Alaska News July 28, 2020

KTVA The Voice of Alaska: Anchorage Assembly delays vote on homeless resources until Aug. 11; Anchorage woman bakes, delivers bread as a way to stay connected to community; Mennonite volunteers help rebuild homes for McKinley Fire survivors; Ketchikan rolls out blended learning model for the return to school; Program seeks medical professionals for COVID-19 contact tracing; Travel Tuesday: Rediscover downtown Anchorage and more ->

 
 
 
 

KTUU: Missing and murdered indigenous women cold case office to open in Anchorage; UPDATE: Mat-Su schools to require masks this year for grades 3-12 and more ->
 
 
 
 
KTOO Public Media: In Haines, a race to harvest fruit before bears do; A big Mendenhall jökulhlaup could happen anytime, but scientists say it’s hard to know how big and more ->
 
 
 
 

KYUK Public Media for Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta: Mertarvik’s Lack Of A Commercial Airport May Have Already Cost Lives; After Moving To New Village, Mertarvik Residents Say They Are Healthier and more ->
 
 
 
 

Alaska Native News: Nikoleavsk Man Taken into Custody During Response to Welfare Check Monday and more ->

 
 
 
 

Fairbanks News Webcenter 11: Fairbanks woman hits Law Enforcement Officer with four-wheeler and more ->
 
 
 
 
Our Third Thirds: Male Menace
So, for example, you can use Google maps to get directions that are the fastest, that use the least mileage; but can you get one that shows the “safest” route? Men don’t see it, don’t collect it, don’t care to make that information useful to women. It took women to create Safecity, which crowd-sources personal stories of sexual harassment in public spaces to create a map indicating trends at a local level, mostly in India, but around the world.
 
 
SafeCity
If you have been sexually harassed or abused in public spaces anywhere in the world, please share your story with us on this crowdmap. You can report anonymously in under 2 minutes.
 
 
 
 

Craig Medred: Whale tale
 
 
 
 

Rasmuson Foundation makes awards to nine organizations