By Patrick Moussignac: Empty chairs outnumber people at hearing on SB 91 fix
Instead of the required 24-hour notice on the hearings, lawmakers made the announcement the night before. That led to lots of empty seats and some complaints at the LIO, where Anchorage resident David Manzer wasn’t happy.

“If you have a hearing on a Saturday, please post the call-in number to the website,” Manzer urged legislators. “It says call in to get the number, yet when you call in of course that number is only manned during the workdays — Monday through Friday, 8 to 5.”
 
 
 
 
By Nathaniel Hertz: Alaska Native groups and leaders double down on criminal justice reform, citing over-incarceration
 
 
 
 
By Cameron Mackintosh: Iditarod artwork raises money for family of injured Anchorage firefighter
 
 
 
 
By Scott Burton, KTOO: New Perseverance play explores local love mystery
 
 
 
 

By Sean Maguire: Beer lovers come from across the U.S. to buy a rare Alaskan ale
 
 
 
 
By Scott Burton, KTOO: New Perseverance play explores local love mystery

By Kyle Hopkins: Unconstitutional? Inmates seek to ban practice of ‘human chains’ in Alaska court rooms
 
 
 
 
By Sean Maguire: Alaska SeaLife Center’s Beluga whale calf named “Tyonek”
 
 
 
 
By Sean Maguire: APD arrests 3 people in “problem house” in South Anchorage
 
 
 
 
By CBS News: 95% of Alaska’s glaciers affected by climate change: NPS
 
 
 
 
“It will be more expensive.”
By Heather Hintze: Chugach Electric moves forward on community solar project
Customers interested in getting on a wait-list can email save_energy@chugachelectric.com.
 
 
 
 
By Patrick Moussignac: Anchorage School District loses millions
 
 
 
 

Contested Bristol Bay salmon ends up in Alaska landfill
Information from: KTOO-FM, http://www.ktoo.org
 
 
 
 

By Leroy Polk: UPDATE: Fischer found guilty on all counts for murdering Alaska prosecutor
 
 
 
 

By Daniella Rivera: Chiropractor arraigned in child malnutrition death
 
 
 
 
By Sean Maguire: 3 people arrested for ramming a stolen car into police vehicles
 
 
 
 

By Leroy Polk: Ketchikan man shot, killed at Alaska logging camp in apparent homicide
 
 
 
 
By Liz Raines: SB 91 praised for re-entry funding
 
 
 
 
By Heather Hintze: Mushers call for investigation into Dallas Seavey drug tests
 
 
 
 
By John Tracy: Reality Check: What do Alaska LNG plan, Iran nuclear deal have in common
 
 
 
 
By Laurel Downing Bill: Story Time with Aunt Phil: Judge James Wickersham

By Sidney Sullivan: Anchorage mother and her boyfriend charged in death of 2 year-old girl
 
 
 
 
By Leroy Polk: Adopted children testify against woman they say abused them for years
 
 
 
 
By Sidney Sullivan: Anchorage man charged for child pornography
 
 
 
 
By Photojournalist Shawn Wilson: VIDEO: Anchorage Halloween display vandalized
 
 
 
 
By Austin Baird: Lawmakers focus on revamping SB 91 as tax talks stall
 
 
 
 
By Cameron Mackintosh: Iditarod sponsors react to dog doping controversy
 
 
 
 
By Victoria Taylor: Collaborative effort granted $2M to expand services and housing for homeless

High Wind Watch until 04:00PM Thursday
 
 
 
 
By Liz Raines: SB91 loophole: No jail time for sex abuse of a minor– if it’s first offense
 
 
 
 

By Lauren Maxwell: Anchorage Police discuss right way to report a crime
 
 
 
 

By Daniella Rivera: Homicide victim’s family hopes $5,000 reward will help police solve the case
 
 
 
 

By Sidney Sullivan: Woman charged for conspiracy to commit murder in 2015 death
 
 
 
 
By Associated Press: Juneau officials hope to open warming center for homeless
 
 
 
 
By Dan Carpenter: Anchorage Assembly gives the Port of Anchorage a new name
 
 
 
 
By Mike Ross: Radio show helps addicts find new beginning
New Beginnings airs on KOAN 95.1 FM/1080 AM and KZND 94.7 FM.

The program is a subsidiary of Bridges2Recovery, an Alaska based non-profit.

For information, visit the organization’s website.

By Kalinda Kindle: Ravn Alaska hosts Women in Aviation Day
 
 
Women in Aviation
 
 
 
 
UAA Expands Inupiaq lessons with new website

 
 
 
 
Rasmuson Foundation – By Alex Teplitzky: Creative Capital: Chilkat Artist Lily Hope on Working in Juneau
Lily Hope’s work is on view in the permanent collection at the Portland Art Museum. Check out her website to learn more about her work.

By KTVA Web Staff: 3 men posing as APD break-in to apartment
 
 
 
 
By Liz Raines: Special session: House fast-tracks crime bill, governor’s tax lacks support
 
 
 
 

By Blake Essig (KTUU): North Pole man returns home after surviving Las Vegas shooting
 
 
 
 
Ariane Personal PPD Submission
 
 
 
 
By Associated Press: Alaska-owned aerospace company lines up commercial launches
 
 
 
 
By Samantha Angaiak: City plans to tear down DHHS building, add senior housing and replace DHHS building at new location
 
 
 
 
Excellent news!
By Joe Vigil: Injured Anchorage firefighter makes progress in recovery

 
 
 
 
By Heather Hintze: Moose: 1 Prius: 0
 
 
 
 

By KTVA Web Staff: For Alaska pilots, the sky is the limit
 
 
 
 

Internet Celebration Day?
By Leroy Polk: Last segment of cable installed for internet in remote Alaska communities

 
 
 
 
By Leroy Polk: Anchorage robber pulls knife on store employee, drops keys to getaway car
 
 
 
 
Free Flu Shot Clinics This Wednesday and Thursday
The Municipal Department of Health and Human Services and Anchorage School District are hosting free flu shot clinics on Wednesday and Thursday. Flu shots are available to the general public, for anyone 6 months of age and older. The vaccine, Quadrivalent, is designed to protect against two influenza A and two influenza B viruses. A limited number of the “high dose” flu vaccine will be available for people 65 years of age and older.
 
 
 
 
Alaska Highway News Local Highlights
 
 
 
 
By William D. Cohan: Journalism’s Broken Business Model Won’t Be Solved by Billionaires
…
But the story of Alice Rogoff and the Alaska Dispatch News is a cautionary tale that shows the limits of what a wealthy owner is willing, or able, to do for a struggling newspaper in the digital era.
 
 
 
 
Halloween at the Library
 
 
 
 
49 Writers Blog – Nancy Lord | The Need for Science Writing
On Wednesday, Oct. 25, I’ll be presenting a free 49 Writers craft talk and reading at the Indigo Tea lounge at 7 p.m. We’ll consider the art of writing science into fiction. Science fiction has been with us for a very long time, but embracing scientists as characters and scientific concepts and practices within all kinds of fiction—speculative or not—gives us new opportunities as readers and writers. I’ll talk about that, read a bit from my novel, and invite conversation.

I’ll also be giving two 49 Writers writing workshops about science writing for general audiences. In Fairbanks on Sat. Oct. 28 from 1-4 at the Bear Gallery and in Anchorage on Sunday Oct. 29 from 2-5 at the Alaska Humanities Forum office. Details at http://49writers.org/class-catalog.
 
 
 
 
Cinthia Ritchie: Poetry acceptance, and lots of Tucson love
 
 
 
 
Craig Medred: Reality Check
 
 
 
 
Craig Medred: Iditarod down
In the wake of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race’s first, publicly revealed doping case, the International Federation of Sleddog Sports has moved to distance itself from the globe’s premier sled-dog competition.

In “an open letter” to the organizers of the 1,000-mile race from Willow to Nome, the global governing body for sled-dog sports disavowed any connection to the embattled Alaska event.

 
 
 
 
Sitka Nature Windy Day

Flag presented to family of Alaskan killed in Las Vegas shooting
 
 
 
 
By Associated Press: FBI arrests ex-manager of Juneau’s historic Bergmann Hotel
 
 
 
 
By Victoria Taylor: APD: 2 adults, 3 juveniles arrested following 10-minute spree of armed robberies
 
 
 
 
Anchorage Mushing District
A proposal currently making the rounds at community council meetings eyes designating a portion of the city to honor mushers.
 
 
 
 
By Sean Maguire: AST: Coast Guard rescues six stranded hunters on Saint Lawrence Island
 
 
 
 
Once-pristine Arctic choking on our plastic addiction
 
 
 
 
Special session scheduled in Juneau, but Senate to meet in Anchorage
 
 
 
 
Story Time with Aunt Phil: The Story of Ruby

By Victoria Taylor / Sean Maguire: Dozens of crashes reported Saturday following first measurable snowfall of the season
Click here for more tips on winter travel.
 
 
 
 
By Cameron Mackintosh: AFN adopts resolution on endorsing U.S. presidential candidates
 
 
 
 
By Sean Maguire: Police defuse a downtown fight involving a crowbar, hammer, and handgun
 
 
 
 
By Juan Montes: Coast Guard rescue a crewman after falling 20 feet
 
 
 
 
The Salvation Army says it has plenty of room for those fighting their addiction