Casey Grove, Alaska Public Media - Anchorage
Casey Grove is host of Alaska News Nightly, a general assignment reporter and an editor at Alaska Public Media. Reach him at cgrove@alaskapublic.org. Read more about Casey here.
LISTEN: Satellite broadband service to touch every corner of Alaska by year’s end
There’s a project in the works to bring wireless, broadband internet to all of Alaska, this time via satellite.
Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Feb. 7, 2020
Little public information released so far about the Yute Air crash that killed five passengers in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. Also, the Kaktovik school, a gathering place for the entire community, burns to the ground. And and update from Dawson City, the halfway point of the Yukon Quest sled dog race.
Sex abuse victim advocates call Anchorage Archdiocese report too little, too late
None of the Catholic priests reported to have been involved in sexual misconduct in a 50-year review of records released last month by the Anchorage Archdiocese was ever convicted of a crime. There is also no indication the report has prompted any new criminal investigations since its release.
LISTEN: Drug and alcohol misuse costs Alaska $3.5B annually. Here’s how we know the price tag.
That’s according to a report released earlier this month by the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority, with the hopes that the data will better inform policymakers’ decisions for the benefit of Alaskans.
LISTEN: Alaska twins to show Rottweilers at Westminster
Thirteen-year-olds Carson and Camryn Hayes will show their two, roughly 100-pound Rottweilers as junior handlers.
Ask a Climatologist: Proposal in Alaska House would create special committee on climate change
The resolution acknowledges the many effects of rapid climate warming on Alaska's economy and ecology -- among other things -- and the committee would be tasked with advancing the understanding of climate change, mitigating its negative impacts and helping the state adapt to it.
LISTEN: What do Murkowski’s impeachment questions mean about how she’ll vote? Analysts hear different things.
It was question-and-answer day Wednesday in the impeachment trial of President Trump, and a lot of people are analyzing the questions of Sen. Lisa Murkowski for clues.
LISTEN: Alaska historians anxious over proposal to move archives — again
Historians are getting worried -- and mobilizing -- over yet another proposal to move federally owned historical records of Alaska even farther away from the state.
Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020
Debate over the PFD fractures the Senate Majority caucus and the recall Dunleavy campaign resumes after an accidental delay.
LISTEN: Difficult-to-predict explosions at Shishaldin Volcano could go on for months
There was a massive explosion at Shishaldin Volcano on Sunday, sending volcanic ash several miles up into the sky and lava streaming down its flank.
LISTEN: Historian reveals city’s overlooked past in ‘Histories of Anchorage’ column
There’s been some new writing recently about old happenings in Alaska’s largest city. It’s in a column called Histories of Anchorage that has appeared in the Anchorage Daily News a couple times so far since the new year.
LISTEN: Subzero Anchorage temps a matter of life and death for those experiencing homelessness
It has been cold in Alaska lately, and while that can be uncomfortable or inconvenient for some, it’s a threat to life and limb for Alaskans without a reliable, warm place to sleep.
Ask a Climatologist: Recent cold is a rare return to Alaska’s frigid winters of yesteryear
University of Alaska Fairbanks climatologist Brian Brettschneider says the prolonged cold for much of Alaska is not a wild deviation from the norm, even if recent years have been much warmer. Instead, Brettschneider says, it's actually a return to the norm.
LISTEN: Attla documentary shows legend’s last race, to teach dog mushing before he died
As Alaska heads into the heart of sled dog racing season, there's some new required watching for sprint mushing fans in a recently released documentary film about the legendary Huslia Hustler himself, George Attla.
Some Mat-Su residents still without road access to homes, a week into Willow Creek flood
Flood-stricken residents of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough near Willow Creek continue to deal with blocked roads preventing easy access to their homes.
Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Dec. 27, 2019
Cold temperatures settle across large swaths of the state. A new conservative proposal for combating climate change.
Alaska’s 2019 likely to be state’s warmest year ever. Yes, again.
The statewide average temperature for Alaska in 2019 is on pace to break a record set just three years earlier. That is, if a cold snap doesn't change things.
Bethel principal, accused of sending sexual texts to girl, goes before a judge
A Bethel elementary school principal charged with online enticement of a minor and transferring obscene material to a minor made his initial appearance in federal court in Anchorage Tuesday.
Senior employee, APD officer embezzled $7.3M from ConocoPhillips, according to civil filing
Oil company ConocoPhillips is suing its former senior drilling and wells planner and a small group of co-conspirators, including an Anchorage police officer, for a scheme in which they allegedly embezzled nearly $7.3 million.
Report: Pilot drank alcohol before Girdwood crash that killed 4
A pilot killed in a plane crash along with three passengers near Girdwood last summer had been drinking alcohol prior to flying, according to a report from the National Transportation Safety Board.