Josh Edge, Alaska Public Media
Alaskans Heading to Skiing Championships
Steve Heimel, APRN - Anchorage
Team USA for the world championship in snowboarding and cross country skiing will include a number of Alaskans - many of them familiar names to the state's fans of the...
The Alaska Fisheries Report with Jay Barrett
Jay Barrett, KMXT - Kodiak
Coming up this week, the Alaska Board of Fish is meeting in Kodiak right now, but they've got even more work to do next week in Anchorage; Cora...
Family of Alaskan Trapped After Haiti Quake Takes in Rescuer
Lori Townsend, APRN – Anchorage
A year ago today, former Anchorage resident Christa Brelsford was stuck underneath the rubble of a house in Haiti.
The young man who saved Christa, Wenson Georges, is now...
157 Malnourished Dogs Taken From Breeder, Placed in Care of Mat-Su Animal Shelter
Diana Haecker, KTNA – Talkeetna
The Mat-Su borough animal shelter is overcrowded Wednesday as the borough removed 157 malnourished dogs Tuesday night from a dog breeder in the Montana Creek area near...
Mat-Su Shelter Workers Cope With Sharp Influx of Rescued Dogs
Ellen Lockyer, KSKA – Anchorage
The Matanuska Susitna Borough shelter has had plenty of ups and downs in its short history. Only last October, the shelter celebrated its one-year anniversary as a...
Pipeline Temporarily Restarted to Prevent Freezing
Dan Bross, KUAC – Fairbanks
Oil began flowing down the Trans Alaska Pipeline again Tuesday night after an over 80 hour shut down caused by a leaky pipe. Resumption of service comes...
Forest Service Greenlights Sitkoh River Restoration
Robert Woolsey, KCAW – Sitka
The Sitka Ranger District has the green light to move ahead on the restoration of fish habitat in the Sitkoh River on Southeast Chichagof Island.
The $290,000 project...
Coast Guard Releases New Report on Alaska Ranger Sinking
Anne Hillman, KUCB – Unalaska
The Coast Guard’s new report on the 2008 sinking of the Alaska Ranger says that the ship went down because of flooding in the rudder room likely...
Young Looking to Make Sure Gun Laws Not Tightened
Libby Casey, APRN – Washington DC
Alaska’s Congressman Don Young is not joining in today’s outpouring in the House of tributes and well-wishes for Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the other victims of...
Novel Ponders Life After Civilization
Shane Iverson, KYUK – Bethel
Here’s a question to consider: What if civilization as we know it came to end? And, how would Alaskans, and especially, rural Alaskans survive? A new novel...
Alaska News Nightly: January 12, 2011
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Family of Alaskan Trapped After Haiti Quake Takes in Rescuer
Lori...
Talk of Alaska: Science in the Changing Arctic
The effort to understanding our changing Arctic goes public every year in January, with the Marine Science Symposium in Anchorage. Whether it’s fisheries, waters, climate, ocean currents, ice or marine mammals, new research results...
Oil Spill Commission Says Government, Oil Industry Must Make 'Dramatic Changes'
Steve Heimel, APRN - Anchorage
"Both government and industry must make dramatic changes." Those are the words being used by a Presidential Commission investigating the Deepwater Horizon blowout, in its recommendations this morning. The report...
Company Planning Bypass to Restart Trans Alaska Pipeline
Dan Bross, KUAC – Fairbanks
A plan is in the works to get the Trans Alaska pipeline restarted. The line has been shut down since oil was discovered Saturday leaking into the...
Shootings Raise Questions About Congressional Members’ Security
Libby Casey, APRN – Washington DC
Alaska’s Congressional delegation reacted with shock and horror at the attack on their colleague, Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, on Saturday. The Democrat was shot in the...
Wainwright Soldier in Custody in Connection With Death of Wife
Associated Press
An Army spokesman says a soldier stationed at Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks is in military custody in connection with the death of his wife. Neither the name of the soldier nor...
Search for Kodiak Man Ends Tragically
Jacob Resneck, KMXT – Kodiak
A search for a man who had gone skating on Kodiak’s Island Lake ended tragically Monday morning after volunteers pulled the man’s body out of about 10...
Jake Berkowitz Wins Copper Basin 300
Tony Gorman, KCHU – Valdez
Jake Berkowitz won the Copper Basin 300 this morning. The Big Lake musher upset four-time Iditarod champ Lance Mackey.
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New Company to Oversee Development of Southeast Mineral Deposit
Ed Schoenfeld, CoastAlaska – Juneau
A new company has been formed to oversee development of a major mineral deposit on Southeast Alaska’s Prince of Wales Island. It’s investing millions of dollars into an...
Project Aims to Study Cold Weather Vehicle Emissions
Dan Bross, KUAC – Fairbanks
The contribution vehicle emissions make to Fairbanks fine particulate pollution is the subject of a study. The State Department of Environmental Conservation and the Fairbanks Borough are...