Casey Grove, Alaska Public Media - Anchorage

Casey Grove, Alaska Public Media - Anchorage
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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
A 50th anniversary copy of the Alaska State Constitution sits on the top of a table.

Alaska’s constitutional right to an abortion at heart of new podcast, ‘Private Right’

The Alaska Beacon's new podcast is produced and hosted by journalist Lisa Phu.
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Alaska lawmakers look at election results and ponder policies, politics and personalities in coalition discussions

Alaska Beacon reporter James Brooks says some state senators have been talking about the very real possibility of forming a coalition. But the future of a coalition-controlled House is much murkier.
A man with a green T shirt faces the camera for a mugshot in front of lines showing his height.

Alaska ski legend Dean Cummings acquitted in New Mexico murder trial

Cummings, the former World Extreme Skiing Champion behind the now-defunct Valdez-based H2O Guides, walked out of jail a short time after the verdict Tuesday, a free man for the first time in more than two years.
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Alaska could see effects of Indian Child Welfare Act challenge heard by Supreme Court

Community reporting fellow Chen Chen with KTOO has been following the case — called Haaland v. Brackeen — and reporting on what ICWA means to Alaska.
a human holds a bird

This Alaska-born bird flew 8,500 miles to Tasmania, and we’re still not totally sure how it did it

Before it was internationally famous, B6 was just another godwit chick in Alaska, where wildlife biologist Dan Ruthrauff with the U.S. Geological Survey found it.
a dog runs through the snow while the sun sets

Alaska sees third La Niña winter forecast in a row

What would an ancient human think of all this?

Alaska Senate could see flip to coalition control if Republicans remain divided after election

With Republicans showing divisions in the state Senate, there's speculation that a coalition majority like in the House could form there as well.

Will the Alaska House have another coalition majority checking the governor? For now, it’s hard to say.

With Alaska's Election Day less than a week away, one of the biggest questions is whether there will again be a coalition majority in control of the state House.

The Alaska commission that investigates discrimination has been sued for alleged discrimination

Marilyn Stewart’s lawsuit alleges that – because she is Black, a woman and a military veteran – two former commissioners convinced others to vote to terminate her employment in 2019.

Alaska volunteers want to know: What happened to the ‘Lost Alaskans’ sent to this Portland mental hospital?

At least 3,500 Alaskans believed to be mentally ill were sent to Oregon's Morningside Hospital, many of them Alaska Natives. Many of their families never saw them again.

Iditarod drops COVID vaccination requirement, says decision not linked to mushers

The announcement comes as mushers have been slow to sign up for the 51st running of Iditarod, with only 26 listed as of Tuesday.

AFN to host session on hate and discrimination with Anti-Defamation League

The ADL was founded more than a hundred years ago to fight anti-Semitism. But their mission also includes securing "fair and just treatment to all," and for its Pacific Northwest office, that includes in Alaska.
A maroon building with blue lettering that says "North Star Residential Treatment Center"

Anchorage child psychiatric hospital scrutinized in federal inspectors’ investigation

Advocates for North Star's patients have asked whether the hospitals are meeting their obligation to protect and treat those children, many of them placed there by the state.
three bears wonder around an enclosed exhibit

Some Alaska bears spent a lot of time eating berries, so this biologist wondered, are they less carnivorous than we think?

Charles Robbins is a bear nutrition expert at Washington State University's Bear Center, which is the only research institution in the U.S. with a captive brown bear population.
An outdoor sign reads: James M. Fitzgerald United States Courthouse & Federal Buildling

Alaska girl’s report leads authorities to arrest ringleader of ‘one of the most malicious’ child porn schemes

Zobaidul Amin posed as a teenager on Instagram to meet minors, who he convinced to send him sexually explicit photos and videos of themselves, according to the indictment.

Alaska’s next west coast storm forecast to hit farther north, as some communities still recover from September flooding

The most serious impacts are expected from Shishmaref to Kotzebue and up the coast to Utqiagvik.

‘Alaska Daily’ TV show debuts this week, with roots in the real-life Anchorage Daily News

The Anchorage Daily News worked with ABC to create "Alaska Daily," after the ADN's Pulitzer-winning "Lawless" series on sexual violence and Alaska criminal justice failures.

Providence pressured patients to pay, even when eligible for free care, according to New York Times

The nonprofit Providence hospital system includes Alaska's largest hospital.
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Wasilla Rep. Eastman to stay on ballot, but post-election trial will decide his eligibility, judge says

The judge, Jack McKenna, ruled Thursday that Eastman is likely ineligible to hold office, but that Eastman's name can remain on ballots for the Nov. 8 election.
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Anchorage grand jury indicts Ed Sniffen, former acting attorney general, on child sex abuse charges from 1991

The Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica interviewed a woman who said Sniffen had sex with her when she was 17 during a trip that Sniffen helped chaperone.