KTUU: Family of woman stabbed to death in 2018 reacts to killer accepting plea deal Cheri Ingram’s family spoke out after news of a plea agreement being reached in the murder case surrounding her 2018 stabbing death
 
 
 
 

Craig Medred: Deadly playground

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Travel: This teenager cycled from Alaska to Argentina
 
 
 
 

By Alaska Division of Forestry: New 349 acre fuel break provides fire crews safe holding line west of Delta Junction
 
 
 
 

#50: Spicing it up…

Hey there,

We’ve been thinking about spices. Beyond musings about growing our own saffron a few weeks ago, we’ve been thinking about the idea that for the most part, no matter where you might be in North America, many or most of the spices you use in your cooking come from elsewhere.
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Spring into…
Right this moment, there are six women writers in residency at Storyknife. Six women bringing words into the world from the quiet and safety of their own cabins. We can’t wait to read what they are creating!

To kick off the residency season, Founder Dana Stabenow is issuing a challenge to match the fellowship and travel scholarship funds that she donates each year. Storyknife fellowships are $5000 to support one writer while in residency. Dana also offers a $1000 scholarship to support the travel of one resident. If you’d like to read more about the other fellowships currently being offered you can check them out on Storyknife’s website.

If you’d like to sponsor a fellowship, please let me know at ehollowell@storyknife.org. Sponsors of a fellowship are encouraged to specify what kind of writer they’d like to support, name the fellowship, and when possible meet with their fellows. It’s a wonderful way to know that you’re making a difference in a woman writer’s life.

This April, Dana is challenging us to raise $6,000 to match her annual donation. A donation in April not only honors Storyknife’s Founder and her continued support but ALSO will support a woman writer putting her heart on the page.

If you’d like to dedicate your donation to Dana, or to anyone else who has positively impacted your life, please let us know on the donation form.

We’re very excited to kick off the year, planting the seeds of good writing that will undoubtedly blossom into good reading for all of us and a more joyful and hopeful world.
Support Women Writers in our April Fellowship Challenge
If you prefer to donate by check, please send your donation to Storyknife, PO BOX 75, Homer, AK 99603.

take care and stay safe,
Erin

 
 
 
 
Simple Living Alaska: Road Trippin’ 5,885 Miles For a New Tractor | Driving the Alaska Highway
 
 

Alaska Native News: Palmer Woman Shot in Face, Assailant Shot in Leg in Self Defense by Third Person Wednesday Evening; New Method of Monitoring Shore Ice Could Improve Public Safety and more->

The Arctic Sounder: North Slope villages will have new affordable housing and more ->
 
 
 
 

KINY: Official News of The North Retraction regarding SEACC and SEACC United and more ->

KSTK: Wrangell health fair to return after 3-year hiatus and more ->
 
 
 
 

The Seward Journal March 29 to April 04, 2023

 
 
 
 
KRBD: Ketchikan PD investigates possible arson fire and more ->

KUCB: State investment and energy authorities show interest in Makushin Geothermal Project; A glimpse inside Unalaska’s new library: Valisa Higman’s artwork puts a local spin on classic fairy tales; Spring Festival debuts Saturday at Unalaska’s community center and more ->
 
 
 
 

Delta Wind: DES special education team is tops and more ->

April 1st, 1974

Residents of Sitka, Alaska were alarmed when the long-dormant volcano neighboring them, Mount Edgecumbe, suddenly began to belch out billows of black smoke. People spilled out of their homes onto the streets to gaze up at the volcano, terrified that it was active again and might soon erupt. Luckily it turned out that man, not nature, was responsible for the smoke. A local practical joker named Porky Bickar had flown hundreds of old tires into the volcano’s crater and then lit them on fire, all in a (successful) attempt to fool the city dwellers into believing that the volcano was stirring to life.

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By Megan McDonald, Only In Your State Alaska: Enjoy A Farm-To-Glass Brewing Experience At This Unique Brewery In Alaska
 
 
 
 

Craig Medred: Overlooked killers
 
 
 
 

South Anchorage Farmers’ Market APRIL 1, 2023

We promise no fools or tricks Saturday at Bells’ Nursery: Just the beauty of plants and the warmth of Bells Nursery
HOURS: 10am-3pm

Craig Medred: Alaska B4UDie
 
 
 
 
UC San Diego: Study: Endometrial Cancer Treatment Has Significant Results The combination of immunotherapy and chemotherapy showed a significant reduction in disease growth in patients with advanced endometrial cancer
Also participating are Alaska’s: Joanie Mayer Hope, Alaska Women’s Cancer are and Providence Alaska Cancer Center and more ->
 
 
 
 
JBER: Celebrating National Women’s History Month in the 3rd WingBy Maria Galvez 673rd ABW/PA
 
 
 
 
KBBI: ‘Ladies’ Fight Club:’ Homer Police Department teaches jiu-jitsu, situational awareness during women’s self-defense series and more ->

 
 
 
 
By Lucas Reilly, Mental Floss: Why Alaska Is Home to America’s Easternmost Point Breaking down a geographical technicality.
 
 
 
 

By Megan McDonald, Only In Your State Alaska: The Adults-Only Island In Alaska Where You Can Enjoy Some Much-Needed Peace And Quiet
 
 
 
 
Simple Living Alaska: From Winter to Spring | Preserving Garlic & Canning Spuds | Digging out the Bees

KTUU: Alaska’s pricey housing market still limiting options for home buyers; Rosanne Cash performs at Atwood Concert Hall and more ->

 
 
 
 
KTOO: Fix the Permanent Fund dividend? There’s no shortage of ideas in the Alaska Legislature; As coastal erosion pulls rural Alaska communities into the sea, new research seeks solutions and more ->

Alaska Native News: This Day in Alaskan History-March 20th, 1985 and more ->

Fairbanks News Webcenter 11: Lindsy Weaver honored nationally for contributions to Fairbanks afterschool programs
 
 
 
 

KINY: New legislation could clear up confusion surrounding e-bikes in Alaska; Biden-⁠Harris Administration provides communities resources to bolster resilience to wildfires in advance of 2023 fire season and more ->

KFSK: Assembly to review an ordinance to adjust the 2023 Budget and more ->

KUCB: As search continues for missing Unalaska woman, officials focus on area around her residence on Dutton Road and more ->
 
 
 
 

Fireside Books: A Q&A with Sabaa Tahir; Sabrina Orah Mark’s ‘Happily’ and more ->

 
 
 
 
Craig Medred: Rest matters

Eat Your Words from Edible Alaska: #49: A Balancing Act ☀️
 
 
 
 

KTUU: Heavy snow, high winds for Kenai Peninsula and Chugach Mountains Avalanche Warning for W. Chugach and Kenai Mountains and more ->

 
 
 
 
Alaska Native News: 5.3 Quake Wakes up Kenai Peninsula Sunday Morning; Dozens descend upon Alaska to measure snow; This Day in Alaskan History-March 15th, 1916, This Day in Alaskan History-March 16th, 1915, This Day in Alaskan History-March 17th, 1912, This Day in Alaskan History-March 18th, 1918, This Day in Alaskan History-March 19th, 1963 and more ->
 
 
 
 

Fairbanks News Webcenter 11: 2023 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Live Blog Ryan Redington wins the 2023 Iditarod and more ->

The Arctic Sounder: Tikigaq girls repeat as 2A state basketball champs and more ->

KINY: Due to significantly low preseason forecasts, Alaska Department of Fish and Game closes Cook Inlet king salmon sport fishing and more ->
 
 
 
 

The Seward Journal March 15 to March 21, 2023

KUCB: New convenience store lets Unalaskans pick up snacks, pantry staples downtown and more ->
 
 
 
 

By Matt Goff, Sitka Nature: Sitka Nature Photojournal Updates for 2023-03-19

Craig Medred: Big wild life
 
 
Craig Medred: Rabbit redux
 
 
Craig Medred: Know it alls
 
 
 
 

KINY: Clarity on Alaska Law and Mifepristone

By Helen Hegener, Northern Light Media: Old Photographs From the Alaska State Library Historical Collections
 
 
 
 
Simple Living Alaska: Let’s Get this Move On | Mystery Tracks & More Snow at the New Property
 
 

KTUU: Anchorage opera ‘Missing’ triggers emotional celebration of Ashley Johnson-Barr Day ‘The story we need to tell; the women we must remember’;Anchorage School District has restrained or secluded students thousands of times since 2014 Numbers have declined and policy will be phased out following DOJ settlement and more ->
 
 
 
 
2023 Alaska wildfire outlook – dry again in Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta
 
 
 
 
KTOO: Seaweed farming inspires high hopes in Alaska for economic and environmental benefits; Elizabeth Kudrin remembered as ‘great survivor’ of World War II and more ->
 
 
 
 
Alaska Native News: 19-year-old Hooper Bay Teen Charged with Arson and Murder for Friday Fire; Caribou have been using same Arctic calving grounds for 3,000 years; This Day in Alaskan History-March 13th, 1918; This Day in Alaskan History-March 12th, 1914; This Day in Alaska History-March 11th, 1942 and more ->
 
 
 
 
Fairbanks News Webcenter 11: Biden administration approves Alaska’s Willow Project Final decision opens up 3 drilling sites for ConocoPhillips after separate decision to protect almost 16 million acres of state land from development and more ->
 
 
 
 

KINY: Kenai woman sentenced to 10 years for drug trafficking and firearms possession and more ->
 
 
 
 
The Seward Journal March 08 to March 14, 2023
 
 
 
 

KUCB: Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month: local resources and information; New convenience store opens Monday at site of former Vy’s Cafe and more ->
 
 
 
 

Craig Medred: Iditarod meltdown
 
 
Craig Medred: Fish math
 
 
 
 

Simple Living Alaska: Hot Tent Winter Camping | Keeping Warm in the Mountains
 
 

KINY: Becoming “AWARE” about Women of Distinction
 
 
 
 
By Judi Ketteler, Good Housekeeping: Resilience Looks Like This: One Alaska Native Woman’s Journey to Help Her People No family should have to go through what my family endured in the 1940s.
 
 
 
 

By JD Knapp: Jeff Perry Reveals How Alaska Daily With Hilary Swank Honors Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Ahead of the Alaska Daily mid-season premiere on March 2, Jeff Perry exclusively told E! News about working with Hilary Swank on the ABC series about missing and murdered Indigenous women.
 
 
 
 

Craig Medred: This is us
 
 
 
 

South Anchorage Farmers’ Market March 11, 2023 HOURS: 10am-3pm
 
 
 
 
By Helen Hegener: Kantishna Roadhouse Denali Park’s Oldest Standing Building
 
 
Helen Hegener Northern Lights Media The Last Great Race 2023

The Official Start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race begins today in Willow, Alaska, and anywhere from 9 to 14 days from now the winning musher will drive his or her team under the burled arch in Nome, almost 1,000 miles away. This is the 51st running of the most well-known and widely-respected sled dog race in the world.
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KTUU: Anchorage police investigating shooting involving juvenile girl; 1 dead in Abbott Loop house fire; No one injured in early-morning building collapse; Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Ceremonial Start from Downtown Anchorage and more ->

 
 
 
 
KTOO: Price Tagish: As Alaska boats age, who bears the cost? And more ->

 
 
 
 
KYUK: Bethel veterans weigh in on cost of living, health care, and suicide rates during VA Secretary visit and more ->
 
 
 
 

Alaska Native News: Former Anchorage Resident Sentenced for Federal Drug Conspiracy and Passport Fraud; As sea ice declines in the Arctic, bowhead whales are adjusting their migration patterns; Caribou have been using same Arctic calving grounds for 3,000 years; This Day in Alaska History-March 1st, 1879; This Day in Alaska History-March 2nd, 1915; This Day in Alaskan History-March 3rd, 1913; This Day in Alaska History-March 4th, 1914 and more ->
 
 
 
 

Fairbanks News Webcenter 11: Fairbanks U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employee charged with fraud and embezzlement of public funds; Fairbanks tour guide sentenced for operating without a permit and more ->
 
 
 
 

KINY: Update: Toaster is found to be cause of fatal fire; Global race to boost electric vehicle range in cold weather; Protect your dog from parvovirus-Juneau Animal Rescue explains and more ->
 
 
 
 

The Seward Journal March 01 to March 07, 2023
 
 
 
 

KFSK: Petersburg hosts first in-person Southeast Alaska Farmers Summit in four years and more ->
 
 
 
 

KRBD: “One Poem a Day” coming in April; AT&T retailer sees opportunity after Verizon shutdown on Prince of Wales Island; Ketchikan’s Borough Assembly greenlights plan for park and playground improvements and more ->
 
 
 
 

KUCB: ‘​​It’s opened up a lot of friendships’: Nigilax̂ workshop focused on community as boat construction continues and more ->

 
 
 
 
Delta Wind: Science Fair packs school and more ->

 
 
 
 
The Alaska 100

Celebrating women-owned businesses
Check out some of our favorite women-owned businesses for Women’s History Month.

March is Women’s History Month and to celebrate, we’ve rounded up a list of some of our favorite women-owned businesses throughout the state. From clothing boutiques to bakeries to tour operators and everything in between, be sure to show these businesses some love this month:

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ADN Calling for Poems
Therefore, April 1 will once again be Poem Day in the ADN’s letters space. If the muse strikes you, submit a poem to letters@adn.com, and we’ll print a selection of the poems we receive. Please identify your submission as a poem somewhere in the subject or body of the submission, so it doesn’t get misfiled.

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Wickersham’s Conscience: Return of Bird of the Week: Parakeet Auklet
 
 
 
 

By Matt Goff, Sitka Nature: Sitka Nature Show #283 – Alia Lesnek (encore)

Craig Medred: Pink tide rising
 
 
 
 

By Alaska Division of Forestry on February 28, 2023: Refresher & basic firefighter training schedule – Forestry 2023

The Division of Forestry & Fire Protection is offering basic firefighter training and Red Card refresher courses across the state. Registration is currently open for most classes and important registration deadlines can be found on the Forestry’s website. Spring is quickly approaching, and we ask that you share this page with people you know who are interested in protecting Alaska. In addition to these training opportunities, a record number of employment opportunities are available for those living within and outside Alaska. Come to the Last Frontier and spend the summer under the midnight sun. Job opportunities for the 2023 DOF season are listed here.

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Courtesy of Cynthia White
???? Do you know of a hydrant in your neighborhood that is buried? How long do you think it would take to get it dug out as needed or if your house was on fire would you rather not wait and find out?

???? I was the first person on the scene if a house fire today with a sad ending. The firefighters had to get help from neighbors to find the hydrant in the first place and then had to dig it out themselves. I don’t know if the ending would have been happier if the hydrant was accessible immediately but I I can’t help but wonder.

????DIG OUT & MARK YOUR HYDRANTS!!!

Here is a map of hydrants

If you know of a buried fire hydrant, call AWWU field services at 907.564.2762.

KTUU: Dog truck mishap on Seward Highway leaves 1 dog missing; Department of Education and Early Development appoints new commissioner and more ->

 
 
 
 
KTOO: On its own: How local organizations piece together search and rescue operations along Alaska’s Arctic coastline and more ->

Alaska Native News: Captain Michael Healy-African-American Legend in Alaska’s History; This Day in Alaska History-February 27rd, 1923; This Day in Alaska History-February 28th, 1967 and more ->
 
 
 
 

Fairbanks News Webcenter 11: Ribbon cutting ceremony held at the new veterans clinic in Fairbanks and more ->

KINY: Rapes and aggravated assaults push Alaska’s violent-crime rates up; property-crime rates fall and more ->
 
 
 
 

KSTK: Wrangell Assembly preview: SE wolves, building permits & more ->

Resurrection Bay Historical Society: Frank Baker will be featured presenter of the “Thursdays: Our History” program starting at 7 pm March 16 in the Library & Museum community room. He will share childhood memories of growing up in Seward in the 1940s-50s. And more ->
 
 
 
 
KFSK: PMC long term care unit experiencing “largest COVID-19 oubreak” to date and more ->

KRBD: Craig’s Millie Schoonover takes over as Alaska Native Sisterhood’s new grand president emeritus and more ->
 
 
 
 

Craig Medred: Ever faster

 
 
 
 
By Megan McDonald, Only In Your State Alaska: Some Of The Most Mouthwatering BBQ In Alaska Is Served At This Unassuming Local Gem

If you’re looking for mouthwatering BBQ in Alaska, head straight to Roscoe’s Catfish and Barbecue in Anchorage. This small hidden gem is a favorite with locals and it’s easy to see why. Every item on the menu stuns and the barbecue is out of this world!
Roscoe’s Catfish and Barbecue is a popular restaurant in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, that serves up delicious Southern-style comfort food.
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KTOO: High avalanche danger in Juneau after record snowfall and more ->
 
 
 
 

Alaska Native News: Anchorage Judge Sentences Eric Lee to Seven Years for 2018 Attempted Murder; Birds in Alaska, 70 million years ago; This Day in Alaska History-February 26th, 1917 and more ->
 
 
 
 
Michael R Dougherty: Anchorage Pioneers Did you know Merrill Field was first named “Aviation Field”?

Meet Anchorage Pioneer, Russel Hyde Merrill in this edition.

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By Matt Goff, Sitka Nature: Winter Birds and Snowy Landscapes
 
 
By Matt Goff, Sitka Nature: Birds and Lichens on a Gray December Day
 
 
By Matt Goff, Sitka Nature: Sawmill Cove Divers
 
 
 
 
Geophysical Institute – UAF Official: Inspiring Girls Expeditions Alaska: Teaching Science & Art w/ Nature’s Guidance – Science for Alaska