Reading woes: How busy parents can help
Discouraging reading scores and a K-3 statewide policy to improve Alaska's scores is one of the hot...
Easing the ride: Anchorage road-bike-transit fixes for 2020
As a bike commuter, the culvert under Arctic Valley Boulevard often has been an exciting transit opportunity. I have rolled through water up to my pedals. But a fix in 2020 — a new culvert — is aimed at better managing Chester Creek overflow near Valley of the Moon park.
LISTEN: These two organizations fight to protect the civil rights of Alaskans
At least two legal agencies work to protect the civil rights of Alaskans. Today's show will look...
Alaskans eat: wild salmon, fresh berries, canned milk, Pilot Bread, cake mix, seal meatballs, pho, Jello, muktuk, spam musubi, pancit…
Image by Brian Kimmel, for the Anchorage Museum's What Why How We Eat exhibition, open through Jan 12, 2020. Julia O'Malley's...
Three women judges anchor the Alaska Court of Appeals
The Alaska Court of Appeals is an intermediate court of appeals in the Alaska Court System, created...
What makes a Renaissance Alaskan? Meet one and find out.
Modified from gainweightjournal.com from a blog post about 'What makes a Renaissance Man.'
Every since watching Shawn...
[Recent] art in public places: Who made it? How did they create it? What were they thinking?
James Temte and Michael Conti collaborated on this mural in Spenard. (Photo from James Temte Facebook)
Back in...
Gratitude: Is it an emotion? A virtue? A behavior?
Infographic created by Here's My Chance, and borrowed from the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California Berkeley.
4 Alaska Startups: How they built it
Logo for Alaska Startup Week, Nov. 17-24, brings entrepreneurs, leaders and fans together to mentor and support new business ideas in...
In Memoriam: Conversation with ‘ENCOUNTERS’ host Richard Nelson
AFN Convention: “Alaska is not a broke state” and protesters have a place
How did AFN leaders arrive at this theme for their 2019 convention, and what does it mean to them? Image from...
UAA, UAF, UAS faculty discuss university accreditation
The University of Alaska Anchorage is one of three universities in Alaska organized under the statewide UA System. The others are...
Meet Chief Justice Joel Bolger, Alaska Supreme Court
Chief Justice Joel Bolger delivers the 2019 State of the Judiciary in February 2019 before the Alaska Legislature. (Photo by KTOO...
Ask the Superintendent
Anchorage School District, photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media.
Dr. Deena Bishop, superintendent of the Anchorage...
Surprise: Alaska has ticks, and more are on the way
Image courtesy of the Alaska State Veterinary office.
Maybe you are like me. I assumed that Alaska was...
‘And Now We Rise’: The story and work behind this documentary
Publicity poster for "And Now We Rise," with the image of Samuel Johns. (Image courtesy of Affinity Films)
Local: How horses assist in human physical therapy
Advocates of equine-assisted therapy say riders benefit from the horse's soothing rhythm, warmth and three-dimensional movement pattern that mimics the movement...
Going nuclear in Alaska: Past…and Future?
This is a photo of preparations for the Cannikin nuclear test on Amchitka Island in 1971. Amchitka is the southern...
Public libraries = back-to-school help
Image by <a href="http://">Gerd Altmann from <a href="http://">Pixabay. Used with permission.
Everybody is back in school...
How Alaska schools, courts and police manage and confront gun violence
Snapshot from a recent study by the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program.
Americans with guns taking aim...