KTUU: Wilmer Beetus, First Chief of Hughes, dies at 62 and more ->
KTOO: State’s draft energy plan highlights familiar Alaska megaprojects, offers vague plans for renewables and more ->
Alaska Native News: Federal grand jury indicts 10 defendants in large drug trafficking ring; This Day in Alaska History-October 29th, 1919 and more ->
Fairbanks News Webcenter 11: Updated data sheds light on missing Alaska Natives statewide and more ->
KCAW: Sitka celebrates Día de los Muertos
Tag Archives: AK News
Alaska News October 25-28, 2023
KTOO: Teal Street Center gathers many of Juneau’s social services under one roof; ‘Kuhaantí,’ a children’s book written entirely in Lingít, is the first of its kind in decades; Mga Kuwento, Ep. 4: Holding two identities in Juneau’s Filipino and Lingít community and more ->
KYUK: Bethel Native Corporation announces 2023 shareholder distributions, including first-ever ‘Elders Benefit’ and more ->
The Seward Journal October 25 to October 31, 2023
KFSK: Petersburg Hospital Board to hear report on pilot childcare programming and welcome new specialists and more ->
KRBD: Production wraps on Emilio Torres’ film “The Ladder” in Ketchikan and more ->
Delta Wind: EMS still has signs of life in Delta Junction and more ->
KMXT: Kodiak Island Borough takes lawsuit with KANA to Alaska Supreme Court and more ->
By Jean Carmela Lim, AeroTimeHub: BA flight diverted to Alaska after overheated phone scorches business class seat
By Sara Manriquez, UAF: Dead Writers event will raise funds for visiting author series
CutterLight: Sentinel
CutterLight: Igloo: Arctic Home made of Whale Bone, Ship Timbers & Sod
Simple Living Alaska: 0:58 / 34:28 Milling Logs into Lumber | Rough Cut 2×6 for the Shop Walls
Alaska News October 23-24, 2023
KTOO: Vic Fischer, the last surviving signer of Alaska’s constitution, dies at 99
KTUU: Family and friends react to passing of Alaska great Vic Fischer
Victor Fischer (May 2, 1924 – October 22, 2023) was a German-American politician from the state of Alaska. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention that drafted Alaska’s constitution in 1955 and 1956. After the death of fellow delegate Katie Hurley in 2021, Fischer was the last surviving participant in the constitutional convention. Fischer later served in the Alaska Senate, as president of the University of Alaska Institute of Social and Economic Research, and as assistant secretary of the Housing and Home Finance Agency.
KINY: Alaska Department of Public Safety releases Annual Crime in Alaska report and more ->
KRBD: Whale Pass wants carbon credits instead of timber sale but state says no and more ->
Resurrection Bay Historical Society: Thursdays: Our History on Nov. 16 will feature Mary Ann Benoit, president of the Seward Rotary Club, detailing her organization’s work on the Rotary Park Fish and Wildlife Viewing Area.
KMXT: Midday Report October 23, 2023
Daily Sitka Sentinel ->
By Prentiss Pemberton, Alaska Public Media: Line One: Women’s health and cancer
Gold Rush Cam.com: Department of Justice Announces Violence Against Women Act Alaska Pilot Program
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By Megan McDonald, Only In Your State Alaska: The Small-Town Diner Where Locals Catch Up Over Breakfast And Homemade Pie
By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection: October is National Firewood Month: Learn about harvesting firewood on State land near you
Alaska News October 21-22, 2023
KYUK: Mountain Village’s Under 5 Fair: building bonds and boosting literacy and more ->
Fairbanks News Webcenter 11: Strengthening Alaska’s electrical grid resilience and more ->
KNBA: Thousands in Anchorage saw the “Meaning of Home” exhibit, a collection of art showcasing the talents of homeless people.
Science: The collapse of eastern Bering Sea snow crab
Michael R Dougherty: Anchorage Fun Memories
What did you like to do for fun in Anchorage, Alaska? You’ll enjoy this memory-filled edition
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Viktor Posnov: Adak. Westernmost city of US. Calm, Dramatic, Ambient Music
Simple Living Alaska: Preparing our Vehicles for a Cold Dark Alaskan Winter
Alaska News October 19-20, 2023
KTUU: Lone bear cub leads officers on chase through Petersburg grocery store and more ->
KYUK: ‘They have a loyalty’: AFN photos capture generations of Alaska Natives’ military service; Commissary returns to Bethel and adds Nome delivery; The fall fuel barge is visiting the last villages in the Y-K Delta before freeze up and more ->
Alaska Native News: Alaska Air National Guard rescues plane crash and car accident victims in single sortie; Coast Guard rescues overdue boater after vessel grounding at Hump Island; AFN Convention: 2023 Citizens of the Year and Denali Award Winners; This Day in Alaska History-October 19th, 1951; This Day in Alaska History-October 20th, 1897 and more ->
Fairbanks News Webcenter 11: $13.9 million grant funds ACTION Project and more ->
KINY: FCC explores ways to address Alaska’s connectivity challenges and more ->
KSTK: Wrangell officials look to ensure new housing lots go to year-round locals and more ->
KRBD: Ketchikan breaks a daily record with nearly 7 inches of rain and more ->
KUCB: Unalaskans reflect on mental health benefits of arts and community at annual Make a Difference dinner and more ->
KMXT: New seafood refrigeration class trains next generation of specialists and more ->
Cutter Light: The Bones of Tikigaq: Whaling Festival Site, Point Hope, Alaska
Cutter Light: Point Hope, Alaska from the Air
Alaska News October 18, 2023
1867 – United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
Alaska Day is a legal holiday in the U.S. state of Alaska, observed on October 18.[1] It is the anniversary of the formal transfer of territories in present-day Alaska from the Russian Empire to the United States, which occurred on Friday, October 18, 1867.
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KTUU: Woman indicted in viral Halibut Cove encounter between boat, floatplane agrees to plea deal; 104 Anchorage homicide defendants included in court backlog, 21 are released on bail and more ->
Delta Wind: Local arrested for Aug. 29 hit and run fatality and more ->
KTOO: Alaska ski guide’s new book, ‘The Avalanche Factor,’ aims to improve education on snow slides; As the once-lucrative Bering Sea crab harvest resumes, Alaska’s fishers face challenges and more ->
KYUK: Bethel Upward Bound Club Drone Fest takes flight and more ->
Alaska Native News: 2022 Alaska Drug Overdose Mortality Update; This Day in Alaska History-October 18th, 1867 and more ->
Fairbanks News Webcenter 11: Doyon installs two wind turbines in Deadhorse and more ->
KINY: 2nd Annual Real Talk Walk/Run Event Happening October 21 and more ->
KSTK: LISTEN: Wrangell third-graders sing songs for Alaska Day and more ->
The Seward Journal: October 18 to October 24, 2023
KFSK: Petersburg tender boat temporarily transforms fish hold into improvised sound stage and more ->
KUCB: Three Unalaska Raiders place in top 20 at state cross country meet and more ->
KMXT: Alutiiq Museum commissions new atkuk to display in galleries after construction and more ->
By Leann Bentley, USA Ski and Snowboard: 2023-24 Stifel U.S. Cross Country Ski Team Announced
Cutter Light: Dog Sled Races, Shishmaref, Alaska
KRBD: Ketchikan’s federal subsistence designation being reconsidered and more ->
KMXT: Cost Savers bought by Native Village of Afognak and Sun’aq Tribe and more ->
Alaska Business Monthly: Mammography on Wheels
Michael R Dougherty, Anchorage Pioneers: Meet Anton Anderson, “Mr. Alaska Railroad”, and discover who created the Whittier Tunnel in this edition of the Anchorage Memories VIP Club.
Simple Living Alaska: Winter Has Arrived at The Cabin | 2024 Alaska Calendar
Alaska News October 16, 2023
Alaska Highway News: New guideline urges doctors to regularly screen for alcohol use disorder
Cutter Light: Pedal Bike
Cutter Light: Ravenous Sea
Cutter Light: Photo of the Day: Main Street, Shishmaref, Alaska
Cutteer Light: Photo of The Day: Shishmaref Aerial
Cutter Light: Disappearing Island
Lofty Minded in Alaska: Illuminate: A ten-day journal series of self-discovery
LIVE FROM STORYKNIFEOctober 17 | 7-8PM AKDTvia Zoom
Live from Storyknife if a monthly reading series featuring the guest residents of the Storyknife Writers Retreat. Please join us to hear outstanding work by the September residents:
Dayna Bateman is a recovering tech worker. Someday soon she’ll finish HUSTLING VINYL, a hybrid history/memoir about the record business, learning to listen, and her dad.
Julia Bouwsma lives off-the-grid in the mountains of western Maine, where she is a poet, homesteader, editor, teacher, and small-town librarian. Bouwsma is Maine’s sixth Poet Laureate and the author of two poetry collections: Midden (Fordham University Press, 2018) and Work by Bloodlight (Cider Press Review, 2017), both of which received Maine Literary Awards for Poetry Book. She is the Library Director for Webster Library in Kingfield, ME.
Brittany Retherford is a writer, fisherman, and licensed social worker based in Juneau. She is working on multiple projects focused on stories of how communities in Alaska journey through grief, triumph, connection, hope, and mental illness. She earned a Masters in Arctic and Northern Studies from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, is a former daily newspaper reporter and anthropologist, and is currently training as a sex therapist.
Sara Daniele Rivera is a Cuban Peruvian American artist, writer, translator, and educator. Her poetry and fiction use speculative and realist lenses to explore themes of migration, memory, and language. Her debut book of poetry, The Blue Mimes, will be published by Graywolf Press in 2024.
Erin Roberts is a speculative fiction writer who tells stories across formats, including prose, interactive fiction, and tabletop roleplaying games. She is currently a Provost’s Early Career Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin and one of the co-hosts of Writing Excuses, an award-winning podcast for writers by writers.
Alaska News October 14-15, 2023
Snow Removal
Snow Plan Summary
It is the policy of the municipality of Anchorage to plow, store, or remove snow from publicly owned rights-of-way.
Arterial and collector streets and priority1 sidewalks are to be plowed with first priority. Remaining streets and Priority 2 sidewalks in the Anchorage and Drainage Service Area (ARDSA) will be plowed to full width within 84 hours after the snow storm ends, with driveways gated.
Snow from cul-de-sacs will be placed on adjacent rights-of-way where space is available.
As resources permit, snow will be hauled only from streets with rights-of-way of insufficient width to store snow.
“No-parking” hours for snow removal in the downtown area will be from 2:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m.
Sidewalks in the Central Business District are completed by the Anchorage Downtown Partnership and will be enforced by the Right of Way Enforcement Division.
Ice Control throughout the city will use aggregate pre-wetted with liquid deicer for selected intersections, hills, school bus stops and other high hazard areas. Aggregate will be used in residential areas when road conditions require it.
Useful links:
Snow Plowing | Anchorage Street Maintenance (arcgis.com)
Street Owners and Maintenance Providers (arcgis.com)
Winter Pedestrian App (arcgis.com)
Sign Up – Smart911 — RAVE
2023-2024 Anchorage Municipal Snow & Ice Control Plan
Delta Wind: BLM AFS, U.S. Army to burn debris piles on military training lands
By Jacob Dye, Peninsula Clarion: Sharing about sharing the land
By David Lochead, Nunatsiaq News: First-time Inuit writers festival running in Iqaluit this weekend Titiraqtat: Inuit Circumpolar Writers Festival to take place runs from Friday through Sunday
Kodiak Daily Mirror: Kodiak writer releases first novel
“You’ve got to write about what you know about,” is advice that retired Kodiak longliner and newly minted author Michelle Weekly took to heart in her first young adult novel, “Paloma’s Rage.”
NuttyNu: ALASKA REINDEER FARM | FAMILY VLOG
Wings and Wheels Alaska: We Split Up | Alaska Overland Adventures
Alaska News October 12-13, 2023
KTUU: Anchorage drivers urged to stay alert as new law goes into effect; Assembly approves final changes to emergency cold weather shelter plan and more ->
KTOO: Juneau’s cold weather shelter likely will be in a Thane warehouse this winter and more ->
KYUK: Rescuers find a second Atmautluak man dead after collision with barge on the Kuskokwim River; With Ravn Alaska discontinuing flights to Aniak soon, Ryan Air will operate 2 new flights and more ->
Alaska Native News: Federal Judge Allows AFN to Intervene in Case Challenging Katie John; The Mellon Foundation Awards $1.7M to the Indigenous Place Names Project; This Day in Alaska History-October 12th, 1930; This Day in Alaska History-October 13th, 1905 and more ->
Faribanks News Webcenter 11: FNSB hires Code Enforcement Officer, ending summer’s total lack and more ->
KINY: Don’t mess with this mama bear: Grazer easily wins popular Fat Bear Contest at Alaska national park and more ->
KSTK: Wrangell approves $19.5 million contract for new drinking water treatment plant and more ->
KFSK: Petersburg Ranger District authorizes wilderness survival show, “Outlast,” to film in Little Duncan Bay and more ->
KUCB: Unalaska hires police chief, 10 months after former chief resigns and more ->
KMXT: Midday report