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Gay rights activists carry rainbow flags as they march during a May Day rally in 2013 in St. Petersburg, Russia. (File/AP) TALLINN, Estonia — Russia’s Supreme Court effectively outlawed LGBTQ+ activism on Thursday, the most drastic step against advocates of gay, lesbian and transgender rights in the increasingly conservative country. Ruling in response to a…

Donald McQuade, center, poses for a photo with Public Defender Agency attorneys Benjamin Dresner, left and Kyle Barber at the Nesbett Courthouse in Anchorage on Nov. 29, 2023. McQuade, of Gresham, Oregon, is standing trial for the murder of 16-year-old Shelley Connolly in 1978, who was found dead along the Seward Highway south of Anchorage.…

Donald McQuade, center, poses for a photo with Public Defender Agency attorneys Benjamin Dresner, left, and Kyle Barber at the Nesbett Courthouse in Anchorage on Nov. 29, 2023. McQuade, of Gresham, Oregon, is standing trial for the murder of 16-year-old Shelley Connolly in 1978, who was found dead along the Seward Highway south of Anchorage.…

A float plane departs the small community of Tenakee Springs in February 2020. (Ari Snider/KCAW) The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act allowed for Alaska Native communities to establish for-profit corporations more than 50 years ago, but five Southeast communities were left out. There are now federal bills that would recognize Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee Springs…

Charlie and Mel Hazel have lived at mile 12.7 of Zimovia Highway for 10 years. Their floating dock – a retirement project for Charlie – has become a hub of evacuations and emergency management in the days since Wrangell’s deadly landslide (Anna Canny/KTOO) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, and comments…

Jessica Swan talks about her daughter, Mackenzie Wilson, next to a memorial for her in the family living room in Eagle River on Jan. 6, 2023. Wilson died on during an Air Force ROTC event on June 24, 2022. (Jeremy Hsieh/Alaska Public Media) A judge in Idaho has dismissed a manslaughter case involving a 19-year-old…

The city building in Little Diomede shifts into the school after a partial collapse on Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023. (Courtesy Carla Ahkvaluk) Little Diomede residents have concerns about safety and utilities after the city building partially collapsed into the school on Sunday morning. No injuries have been reported according to Jen Wallace, an emergency management specialist for…

Downtown Anchorage. Alaska’s minimum wage must legally increase at the same rate as consumer prices in Anchorage. (Dev Hardikar/Alaska Public Media) Alaska’s minimum wage will increase to $11.73 per hour next year, under the terms of a 2014 ballot initiative. The voter-approved statute is an attempt to keep up with inflation, and mandates that the…

The deactivated Fort Greely nuclear reactor’s vapor containment structure is seen in this screenshot of an Army Corps of Engineers video. (From U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) The Army Corps of Engineers is looking at the feasibility of burying non-radioactive materials removed from Fort Greely’s old nuclear power plant at the Delta Junction landfill. The…

The village of Kasigluk is seen during the Bethel Search and Rescue Kuskokwim River aerial survey on Nov. 18, 2023. (Courtesy Bethel SAR) Bethel Search and Rescue is recommending against all travel on the Kuskokwim River due to open water and thin ice, after the group completed its annual aerial freeze-up survey of the Kuskokwim over the…

A condo on Sorbus Way in Midtown Anchorage went up in flames on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media) No one was seriously injured in a house fire in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Anchorage on Friday, but a plume of thick, black smoke was visible for much of the Midtown area. Anchorage…

Law enforcement personnel block off the entrance to the Rainbow Bridge border crossing on Wednesday in Niagara Falls, N.Y., after a vehicle exploded at a checkpoint. (AP Photo/Carolyn Thompson) The Rainbow Bridge, which connects the United States and Canada at Niagara Falls, N.Y., has been closed after a vehicle exploded at a checkpoint on a…

Sisters Baileigh Krause (left) and Tawney Letterman (right) compete in a women’s pinball night at the Bearcade in Juneau on Nov. 14, 2023. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO) Juneau’s pinball community has created a space where women can play without as much pressure — women’s-only nights. Anyone who identifies as a woman or non-binary can play.…

The deactivated Fort Greely nuclear reactor’s vapor containment structure is seen in this screenshot of an Army Corps of Engineers video. (From U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, and comments to news@alaskapublic.org. Follow Alaska Public Media on Facebook and on Twitter @AKPublicNews. And subscribe to the Alaska News Nightly…

Tevita Paletua, a volunteer for Food Bank of Alaska, gives a plate of food to a child at the Mountain View Community Center on Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) Every year, the Food Bank of Alaska organizes volunteers and food donations to provide boxes of Thanksgiving dinners to families in need.  The…

Sen. Murkowski talks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol in 2020. (Jeff Malet/MaletPhoto.com) Congressional decorum hit a low point last Tuesday, with an outbreak of bad behavior that veered toward violence. Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., accused former House speaker Kevin McCarthy of elbowing him in the back as they passed in a hallway. That same…

A Nov. 21, 2023 view of the Wrangell landslide looking north. (Courtesy Calib Purviance via State of Alaska) A massive landslide took out three homes on a highway outside of Wrangell late Monday. Three people had been found dead as of Tuesday night, and search and rescue efforts continue, along with an outpouring of community…

An Anchorage resident blows snow off his driveway on Friday, Nov. 10, 2023. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) Over the last two weeks, many Anchorage residents have been frustrated by snow-clogged roads, after storms dropped 40 inches of snow on the city in ten days.  Tiffany Hanson lives in Spenard and said graders finally came through…

Childhood photo of Juneau potter Mercedes Munoz with her grandmother artist Rie Munoz. (Courtesy of Mercedes Munoz) Potter Mercedes Munoz is a fifth generation Alaskan from Juneau who grew up in a family supportive of the arts. Her grandmother is the late Rie Munoz, one of Alaska’s most well-loved artists who created colorful depictions of…