Casey Grove
Alaska News Nightly HostCasey Grove is host of Alaska News Nightly and a general assignment reporter at Alaska Public Media.
Casey is a lifelong Alaskan, born and raised in Fairbanks, and a graduate of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where he majored in journalism and minored in arctic survival. He’s lived in Anchorage since 2006, and his reporting has taken him all across Alaska, from courtrooms to the Iditarod Trail. Prior to Alaska Public Media, Casey worked at the Anchorage Press, Alaska’s News Source, the Anchorage Daily News and the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.
A love of the outdoors and telling good stories keeps Casey’s roots in Alaska strong.
Reach Casey at cgrove@alaskapublic.org.
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Engine 557 ran on coal when it first came to Alaska in 1944. Using oil, the 557 Restoration Company fired it up again in November. -
The Alaska Wildlife Alliance sued in 2023, and on Dec. 31, 2025, a Superior Court judge ordered the state to pay up. -
Juneau had its snowiest-ever December, and Fairbanks saw its chilliest 30-day stretch in a half-century. -
Anchorage homeless service providers prepare for a frigid cold snap. -
A look back at the top stories of 2025. -
Ryan McDonough, 46, was a cardiologist at Mat-Su Regional Medical Center until the hospital fired him. He resigned from the state Medical Board in November. -
Gov. Mike Dunleavy says he'll introduce a fiscal plan to help solve Alaska's financial woes. -
In her latest disagreement with President Trump, Senator Murkowski calls for re-renaming North America's highest peak Denali. -
The Johnson Tract sits on Native corporation land, surrounded by Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, about 120 miles southwest of Anchorage. -
Griffith died Tuesday peacefully at home in Anchorage, after a life spent trekking more than 10,000 miles across Alaska, the Canadian Arctic, Mexico and Asia.
