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Alaska tribe’s members say corruption, self-serving deals brought Manh Choh...
A DOTPF map of the route along which Kinross Gold plans to haul ore from the Manh Choh Mine near Tetlin to the Ft. Knox Mine mill north of Fairbanks. (Alaska Department of Transportation) In Interior...
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Cook Inlet natural gas producer says it’s sitting on large deposit, but...
Cook Inlet oil platforms are visible from shore near Kenai, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk) Natural gas is essential to generating heat and electricity for many Alaskans. A looming...
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Anchorage police roll out body cameras, with about a quarter of officers...
An Anchorage police vehicle at a crime scene Nov. 24, 2023. Police say an officer fired at a man who pointed a pepper spray gun at him. (Valerie Lake / Alaska Public Media). Some Anchorage police...
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Alaska’s domestic violence rates remain high, as advocates push for more...
People filled vases with flowers at a vigil in honor of those affected by domestic violence on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023 in Bethel. (Sunni Bean/KYUK) Alaska has some of the highest rates of domestic...
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Southcentral Alaska mayors form coalition to address looming natural gas...
Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson (left) announces a coalition of Southcentral Alaska mayors formed to address the region’s looming natural gas shortfall. Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Peter Micciche...
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Alaska chapter of federal MMIP report highlights historic violence, legal...
A group sings on the steps of the Alaska Capitol in Juneau for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day on May 5, 2022. (Photo by Paige Sparks/KTOO) Last month, a federal commission aimed...
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Alaskans would get big PFDs but no per-student education funding increase in...
Gov. Mike Dunleavy listens to a question during a news conference announcing his budget proposal on Dec. 14, 2023. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy last week announced his...
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Anchorage’s homegrown Howard Weaver remembered as a ‘national-caliber newsman’
Anchorage Daily News publisher Kay Fanning, left, and Howard Weaver, second from right, on May 3, 1976, when the ADN was awarded its first Pulitzer Prize. The newspaper’s office was then in downtown...
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Yes, most of Alaska will have a white Christmas, except for Southeast
Anchorage recieved nearly 70 inches of snow from the last two months. (Mizelle Mayo/Alaska Public Media) Even with an El Niño climate pattern cycling warmer water up to Alaska, temperatures have...
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Search continues for woman who disappeared under Eagle River ice
Crews resumed a search along the north fork of Eagle River on Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023 for Amanda Richmond, last seen disappearing under ice three days earlier as she tried to rescue one of her dogs....
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Feds award $9M to research carbon capture for proposed Southcentral Alaska...
The UAF coal plant in Feb. 2022 (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media) The University of Alaska Fairbanks is set to receive a $9 million grant from the Biden administration to research a project that would...
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Alaskans begin filing for 2024 Permanent Fund Dividends
The State of Alaska’s PFD Office, located in downtown Anchorage, in August 2022. (Valerie Kern/ Alaska Public Media) Alaskans can now apply for their 2024 Permanent Fund Dividends, as the filing...
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With Anchorage’s record-setting snow, officials say it’s not a bad idea to...
An ice dam forms on the roof of an Airport Heights home in Anchorage in 2023. (Valerie Kern/Alaska Public Media) Anchorage residents are wondering if they should shovel their roofs, with...
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Veteran Anchorage TV reporter and anchor Maria Downey announces retirement...
Maria Downey outside Alaska Public Media Studios on Tuesday, January 9, 2024. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) Longtime Anchorage journalist and news anchor Maria Downey has announced that she will...
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Alaska excluded from free IRS direct tax filing pilot program
(Courtesy of the Internal Revenue Service) Taxpayers in Alaska will not be a part of a program to directly file federal taxes with the Internal Revenue Service. In October, the IRS announced a new...
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Anchorage Museum pauses free admission policy for Alaska Native visitors
The Anchorage Museum exterior declares the land Dena’ina homelands (Anchorage Museum) The Anchorage Museum is pausing its move to make admission free for Alaska Native people. The policy, announced...
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Amazon opens first Alaska sorting facility in Anchorage
The new Amazon sorting facility in Anchorage on Friday, Jan. 19, 2024. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) The global e-commerce behemoth Amazon has opened its first sorting facility in Alaska. The...
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Anchorage museum exhibit spotlighting Filipino-Alaskan history defaced with...
A display at the Anchorage Museum exhibit “MANA: The History We Inherit.” The project is an oral history effort documenting the lives of Filipinos across Alaska. (Ammon Swenson/Alaska Public Media) An...
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Southcentral Alaska waterways survey finds widespread microplastics
Sea Grant fellow Joi Gross takes a water sample from Campbell Creek to examine it for microplastics. (Courtesy of Dyani Chapman) Microplastics are everywhere. The tiny fragments of polluting material...
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Alaska inmates among 53 indicted in drug ring targeting communities,...
S. Lane Tucker, U.S Attorney for the District of Alaska, speaks at a press conference in Anchorage on Thursday,. Jan. 25, 2024. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media) More than 50 people have been charged...
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