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Musher Dallas Seavey is returning to the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race this year. The four-time champion says he’s coming back with a new perspective after wading through some of the biggest challenges of his life. (Jeff Chen/Alaska Public Media) The 2021 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is going to look a lot different, one…

OneWeb LEO satellite. (Courtesy Shawn Williams/Pacific Dataport) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. You can subscribe to Alaska Public Media’s newsfeeds via email, podcast and RSS. Follow us on Facebook at alaskapublic.org and on Twitter @AKPublicNews. Friday on Alaska News Nightly: Governor Dunleavy shares his experience getting sick with COVID-19. And, in Western Alaska, residents are hopeful a new Internet project will…

Alaska Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks at a news conference last year. (Office of the Governor) Alaska Republican Governor Mike Dunleavy said Friday that he’s feeling better and nearing the end of his isolation after getting sick with COVID-19 — and, he added, he didn’t even lose his sense of smell or taste “My voice…

Musher Jeremy Traska gets a rapid COVID test outside the Lakefront Hotel in Anchorage. (Hannah Lies/Alaska Public Media) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. You can subscribe to Alaska Public Media’s newsfeeds via email, podcast and RSS. Follow us on Facebook at alaskapublic.org and on Twitter @AKPublicNews. Thursday on Alaska News Nightly: Iditarod mushers and officials prepare for a race with pandemic-style…

Downtown Anchorage on March 2, 2021 (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media) Restaurants, gyms, and other establishments in Anchorage will be allowed to open at full capacity beginning Monday morning provided they maintain social distancing. Emergency Order 19, announced by Anchorage Acting Mayor Austin Quinn-Davidson on Thursday, also lifts restrictions on organized sports and group gatherings, but…

(Joe Viechnicki/KFSK) Petersburg is among the top hotspots for COVID-19 cases in the country, according to the New York Times. An online interactive map published by the newspaper shows the Petersburg borough with the fourth-highest daily average of new COVID-19 cases per capita for counties in the nation over the past week. In that time…

A visitor takes a photo of a snow sculpture on March 2, 2021, at the annual Snow Sculpture Competition, one of the few events of the 2021 Fur Rondy Festival that was unchanged due to the pandemic. Stories are posted on the statewide news page. You can subscribe to Alaska Public Media’s newsfeeds via email, podcast and RSS. Follow us on Facebook…

Anchorage Health Department public health nurse Molly Carver administers the COVID-19 vaccine to Malia Tuga at the community vaccine clinic held at Manai Fou Assembly of God Church in Airport Heights on Feb. 23, 2021. (Jeff Chen/Alaska Public Media) Alaska is opening COVID-19 vaccines to all Alaskans age 55 and older, those deemed “essential workers”…

Former ANTHC president Andy Teuber. (University of Alaska) Update, 12:45 p.m. The U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday afternoon that it had suspended the search for Teuber’s helicopter, and it offered its condolences to his loved ones. In a prepared statement, the Coast Guard said the debris it spotted Tuesday were “consistent with” debris from Teuber’s…

Police Chief Nate Taylor at work at Cordova Police Department headquarters. (Nov. 12, 2020) Photo by Zachary Snowdon Smith/The Cordova Times. Stories are posted on the statewide news page. You can subscribe to Alaska Public Media’s newsfeeds via email, podcast and RSS. Follow us on Facebook at alaskapublic.org and on Twitter @AKPublicNews. Tuesday on Alaska News Nightly: Ten percent of Cordova residents end up…

Screenshot of the Alaska Youth Orchestras’ virtual Fall concert. The COVID-19 pandemic forced arts groups of all kinds to pivot and reevaluate how they can continue to create, but also reach audiences. The Alaska Virtual Symphony was organized to give musicians much needed opportunities to learn, connect and perform from anywhere in the state. Regardless…

A sign at the Pebble office in Dillingham (KDLG photo) The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will reconsider its decision denying a permit for the proposed Pebble Mine.  The agency has accepted an appeal application from the Pebble Limited Partnership. The Army Corps says the application is sufficient to begin an administrative appeal.  The Corps…

This bone was part of the femur of a dog that lived more than 10,000 years ago. (Courtesy of SUNY Buffalo / Douglas Levere) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. You can subscribe to Alaska Public Media’s newsfeeds via email, podcast and RSS. Follow us on Facebook at alaskapublic.org and on Twitter @AKPublicNews. Monday on Alaska News Nightly: Alaska’s legislators grapple with…

A former Department of Homeland Security law enforcement officer is accused of sexually assaulting three women in Anchorage between 2012 and 2018. Fifty-year-old Bert Christopher Heitstuman [HITES-too-men] faces seven counts of second-degree sexual assault and two counts of second-degree attempted sexual assault. Five of the assaults stem from conduct that happened when Heitstuman worked as…

A vial of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine on Feb. 23, 2021. (Jeff Chen/Alaska Public Media) Anchorage’s main tribal health care provider is opening up COVID-19 vaccines to all Alaskans age 40 and older, plus K-12 teachers and childcare workers.  Southcentral Foundation said in its Monday announcement that it will continue to provide vaccine appointments to…

The M/V LeConte ferry docks in Haines in 2018. (Berett Wilber/KHNS) An individual traveling with Haines High School basketball teams got tested for COVID-19 before departing for a series of away games earlier this week. The positive result of the test came after the girls and boys teams competed in Craig on Tuesday and Wednesday.…

A Grant Aviation airplane lands in Newtok on July 16, 2020, packed with food and supplies. Grant Aviation Agent Jonah Ayuluk and Tribal Administrator Andrew John meet the plane. (Katie Basile/KYUK) A Seattle-based investment firm has bought Grant Aviation.  The airline’s new owner, Westward Partners, invests in lower-middle market companies in the northwestern United States…

Petersburg Medical Center (KFSK) Petersburg’s active COVID-19 cases climbed to 46 yesterday, with results from 271 tests pending. Earlier this week, Petersburg incident commander Karl Hagerman said community spread appears to be happening in multiple settings and locations. A contact tracing team from the State of Alaska has been helping investigate possible sources of spread. They’re asking…

A moderate earthquake centered just 9 miles (14.5 kilometers) northwest of Anchorage shook Alaska’s largest city Saturday. The Alaska Earthquake Center said the temblor was an aftershock of the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that caused widespread damage throughout the Anchorage area in November 2018. The latest quake, which had a preliminary magnitude of 5.3, was located…

Eaglecrest Ski Area ski patroller Tucker Cooper examines snow layers during avalanche mitigation activities Feb. 21, 2021. (Photo courtesy Coastal Alaska Avalanche Center) Residents in a section of downtown Juneau should evacuate due to extreme danger from potentially historic avalanches, the City and Borough of Juneau announced on Saturday. City officials recommended that residents in…