The remains of the Bayside Restaurant after a fire burned through the building on Nov. 5, 2020. (Wesley Early/ KOTZ) A restaurant in Kotzebue is likely a total loss after a blaze Thursday morning. The popular Bayside Restaurant sat on Kotzebue’s Shore Avenue, overlooking the Kotzebue Sound. “At this time, there are reports that there…
Dr. Anne Zink offers updates, best strategies for COVID safety
It seems as if the coronavirus COVID-19 is that unwanted guest who came for a three-day visit; eight months later its still taking up space in our mental spare bedroom. Evidence of its overstay range from long, difficult recoveries or death, to an economy that hit a brick wall and has yet to pick itself…
With more than 100,000 ballots still to count, Alaska campaigns cross fingers and crunch numbers
The campaign of Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, speaking at his Election Night party, argues that there’s “no path to victory” for his Democratic Party-endorsed independent challenger Al Gross. Gross, meanwhile, says “we still believe we are going to win.” (Jeff Chen/Alaska Public Media) More than a third of all the votes cast in this…
Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Election workers at the Mountain View Community Center in Anchorage just after 8 p.m. on November 3, 2020. 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 Wednesday on Alaska News Nightly: Despite thousands of ballots still to count, Alaska candidates and…
Trump wanted to stop the vote when he was ahead. Alaska’s congressional delegation urges patience
Alaska’s congressional delegation. Photos by Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media and Skip Gray/360 North Alaska’s all-Republican congressional delegation is not backing President Donald Trump’s call to stop counting votes. Late Tuesday night, Sen. Dan Sullivan said states have to continue processing the vote in accordance with their own law. “I haven’t heard what the president said,…
Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Voter Wendy Dickman at Hanshew Middle School the morning of Election Day 2020. (Jeff Chen/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 Tuesday on Alaska News Nightly: Alaskans head to the polls on the final day of voting…
‘It’s voting day’: In Alaska’s largest city, residents head to polls
Voter Wendy Dickman at Hanshew Middle School the morning of Election Day 2020. (Jeff Chen/Alaska Public Media) Despite high rates of early voting in Anchorage, plenty of people turned out for in-person voting in Alaska’s largest city. A couple minor issues appeared on Tuesday morning, including at Service High School. A technical glitch in the…
Alaskans line up at polls, as large number absentee ballots wait to be counted
Volunteers and organizers with the Alaska Civic Engagement State (AKCES) Table gather on Election Day 2020 in Mountain View to remind residents to vote. AKCES is a nonpartisan group with 75 volunteers that have been showing up at the polls to support voter education and safety. (Jeff Chen/Alaska Public Media) There were long lines at…
Sullivan ad criticized for ‘anti-Semitic’ images
The campaign of Sen. Dan Sullivan is taking heat for an ad it ran against challenger Al Gross that critics say is anti-Semitic. The online ad imposes a photo of Gross behind a pile of hundred dollar bills. Over Gross’s shoulder is a shadowy image of a face – that of Senate Minority Leader Chuck…
Mysterious mailer boosts Alaska’s third party U.S. Senate candidate at Sullivan’s expense
The back side of a flyer sent to Alaska mailboxes recently endorses Alaska Independence Party U.S. Senate candidate John Wayne Howe and criticizes incumbent Republican Dan Sullivan. (Nat Herz/Alaska Public Media) Mysterious last-minute political mailers have arrived in Alaskans’ mailboxes seeking to boost an obscure third party candidate at the expense of Republican incumbent U.S.…
Anchorage School District still plans to resume in-person learning for younger students on Nov. 16
Students at Aurora Elementary School in Anchorage sing a song about proper handwashing techniques on Oct. 23, 2020. Aurora is one of the schools in the Anchorage School District holding after-school tutoring. (Mayowa Aina/Alaska Public Media) The Anchorage School District still plans to resume in-person learning in about two weeks for its younger and higher-needs…
Alaska News Nightly: Monday, November 2, 2020
Margaret Hall of Kodiak, 101, had a passion for voting. Hall died peacefully, just days before the election this year. (Courtesy of Margaret Hall’s family) 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: A group in…
Seeking horizons upon retirement
A view of Baja, CA. Photo from Don and Donna Ford. Don and Donna Ford camping on the Yukon River. Photo from Don Donna Ford. A foggy view of the Yukon River. Photo from Don Donna Ford. A view from a Kayak of the Inside Passage. Photo from Don Donna Ford. Don and Donna Ford.…
With deadline looming, Dunleavy and legislative leaders trade letters on potential special session
Alaska House Speaker Bryce Edgmon and Senate President Cathy Giessel appeared at a forum with Ben Stevens, Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s chief of staff, at the Alaska Chamber’s fall meeting in Girdwood in October 2019. On Friday, Stevens exchanged letters with Edgmon and Giessel on whether the Legislature would call itself into a special session to…
Election Anxiety, Conflict, Social Division, And Reasons To Hope
A voter enters Inlet View Elementary School on Aug. 17, 2020, the last day of voting in the primary election (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media) According to a recent report from the American Psychological Association, 70% of U.S. adults report significant stress and anxiety about the 2020 election, compared to 52% in 2016. The fight for…
Alaska researchers try to anticipate COVID-19 spikes by testing waste
At Sitka’s wastewater treatment plant, they’re testing the water weekly in an attempt to detect changes to the level of coronavirus present in the community (Katherine Rose/KCAW) As Alaska experiences a new wave of the coronavirus, contact tracers are working around the clock to track exposure. But what if there were a faster way to…
Wayne Westlake out as NANA president
Downtown corporate office of NANA Regional Corporation (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media) Wayne Westlake is no longer president and CEO of NANA Regional Corporation. NANA officials announced the leadership change Thursday evening following its board of directors meeting. Westlake, originally from Kiana, held the position for five years. In a statement, officials wrote Westlake “provided valuable…
On masks, Alaska Gov. Dunleavy tells local leaders to use power they say they don’t have
Alaska Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy, wearing a mask, tours an overflow treatment center at the Alaska Airlines Arena in Anchorage in April. (Office of the Governor of Alaska) An array of public health experts say there’s robust evidence that masks limit the spread of COVID-19. And in Anchorage, one epidemiologist says a mandate may have…
How are Alaska families celebrating Halloween during COVID-19?
10-year-old Gracie Baer demonstrates her “treat transporter” PVC pipe candy chute while dressed as a fortune teller on Friday. (Photo courtesy Nate Baer) Like many celebrations in the last eight months, Halloween is looking a lot different as families try to incorporate public health precautions into their trick-or-treating plans. Nate Baer and his family traditionally…
What do you want to know about animals?
A bear eats a pear at the Fortress of the Bear in Sitka (Zachariah Hughes) Between the coronavirus, the election, and everything else going on, there’s a lot of stress in the air. So this week on Talk of Alaska, we’re focusing on something a little different: animals. We’ll be talking with experts about the…
Alaska News Nightly: Friday, October 30, 2020
10-year-old Gracie Baer demonstrates her “treat transporter” PVC pipe candy chute while dressed as a fortune teller on Friday. (Photo courtesy Nate Baer) 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 says local leaders…
Addressing the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women in Alaska | Alaska Insight
Alaska has some of the highest rates in the country of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. After years of organizing around the issue, advocates are seeing more attention and resources brought to bear. We talk with some of those organizers, as well as the head of a new federal office tasked with addressing…
