Alaska News April 23, 2021

KTUU Alaska’s News Source: Anchorage man indicted for kidnapping, assaulting woman; Juneau man indicted for sexual abuse of a minor charges; Member of Ohio family that lived in Alaska for a year before their arrest pleads guilty in slaying of eight people; Homer Winter King Salmon Tournament sees youngest champion ever and more ->
 
 
 
 
KTOO Public Media: LISTEN: A documentary film followed Metlakatla’s winning high school hoopsters, then won an award of its own; Alaska House bill would fund schools ahead of time, prevent pink slips; Hoping for a ‘Mississippi miracle,’ Alaska lawmakers push bipartisan reading bill and more ->
 
 
 
 
KYUK Public Media for Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta: YKHC To Begin Randomly Drug Testing Employees; Commercial And Subsistence Harvesters Speak Out Against Trawler Bycatch Of Chinook Salmon and more ->
 
 
 
 
Alaska Native News: Two-time Felon Sentenced to More Than Six Years in Federal Prison for Illegally Possessing a Firearm; Washington Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison for Methamphetamine and Heroin Distribution in Ketchikan; This Day In Alaska History April 23rd, 1869 and more ->
 
 
 
 
Fairbanks News Webcenter 11: Morris Thompson center offers free talk on importance of traditional Alaska Native regalia, celebrating tradition; Arctic narwhal tusk study reveals increased mercury content present due to climate change and more ->
 
 
 
 
The Arctic Sounder: Young racers enjoy a spring ride; Ilisagvik College internet gets boost and more ->
 
 
 
 
By Megan McDonald, Only In Your State Alaska: Bridal Veil Falls In Alaska Was Named One Of The Top 10 Waterfalls In America
 
 
 
 
Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock; Wendy Lamb Books, 208 pages ($17.99) Ages 12 and up.

Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock, Alaskan author of acclaimed debut “The Smell of Other People’s Houses,” here offers a beautifully written, poignant collection of interwoven stories, loosely connected by the tragic disappearance of a young girl and set in small towns in the West and Alaska in the 1990s.

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