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Alaska News June 09, 2018

By James Brooks: Advocate, historian and longtime Juneauite Marie Darlin dies at age 93
 
 
 
 
By Kyle Hopkins: From criminal to cop, and back again, in Alaska’s most vulnerable villages
 
 
 
 
By Kyle Hopkins: A broken system of oversight for Alaska’s village police officers
 
 
 
 
By Leroy Polk: Alaska man takes plea deal for murdering his girlfriend last year
 
 
 
 
By Rachel D’Oro / The Associated Press: U.S. won’t prosecute Alaskans for gray whale kill
Gray whales are off limits to Alaska hunters, including Alaska Natives.
 
 
 
 
By Scott Gross: Chance encounter keeps Kids Kitchen dishing out hot meals
 
 
 
 
By Lauren Maxwell: UAA researchers pioneer new techniques to treat cancer
 
 
 
 
By Heather Hintze: New app for navigating Mat-Su trails
 
 
 
 
By Anchorage Daily News: Colorado hunting guide accused of wasting meat fined $35,000
 
 
 
 
By Erica Martinson: Meet Don Young’s conservative primary challenger
 
 
 
 
By Tegan Hanlon: The Iditarod just made some big changes to the rules. Among them: A musher may be out of the race if a dog dies.
 
 
 
 
By Frank Chythlook & John Sallee: As Heard on Morning Line: the Alaska Women Veterans Listening Session
Todays guests on Morning Line featured Katie St. John, the Director of Programs and Grants at the Alaska Community Foundation and Vanessa Meade, a Clinical Asistant Professor at the University of Alaska, Anchorage School of Social Work. They spoke with Morning Line host Frank Chythlook about the Alaska Women Veterans Listening Session.

Alaska News June 08, 2018

By Laurel Andrews: Hazmat team investigates white powder left near Anchorage homeless shelter
 
 
 
 
By Nathaniel Herz: Court filings expose power struggle over sex harassment charges at Alaska Native corporation Calista

 
 
 
 

By Laurel Andrews: Alaska man charged with wasting walrus kill
 
 
 
 

By Daniella Rivera: Murder suspects: An escapee, a parolee, & a defendant on bail
 
 
 
 
By Daniel Kirby: Former Alaska lawmaker Zach Fansler to be arraigned on June 21 in Juneau
 
 
 
 
By Beth Bragg: Warrior moms will help the Alaska Run for Women continue the fight against breast cancer
 
 
 
 
By Beth Verge: Family, friends reflect on life of Anchorage hit-and-run victim Paul Winter
 
 
 
 
By Rebecca Palsha: Police look at clearing up ‘grids’ of illegal camps instead of individual campers
 
 
 
 
By Tegan Hanlon: Anchorage School Board pushes back decision on school start times to August
 
 
 
 
By Scott Gross: Inside the Gates: Veterans Portrait Project
 
 
 
 
By Heather Hintze: Teens graduate from APD Youth Academy
 
 
 
 
By Lauren Maxwell: More officers to patrol Anchorage trails
 
 
 
 
By Lauren Maxwell: Group wants help cutting brush from bike trails
 
 
 
 
By Steve Quinn: Walker signs foster care reform bill into law
 
 
 
 
By Patrick Enslow: From UAA to the NHL, the Seawolf who took the Stanley Cup
 
 
 
 
By Jackie Purcell: Nap time for mother moose and twins
 
 
 
 
Moms Everyday Alaska Family Features: Tomato and tortellini soup

Alaska News June 07, 2018

By Laurel Andrews: APD: Man killed by SUV was rollerblading on sidewalk
 
 
 
 
By Beth Verge: Armed with defense dogs, Providence Alaska Medical Center reports decrease in violence
 
 
 
 
By Emily Carlson: Motorists illegally corral moose calf on Minnesota
 
 
 
 
Congratulations Jodie Hettrick!
By Leroy Polk: First female fire chief announced at Anchorage Fire Department
 
 
 
 
By Devin Kelly: Spenard sinkhole signals a looming crisis over Anchorage’s aging drainpipes
 
 
 
 
By Erica Martinson: Sullivan gets his wish for canceled Senate recess while Murkowski fumes
 
 
 
 
By Tegan Hanlon: The Anchorage School District wants parents to know about the show ‘13 Reasons Why’ and how it could affect their children
 
 
 
 
By Erica Martinson: Alaskan Tara Sweeney’s Interior Department nomination cruises through committee
 
 
 
 
By Dave Leval: Wasilla baseball team honors fallen service members
 
 
 
 
Congratulations Jessica Michelle Singleton!
By Daybreak Staff: Jessica Michelle Singleton performs for one night only in Anchorage
 
 
 
 
By Chris Klint: Wave of summer Anchorage concerts starts Thursday
 
 
 
 
By Liz Thomas: Brown Bag shutters its doors for good
 
 
 
 
By Kari Bustamante: Zoe Hickel brings program for young female athletes to Alaska
 
 
 
 
By Kortnie Horazdovsky: Alaskan makes the cut on ‘American Ninja Warrior’ Wednesday
 
 
 
 
By Annie Zak: Cruise company Carnival will buy Southeast Alaska’s historic White Pass railroad
 
 
 
 
By Allie Harvey: For this one-time wanderer, grow roots first, then plant a garden
 
 
 
 
Edible Alaska Recipe: California Roll Bowl

Alaska News June 06, 2018

By Mary Simton: Driver leads troopers on wild chase through Valley
 
 
 
 
By Zaz Hollander: Widespread lightning strikes trigger Alaska wildfires
 
 
 
 
By Leroy Polk & Associated Press: UPDATE: Anchorage pedestrian struck, killed in crash on 9th Avenue, police questioning suspect
 
 
 
 
By Associated Press: Arson fire destroys vehicles, damages Kodiak building
 
 
 
 
By Marc Lester: Weeks after her wedding day, a Polish climber survives a 1,000-foot fall on Denali
 
 
 
 
By Melinda Bolton: 3 men sentenced for ‘winter crime spree’ in 2017
 
 
 
 
By Megan Mazurek: Race aims to raise money for breast cancer research
 
 
 
 
By Devin Kelly: ‘Downright infuriating:’ Worker sues state over transgender surgery
 
 
 
 
By Laurel Andrews: When a moose crashes your birthday pool party
 
 
 
 
By Scott Gross: On Hawaii’s big island, evacuate or be arrested
 
 
 
 

Connecting rural Alaskan communities to future nurses
 
 
 
 

VIDEO: Days after return from Afghanistan, 4-25 soldiers summit newly-named Gold Star Peak

Alaska News June 05, 2018

By Alex DeMarban: John Active dies; he was a Yup’ik storyteller and ‘the voice of the Y-K Delta’
 
 
 
 
By Associated Press: Court denies appeal of man who struck joggers with car
 
 
 
 
By Mary Simton: Spike strip ends 100-mph chase near Sutton
 
 
 
 
By Liz Thomas: Troopers investigating Big Susitna River death
 
 
 
 
By Devin Kelly: Anchorage Police Department wants to move headquarters downtown
 
 
 
 
By Laurel Andrews: Police find stolen mail from across Anchorage after victim follows suspects
 
 
 
 
By Zaz Hollander: ‘Suspicious’ fire damages Anchorage school playground
 
 
 
 
By Zaz Hollander: Wasilla Christian school loses 3 buses in fire linked to fuel theft
 
 
 
 
By Stephanie Rhoades: No plan for ‘homesteaders’ in Anchorage greenbelts is a bad plan for everyone
 
 
 
 
By Bill Roth: Meet the new Star, 7th in a line of reindeer living in downtown Anchorage
 
 
 
 
By KTVA Web Staff: Wildlife officials sedate moose shot with target arrow
 
 
 
 
By Emily Carlson: GOP targets ‘turncoats’ in primary election
 
 
 
 
By Laurel Downing Bill: Story Time with Aunt Phil: Zachariah Loussac
 
 
 
 
By Steve Quinn: Rep. Gara announces retirement from Legislature
 
 
 
 
By Sean Maguire: Student dons a Confederate flag on her mortar board at Palmer High graduation
 
 
 
 
By Laurel Andrews: Watch black bear cubs frolic at an Anchorage golf course
 
 
 
 
Moms Everyday Alaska 719woman.com: Meal under $10: Fish with Mexican corn salad

Alaska News June 04, 2018

By KTUU Staff: Alaska flags flying at half-staff commemorate 76th anniversary of Dutch Harbor bombing
 
 
 
 
By Leroy Polk: Early morning vehicle shootout in South Anchorage, 1 car abandoned
 
 
 
 
By Associated Press: Juneau police arrest man suspected of armed shoplifting
 
 
 
 
By Michelle Theriault Boots: Two Soldotna men arrested after alleged DUI, chase and assault on trooper
 
 
 
 
By Michelle Theriault Boots: Troopers say 3 people busted burglarizing a Wasilla house were all on pre-trial release for other cases
 
 
 
 
By Michelle Theriault Boots: Troopers cite 2 motorcyclists for driving 90 mph and faster on Seward Highway
 
 
 
 
By Beth Verge: Coast Guard medevacs 13-year-old from Chenega fishing vessel
 
 
 
 
By Leroy Polk: Fairbanks wildfire sees ‘aggressive response’ from authorities following lightning strikes
 
 
 
 
By Sean Maguire: Anchorage camper films trooper shooting black bear with a bean bag round
 
 
 
 
By Daniella Rivera: State focus on fixing Alaska’s foster care system
 
 
 
 
By Liz Raines: Mat-Su Regional reduces opioids in ER by more than 60%
 
 
 
 
By Marc Lester: New Anchorage entrepreneurs get help turning ideas – and neighborhood pride – into a business plan
 
 
 
 
By Laurel Andrews: Only Alaskans will understand these summertime memes
 
 
 
 
By Lynne Curry: One of my best employees was caught watching porn at work. Do I have to fire him?
 
 
 
 
The Seattle Times, Associated Press: Alaska women work to save historic riverboat
 
 
 
 
By Lauren Maxwell: Harvesting Alaska: Talkeetna cafe specializes in local food
 
 
 
 
Moms Everyday Alaska Family Features: Chicken caprese stuffed spaghetti squash

Alaska News June 03, 2018

By Tegan Hanlon: ‘It’s been a long nine months’: The final big group of paratroopers returns home to Alaska from Afghanistan
 
 
 
 
By Matt Tunseth, Alaska Star: In need of a new heart, Eagle River mother fights for a million-dollar transplant
 
 
 
 
By Associated Press: California man pleads guilty in Alaska meth conspiracy case
 
 
 
 
By KTVA Web Staff: Commercial fishing couple pleads guilty in tax case
 
 
 
 
By Sean Maguire: Spenard sinkhole repairs underway
 
 
 
 
By Associated Press: Alaska utility tells customers to make equipment repairs
 
 
 
 
By Dave Leval: Volunteers help neighbors Paint the Town
 
 
 
 
By Shannon Ballard: Alaska female running community rallying around man
 
 
 
 
By KTUU Staff: Shriners unveil Silent Messenger statute at Anchorage headquarters
 
 
 
 
By Beth Bragg: UAA’s new hockey coach will earn considerably more than UAF’s new hockey coach
 
 
 
 
By Tegan Hanlon: Anchorage gets its first 70-degree day of the year
 
 
 
 
By Nathaniel Herz: Alaska heli-skiing company takes fight over fresh tracks to federal court
 
 
 
 
By Emily Carlson: Park of the Week: Oceanview
 
 
 
 
By Moms Everyday Alaska: What’s the most embarrassing thing your kid ever said in public?

Alaska News June 02, 2018

By Laurel Andrews: Police: Anchorage man hung ‘lifeless’ dog from fence by its leash
 
 
 
 
By Laurel Andrews: Woman stabbed two people to death on separate days, charges say
 
 
 
 
By Zaz Hollander: 4 charged with hiding suspect in brutal beating of man shoved into dog kennel
 
 
 
 
By Nathaniel Herz: Former Alaska lawmaker accused of slapping woman will plead guilty to harassment
 
 
 
 
By Sean Maguire: What’s next for three other teenagers accused of killing David Grunwald?
 
 
 
 
By Alex DeMarban: Begich and Treadwell jump into Alaska governor’s race
 
 
 
 
By Nathaniel Herz: Alaska legislative races feature ex-lawmakers seeking comebacks, credible challengers and a husband and wife
 
 
 
 
By Erica Martinson: Here are the people challenging Don Young for Alaska’s sole congressional seat
 
 
 
 
By Annie Zak: Work has started on a remodel at the Mall at Sears, but the owners aren’t saying who might move in
 
 
 
 
 
By Victoria Taylor: What do the locals recommend for Great Outdoors Month?
 
 
 
 
By Tegan Hanlon: After-work hikes in the Anchorage area: Where’s your favorite spot?
 
 
 
 
By Kathleen McCoy, KSKA – Anchorage: Squeezing books into busy Alaska summers
 
 
 
 
Moms Everyday Alaska KTUU: Research finds ‘dad talk’ improves language skills

Alaska News June 01, 2018

By KTVA Web Staff: Man arrested and charged for raping 9-year-old girl
 
 
 
 
By Zaz Hollander: Jury delivers guilty verdicts on all counts for first teen to face trial in Grunwald slaying
 
 
 
 
By Jack Carney: Almandinger guilty on all counts in David Grunwald’s murder
 
 
 
 
By Daniella Rivera: Bail reduced for local actor accused of sexual assaults
 
 
 
 
By Laurel Andrews: Missing man’s body found in log jam in Mat-Su
 
 
 
 
By Associated Press: Female Yupik elder not voted to Bethel’s all-male council
 
 
 
 
By Joe Vigil: APD’s newest 30 include 3rd-generation officer
 
 
 
 
By Carlos Faura: Flood advisory issued for Montana Creek
 
 
 
 
By Ariane Aramburo : Dip into a donut to celebrate National Donut Day
 
 
 
 
By Anchorage Daily News: Weak king salmon return prompts Kenai Peninsula fishing closures
 
 
 
 
By Derek Minemyer: AOGA’s Great Debate Conference highlights key issues in Governor’s race
 
 
 
 
Steller Watch: June 1st: ~57 Sea Lion of the Month
 
 
 
 
By Associated Press: Sea lion researchers turn to crowdfunding for equipment
 
 
 
 
By Ariane Aramburo: Empowering women through fashion
 
 
 
 
By Victoria Taylor: Fishing, Hiking and Fashion: Two Alaska entrepreneurs take on the outdoor clothing industry
 
 
 
 
By Tegan Hanlon: UA finalizes budget; tuition will increase for most classes this fall
 
 
 
 
Laurel Downing Bill: Story Time with Aunt Phil: The Koyukuk gold boom
 
 
 
 
By Lauren Maxwell: Atomic Camper ready to hit the road with new owner
 
 
 
 
By Daybreak Staff: Mic Check in the Morning: Spenard Jazz Fest Preview
 
 
 
 
26th 3 Barons Renaissance Faire
 
 
 
 
Anchorage Daily News: Photos: Best of May 2018
 
 
 
 
By Emma Hadix: Women’s Cycling: Anchorage’s strong community
 
 
 
 
Moms Everyday Alaska Family Features: Citrus ginger rosé punch
 
 
 
 
By Kim Sunée: Grilling season is here; prosciutto-wrapped shrimp are a perfect way to celebrate

Alaska News May 31, 2018

By Joe Vigil: Local WWII vet celebrates 99th birthday
 
 
 
 
By Beth Verge: Arrival of 4-25 soldiers highlighted by reunions, uncasing of colors
 
 
 
 
By Leroy Polk: Fairbanks man sustains brain damage in dispute over bicycle ownership
 
 
 
 
By Leroy Polk: Victim shot in backside while riding away on bicycle in Fairview, police say
 
 
 
 
By Zaz Hollander: ‘They’re not your family’: Jury deliberates fate of first teen on trial for Grunwald slaying
 
 
 
 
By Daniella Rivera: Courtroom audio: Judge, prosecutor frustrated with ‘subpar’ monitoring
 
 
 
 
Pretrial Enforcement Division accused in ankle monitor flub
 
 
 
 
By Michelle Theriault boots: Criminals are trying to get caught so they can smuggle drugs into jail, an Alaska official says
 
 
 
 
By Scott Gross: Justice for the family of Jorge Villa-Rea
 
 
 
 
By Dave Leval: Vandals strike again at Wasilla baseball field
 
 
 
 
By Richard Maurer: 3,500 rape kits are overdue for analysis in Alaska
 
 
 
 
By Charles Wohlforth: How a stranger’s caring healed a childhood of horrific sexual abuse
 
 
 
 
By Rebecca Palsha: Was it speed or road rage? Anchorage Police investigate wreck on the Glenn Hwy
 
 
 
 
By Associated Press: Opioid drug maker seeks dismissal of Alaska lawsuit
 
 
 
 
Congratulations Grace Parrott, of Ketchikan (left), and Daniel Doudnavo, of Fairbanks!
By Leroy Polk: Out of more than a million kids, 2 Alaskans place high in national spelling championship
 
 
 
 
By Daniel Kirby: Whale watching ship with 113 passengers runs aground north of Auke Bay
 
 
 
 
By alex DeMarban: Here’s what Bill Walker will do if Mark Begich runs for governor
 
 
 
 
By : Steven Mufson, Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post: Companies’ first step toward drilling for oil in ANWR deemed inadequate by feds
 
 
 
 
Christine O’Connor GUEST COMMENTARY: Alaska telecoms committed to open internet
 
 
 
 
American Association for the Advancement of Science: Along Alaska’s Pacific coast, early humans could have migrated to the Americas
 
 
 
 
By Kortnie Horazdovsky: New chancellor named for University of Alaska Anchorage
 
 
 
 
By Daybreak Staff: ‘R&B Live’: All-female showcase in Anchorage