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A neighborhood near downtown Haines flooded Wednesday morning, Dec. 2, 2020. (Henry Leasia/KHNS) Heavy precipitation, mudslides and flooding have damaged infrastructure across the Haines Borough over the past week. City and state workers are busy protecting and restoring roads, the water supply and the electrical grid. There are more roads closed in Haines than can…

The former site of the Redbout Lake Cabin, photographed a day after it was destroyed in a landslide on May 12, 2013. (Kevin Knox photo) On a really basic level, a landslide is a bunch of earthen material that moves downhill, taking rocks, trees and — like the one in Haines on Wednesday — sometimes…

Heavy rains led to a landslide in Haines on Wednesday, December 2. (Jacob Cheeseman photo) 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: The Trump administration sets a date for a lease sale in the Arctic…

Byron Corral helps pass out boxes of food at the Food Bank of Alaska’s emergency distribution site in Anchorage. (Tegan Hanlon/Alaska Public Media)   As winter deepens and the economy continues to be hampered by COVID-19 restrictions, how much additional pressure is there on the state’s social service programs for vulnerable Alaskans? With budget reductions and…

A landslide in Haines swept houses, trees and debris across Beach Road and into the bay in front of town on Dec. 2, 2020. (Woody Pahl) Alaska State Troopers and the Haines Volunteer Fire Department evacuated residents by boat Wednesday afternoon after a large landslide crashed through a stretch of homes. Searchers are looking for six…

A scanning electron micrograph of a cell (blue) heavily infected with particles of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Image captured from a patient sample at a federal lab in Maryland. (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Nineteen more Alaskans were hospitalized with COVID-19, the state health department reported on Wednesday.  The new cases…

Goose Creek Prison. (Ellen Lockyer/KSKA) 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: Inmates at the Goose Creek prison and their loved ones grapple with a growing coronavirus outbreak. And, some Bristol Bay residents cheer the…

An Alaska State Trooper cruiser. (Matthew Smith/KNOM) A Mat-Su teenager has been charged with killing his aunt and three cousins in Palmer and Wasilla Monday. Tuesday afternoon, 18-year-old Malachi Maxon was charged with multiple counts of first-degree murder, as well as one count of attempted murder and trying to escape from law enforcement. RELATED: Four dead,…

The outdoor recreation area for the Special Management Unit at Goose Creek Correctional Center in Wasilla in October. (Anne Hillman/Alaska Public Media) Facility-wide testing of the Goose Creek Correctional Center in Point Mackenzie shows that the COVID-19 outbreak is getting worse.  Testing of the more than 1,300 inmates at the facility that began last week…

A crane prepares to move a shipping container off a cargo ship and onto a truck at the Port of Alaska on March 22, 2020. Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz says this is business as usual at the port. (Mayowa Aina/Alaska Public Media) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. You can subscribe to Alaska Public Media’s…

Alaska Supreme Court Chief Justice Joel Bolger addresses the Alaska Federation of Natives convention on Oct. 18, 2019 (Wesley Early/KOTZ) Alaska Supreme Court Chief Justice Joel Bolger plans to retire in June, the court system announced on Monday.  Bolger was appointed to the supreme court by Gov. Sean Parnell in 2013. His retirement will coincide with the…

Karie Holtermann stands in the headworks of the island’s wastewater treatment plant, where all of Unalaska’s waste comes to. About 350,000 gallons of waste and grey water run through the facility every day. That’s about 70 gallons per Unalaskan per day. (Hope McKenney/KUCB) Unalaska and Dutch Harbor sit 800 air miles away from Anchorage. And…

Plains Cree and European artist Meryl McMaster poses on the northern peninsula of Newfoundland, a first point of contact between indigenous and Norse peoples over 1,000 years ago. Canaries in her headdress are not a native species. and represent displacement. (Image courtesy of ‘Extra Tough,’ Anchorage Museum) In early November, in the midst of a…

Hospital officials, doctors and other medical support staff are raising the alarm over high coronavirus case counts in Alaska, illness among their own ranks and the diminishing number of available beds for critical care. The Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation’s hospital in Bethel. (Katie Basile/KYUK) How are hospitals managing the growing number of hospitalizations? What are the…

Chohla Moll’s science class in 2019. (Elizabeth Jenkins/Alaska’s Energy Desk) As Americans watched the presidential race draw to an end over the last few months, an educator in Sitka was quietly celebrating her own executive victory. Earlier this year, Mt. Edgecumbe High School’s Chohla Moll won one of the most prestigious awards a science teacher…

YKHC workers wait to perform COVID-19 tests. (Katie Basile/KYUK) The president of Alaska’s hospital association said this week that Alaska is already suffering from a shortage of health care workers as coronavirus cases continue to climb.  Thanksgiving get-togethers could only make things worse, he warned. Speaking on Talk of Alaska, Jared Kosin, of the Alaska…

The Emerald Princess is moored on July 27, 2017, at the South Franklin Street Dock in Juneau. (Tripp J Crouse/KTOO) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention increased the severity of its warning against cruise ship travel. The Level 4 warning is the agency’s strongest recommendation against cruise travel. It means there is a “very high level…

Goose Creek Prison. (Ellen Lockyer/KSKA) The COVID-19 outbreak at Alaska’s largest prison continues to grow.  A total of 299 inmates at the Goose Creek Correctional Center near Wasilla had tested positive for the virus as of Tuesday. That’s an increase of nearly 100 since last Wednesday, when 204 people had reportedly tested positive.  Department of…

Greer Gehler is an Anchorage emergency room nurse who recently tested positive for the coronavirus. (Greer Gehler photo) 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: An Anchorage ER nurse discusses being one of many healthcare…

An MH-60S Seahawk Helicopter assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 21 conducts “touch and go” drills aboard U.S. Coast Guard cutter Munro during the 2020 Rim of the Pacific exercise. Ten nations, 22 ships, one submarine, and more than 5,300 personnel participated in the exercise from August 17 to 31, 2020 at sea around the…

Opponents of the Pebble mine project rallied in Anchorage in 2017. (Photo by Henry Leasia/Alaska Public Media) The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation has an opportunity to veto the Pebble Mine. But a document obtained through a public records request suggests to mine opponents that DEC doesn’t intend to use it. RELATED: Army Corps denies…

Greer Gehler is an Anchorage emergency room nurse who recently tested positive for the coronavirus. (Greer Gehler photo) It started last Friday with a tickle in her throat. Greer Gehler, an emergency room nurse in Anchorage, was on her way home from work. “I chalked that up to sometimes, after wearing a respirator for 12…