Category Archives: AK News

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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Alaska News April 22, 2021

KTUU Alaska’s News Source: New acting police chief of Anchorage appointed ahead of chief’s retirement; Anchorage voters approved funds to purchase body cameras for APD. What happens next?; Inside the Gates: Soldiers train to climb Denali and more ->
 
 
 
 
KTOO Public Media: State foster care agencies take millions of dollars owed to children in their care; Feds designate critical whale habitat areas in Alaska and the West Coast; Anchorage’s small international eateries, used to takeout, found a growing market during pandemic and more ->
 
 
 
 
KYUK Public Media for Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta: 3-Year-Old Girl Attacked By Loose Dogs In Chevak and more ->
 
 
 
 
Alaska Native News: Phone Scam Warning – The Municipal Clerk’s Office is not making phone calls regarding fraud investigations.; This Day In Alaska History April 22nd, 1917 and more ->
 
 
 
 
Fairbanks News Webcenter 11: Health Watch: Alaskans save lives for National Donate Life Month and more ->
 
 
 
 
By Megan McDonald, Only In Your State Alaska: The Wood Frog’s Quack Signals The Start Of Spring In Alaska
 
 
 
 
Los Angeles Times: Festival of Books: Native American authors honor Leslie Marmon Silko, next generation of Indigenous writers
 
 
 
 
Tuesday Nite History Talk
Event by Valdez Museum and Historical Archive
Online: us02web.zoom.us
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 5:30 PM AKDT
Price: Free
Public · Anyone on or off Facebook
In the News, August 15, 1941 issue of the Valdez Weekly Miner. Read the Miner and discover what is going on in Valdez and the world in 1941.
 
 
 
 

Alaska News April 21, 2021

KTUU Alaska’s News Source: Body of Chitina man missing since February found near vehicle, troopers say; Telemedicine lets a Palmer boy stay home to recover following a bone marrow transplant and more ->
 
 
 
 
KTOO Public Media: Alaska’s side of the Chilkoot Trail will be open this summer, but hikers have to turn around at Canada; Volcanic activity at Semisopochnoi prompts ashfall warning for fishing boats; NTSB: Requiring onboard alert systems could have prevented 2019 midair collision near Ketchikan and more ->
 
 
 
 
KYUK Public Media for Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta: YKHC Urges Pets Get Rabies Vaccines After Rabid Foxes Found; State Asks Kuskokwim Communities To Prepare For Breakup Flooding and more ->
 
 
 
 
Alaska Native News: Federal Land Allotment Delay is Slap in the Face to Alaska Native Vietnam Veterans and their Families; New Maritime Response Center to Serve Alaska’s Pacific Rim; Listening to avalanches half a state away; This Day In Alaska History April 21st, 1913 and more ->
 
 
 
 
By Megan McDonald, Only In Your State Alaska: Race The Alaskan Tide To Complete Your Hike Along Stunning Resurrection Bay
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Alaska News April 20, 2021

KTUU Alaska’s News Source: Here’s how you can request a free COVID-19 vaccine presentation for a group; New ASD program is getting kids outdoors and reading at the same time and more ->
 
 
 
 
KYUK Public Media for Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta: A Fourth Grader Makes History At Inupiaq Spelling Bee; National Guard To Expand Presence In Y-K Delta; Kuskokwim River Fishery Managers Want To Hear From Subsistence Users and more ->
 
 
 
 
Alaska Native News: Juneau Man Dies in ATV Accident in Gustavus; Congressman Don Young Receives Mongolian Friendship Medal from Mongolian Ambassador to the United States; This Day In Alaska History April 20th, 1888 and more ->

Alaska News April 19, 2021

By Jacob Mann, Frontiersman.com: Houston Fire loses longtime firefighter to cancer
 
 
 
 
Author: David Reamer | Histories of Anchorage: How a group of Anchorage teens hid a 1966 murder for years — until one of them tried to become a police officer
 
 
 
 
KTUU Alaska’s News Source: Bringing the outdoors, indoors: house plant sales increase during pandemic and more ->
 
 
 
 
KTOO Public Media: Peninsula lawmakers introduce bill to block vaccination requirements; Senate votes to remove Reinbold as chair of Judiciary Committee and more ->
 
 
 
 
Alaska Native News: Teklanika Road Permit Reservations Available Beginning April 20th; This Day In Alaska History April 19th, 1933 and more ->
 
 
 
 
Fairbanks News Webcenter 11: Federal funding for Alaska Native Corporations under scrutiny at the Supreme Court
 
 
 
 
Suzanne Downing, Editor, Must Read Alaska: Monday – Supreme Court’s big case for Alaska Native Corps. today; Alaska Native Vietnam vets get burned as Interior Secretary Haaland puts two-year stay on their land allotments in Alaska and more ->
 
 
 
 
STORIES FROM NORTHERN CANADA AND ALASKA: Alaska Nellie
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Alaska News April 18, 2021

KTUU Alaska’s News Source: Alaska Railroad prepares to roll out on new season after a year of big losses; Alyeska uphill race tough on competitors, easy on the eyes and more ->
 
 
 
 
KTOO Public Media: Portable, Sitka-built ‘mini homes’ could help with Southeast Alaska’s housing crunch and more ->
 
 
 
 
Matt Goff, Sitka Nature: A Brief Trip to the Chaicheis
 
 
 
 
Kathryn’s Report: Beech 200 Super King Air, N924AC: Incident occurred April 14, 2021 at Merrill Field Airport (PAMR), Anchorage, Alaska
 
 
Kathryn’s Report: Cessna 170A, N1291D: Incident occurred April 07, 2021 in Lime Village, Alaska
 
 
 
 
By Robert Woolsey, KCAW: Annual blessing remembers Sitkans ‘who go down to the sea in ships’
 
 
 
 

Alaska News April 17, 2021

KTUU Alaska’s News Source: ‘It’s a pretty divisive issue and it’s been dividing communities all over the country’: Wasilla High creates new Native Alaskan warrior logo; An Eagle rescued earlier this week by a tow truck driver on the Parks Highway continues to improve; Alaska Department of Law chief assistant attorney receives Smokey Bear award and more ->
 
 
 
 
KTOO Public Media: SpaceX considers Alaska stations for satellite network to improve internet access worldwide; Indigenous creators hope to share history, cultural art forms through first-ever Tlingit opera and more ->
 
 
 
 
KYUK Public Media for Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta: ANSEP Academy Arrives In Bethel and more ->
 
 
 
 
Fairbanks News Webcenter 11: Sci-Friday: UAF Seismologist is on the hunt for the source of the great 1900 earthquake and more ->
 
 
 
 

Alaska News April 16, 2021

KTUU Alaska’s News Source: Anchorage reports first revenue from new alcohol tax; Stunning motifs, small canvases: Alaskan keeps pysanky tradition alive in Anchorage and more ->
 
 
 
 
KYUK, Public Media for Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta: Yup’ik Spelling Bee Inspires Inupiaq Spelling Bee and more ->
 
 
 
 
Alaska Native News: Winners of Alaska Junior Duck Stamp Contest Announced; State of Alaska Intervenes in Willow Project Lawsuit; Governor Dunleavy Orders Investigation into Unauthorized Sharing of DHSS Information; This Day In Alaska History April 16th, 1959 and more ->
 
 
 
 
Fairbanks News Webcenter 11: Alaska Community Forest Council offers grants in celebration of Arbor Day; UAF receives 9.3 million dollar grant for HAARP facility, studying the ionosphere; Taking to the skies, Fairbanks based smokejumpers conduct spring training and more->
 
 
 
 
By Rachel Cassandra, Narratively: How to Stay Sane as a Female Deckhand in Alaska As one of very few women working in Alaska salmon country, I learned how to gut a fish and swallow its heart. But an even harder trick was navigating the torrential sea of masculinity.
 
 
 
 
Kate Petersen | Center for Ecosystem Science and Society: Deciduous trees offset carbon loss from Alaskan boreal fires, new study out of NAU finds

Alaska News April 14 & 15, 2021

KTUU Alaska’s News Source: Tow truck driver rescues injured eagle near mile 80 of the Parks Highway; NTSB public board meeting scheduled for fatal 2019 plane collision near Ketchikan; Make a Wish: Eagle River teen became NFL pro for the day; New LGBTQ+ health clinic opens; Anchorage thrift store: Second-hand shopping is on the rise during the pandemic and more ->
 
 
 
 
KTOO Public Media: Ketchikan police investigate racist, homophobic graffiti at local skate park and trail; Juneau’s suburbs are putting a lot of stuff down the drain that they shouldn’t and more ->
 
 
 
 

KYUK Public Media for Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta: Bethel City Council Tables Sugary Beverage Tax Hearing and more ->
 
 
 
 
Alaska Native News: Car Thief and Two-time Felon Sentenced to Over Four Years in Prison for Illegally Possessing a Firearm; Bethel, Tuluksak and Chevak Communities Discuss Disaster Processes With the State; This Day In Alaska History April 14th, 1950 & April 15th, 1929 and more ->
 
 
 
 
Fairbanks News Webcenter 11: WATCH: Army conducts live fire Apache training outside of Fairbanks; Alaska Department of Public Safety seeks public comment on regulation change and more ->
 
 
 
 
The Arctic Sounder: Bird calendar continues tradition of showcasing region’s young artists; Sours takes crown in Gunner 120 and more ->
 
 
 
 
Craig Medred: Hunting trust
 
 
 
 
By Megan McDonald, Only In Your State Alaska: If You Can Pronounce These 7 Words, You Can Call Yourself An Alaskan
 
 
By Megan McDonald, Only In Your State Alaska: The Best BBQ Restaurant In Alaska You Simply Can’t Stay Away From
 
 
By Megan McDonald, Only In Your State Alaska: Hike Through The Alaskan Forest For Peekaboo Views Of Prince William Sound

Alaska News April 13, 2021

KTUU Alaska’s News Source: NTSB preliminary report out on deadly helicopter crash near Knik Glacier; ‘It’s really kind of astounding’: APD’s price tag on public records; Family searching for answers after a man in Chitina went missing; Deadline approaches for Anchorage High School seniors who want to wear cultural attire at graduation and more ->
 
 
 
 
KYUK Public Media for Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta: 110 Days After Bethel Woman Reported Sexual Assault, Police Arrest Her Alleged Rapist; Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax Up For Public Hearing At Bethel City Council Again; YKHC Pauses Administering J&J COVID-19 Vaccine Following Federal Recommendation and more ->
 
 
 
 
Alaska Native News: This Day In Alaska History April 13th, 1913 and more ->
 
 
 
 
Fairbanks News Webcenter 11: How the scientific approach of One Health can help prevent the next pandemic
 
 
 
 
Guitar Girl Magazine: Young singer-songwriter from Alaska, Ava Earl, on her new single “Forever Girl”
 
 
 
 
By Courtney, Only In Your Stat Alaska: There’s A Tiny Town In Alaska Completely Surrounded By Breathtaking Natural Beauty
 
 
By Courtney, Ony In Your State Alaska: The Best Deep Dish Pizza In Alaska Is Hiding In This Tiny Mountain Town