (Courtesy Teamsters Local 959) A midday school bus driver strike that sent Mat-Su Borough families scrambling [...]
BOULDER — Five companies have been selected to compete for $75,000 in prizes next month at the Naturally Boulder Pitch Slam event. The contest will be held on Feb. 23 [...]
This map shows the site of the Willow development on the North Slope of Alaska. The five originally proposed drill sites are marked by squares. (Bureau of Land Management) The [...]
The graceful and alluring work of Denver-based painter Matti Berglund has the ability to transform ordinary interiors into portals of mystique and enchantment. “Fortuna,” a painting by Matti Berglund. (Matti [...]
Anti-Willow protestors gathered in Lafayette Square, in front of the White House, on Jan. 10, 2023. (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media) The Biden administration says it will decide by the end [...]
I should have seen it coming that day back in 2018. I mean, it had the makings of a great story: drama, foreshadow, irony. … But I was naïve. What [...]
Gas prices are displayed at a Mobil gas station in Los Angeles on Oct. 28, 2022. ExxonMobil posted record earnings in 2022, benefitting from a surge in oil prices. (Mario [...]
BROOMFIELD — Only the best basketball games can raise a coach’s blood pressure. Broomfield boys head coach Terrence Dunn knows that experience all too well, after a 25-point lead over [...]
The proposed Pebble Mine site, pictured in 2014. (Jason Sear/KDLG) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, and comments to news@alaskapublic.org. Follow Alaska [...]
Myles Moskowitz, Fairview’s slight-framed, 5-foot-10 guard, went up and over Boulder big man Kyle Blauch for a bucket in the lane in the opening quarter Tuesday night. He put his [...]
Industry watchers say the lukewarm response to the hotly contested sale points to a long-term trend of low interest in the inlet’s federal waters. (Sabine Poux/KDLL) Gas supply from proven [...]
By Juli Saris CSU Extension Boulder County It’s cold and wintry outside — the perfect time to think about sunshine, warmer weather and getting your spring gardening on! Here are [...]
The proposed Pebble mine site, pictured in 2014. (Jason Sear/KDLG) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday morning that it is effectively killing the controversial Pebble mine project in Southwest [...]
Boulder County crews work to rescue a cow after it fell through the ice at Prince Reservoir No. 2 on Tuesday. (Rick Tillery/Mountain View Fire Rescue) Boulder County crews were [...]
Jessica Clayton and her son Mavrick Clayton are seen in an undated photo. (Courtesy Jessica Clayton) The last time Palmer resident Jessica Clayton received food stamps to help feed her [...]
A court-designated “sexually violent predator” has moved to Longmont. Cliff Raymond Lehmkuhl has moved to 815 Meeker Street #A, according to a Facebook post by Longmont police. Lehmkuhl has a [...]
Ballot drop boxes wait to be deployed in the Municipality of Anchorage Election Center on Jan. 14, 2021. (Kavitha George/AKPM) More than half of the seats on the Anchorage Assembly [...]
By Don Menzel The American-led liberal world order that has brought peace (end of Cold War) and prosperity (think China) to much of the world is now in jeopardy of [...]
The remnants of a Kotzebue home that burned on Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. (Alaska Fire Marshal’s Office) Alaska State Troopers say two people were found dead in a burned Kotzebue [...]
DENVER — Colorado’s Office of Just Transition, operated by the Colorado Department of Labor & Employment and the Office of Economic Development & International Trade, will offer grant funding to [...]
This map from the Bureau of Land Management shows the site of the Willow development on the North Slope of Alaska. Willow’s drill sites are marked [...]
LAFAYETTE — Standings and records be damned. Monday night at Dawson School, the Class 3A Mustangs boys basketball team was ready to show something against Mile High League frontrunning Front [...]
Governor Mike Dunleavy at the Governor’s Debate on Resource Development on Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at the Egan Center. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) In his recent [...]
Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has selected Aidan Fitzgerald to serve as its vice president of finance, effective Friday. Alison Medbery is retiring after 27 years of service. Fitzgerald will [...]
Ballot drop boxes wait to be deployed in the Municipality of Anchorage Election Center on Jan. 14, 2021. (Photo by Kavitha George/AKPM) More than half of the seats on the [...]
Save more, spend less and pay off debt are popular New Year’s resolutions — and perhaps the ones most likely to fall by the wayside a few weeks into the [...]
Elizabeth Sunnyboy is seen during a break Wednesday at the Alaska Public Health Association’s annual summit. Sunnyboy, an elder and traditional healer with the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, endured [...]