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(B. Hernandez/WikiCommons) Anxiety Disorders impact almost 20 percent of adults yearly. Panic attacks, phobias, paranoia, and Obsessive-Compulsive behaviors, are just a few of the psychological manifestations of “anxiety gone wrong.” On the next Line One, Host Prentiss Pemberton and his guest will explore how anxiety disorders manifest themselves, and treatment options for these complex conditions.…

Marina Anderson on the Landback Issue of Vogue Tongass. Tristan Douville helped put the covers together. (Photo by Bethany Goodrich) 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: Federal officials investigate an interaction between the Russian…

The Brother Francis Shelter in July, 2020. The shelter has been operating at about half of its normal capacity due to the COVID-19 pandemic and is currently able to house 114 people. (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media) Anchorage officials say they are embarking on a widespread testing effort at the city’s homeless shelters and soup kitchens…

A Russian vessel participating in military exercises on the Bering Sea steams past the pollock trawler Vesteraalen on Wednesday. (Courtesy Steve Elliott) Steve Elliott’s trawler, the Vesteraalen, was fishing for Bering Sea pollock Wednesday afternoon when he and his crew started hearing voices speaking Russian on their ship’s radio — an unusual development, given that…

Assistant Interior Secretary of Indian Affairs Tara Katuk Sweeney at the August 26, 2020, ceremony for the Operation Lady Justice Task Force Cold Case Office in Anchorage. (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 Thursday on…

Chena Marina, near the location of the crash. (Wikimedia photo) Two airplanes collided over an airstrip in Fairbanks, killing two people, according to Alaska State Troopers. Two others survived the crash with serious injuries. The planes collided in midair and descended onto a gravel runway next to the Chena Marina Floatpond. AST says it received…

The Brother Francis Shelter in July, 2020. The shelter has been operating at about half of its normal capacity due to the COVID-19 pandemic and is currently able to house 114 people. (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media) The number of COVID-19 infections linked to the Brother Francis Shelter in Anchorage has spiked to 61, health officials…

Tony Knowles (left) and Steve Cleary talk at an overlook on the Coastal Trail near downtown Anchorage. Knowles, who served as Anchorage Mayor in the 1980s, says getting public support for trail projects is essential for pushing them through (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. You can subscribe to Alaska Public…

A runner descends the Crow Pass Trail, which could become a piece of the Alaska Long Trail, a 500-mile chain of trails from Seward to Fairbanks (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media) Since the pandemic started, storefronts in towns around Alaska may have emptied, but trails? “They’re jammed with people and that’s all the trails — trails…

Northeast National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. (Photo by Bob Wick, image courtesy Bureau of Land Management) ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Environmental groups have filed lawsuits aimed at halting efforts by the Trump administration to open up wide swaths of Alaska’s Arctic to oil drilling. The two separate lawsuits were filed late Monday challenging the Bureau…

An image of the flight tracks for the two planes that collided midair near Soldotna on July 31. The the Piper PA-12 is in blue and the de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver is in green. (National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report) A new report from the National Transportation Safety Board says the Alaska lawmaker piloting one…

Attorney General Kevin Clarkson ( File Photo by Skip Gray/360 North) 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: Alaska Attorney General Kevin Clarkson resigns over texts he sent a younger state employee. And, more students…

Angoon, pictured here in 2017, is home to about 460 people. (Photo by KCAW Raven Radio) Angoon has reported its first confirmed case of the coronavirus. The City of Angoon’s Emergency Operations Center announced the case Monday evening in a press release on Facebook after learning of it from the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium. Read more…

Chinook salmon make their way up Ship Creek to spawn. (Ryan Hagerty/USFWS) Nearly all species of salmon caught in Alaska have gotten smaller over the last six decades, according to a study published recently in the journal Nature Communications. The decline in body size among chinook, sockeye, coho and chum salmon has a negative impact…

A digital simulation of what the proposed Pebble Mine’s foundation will look like if it receives a federal permit. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) 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: Pebble mine opponents say…

Caribou graze on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with the Brooks Range as a backdrop. (USFWS) The Gwich’in Steering Committee and more than a dozen environmental groups are suing the Trump administration over its plan to open up part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas development. The…

KL Marshall, originally from Texas but currently living in Alaska (thanks to COVID-19 shuttering her graduate school), is an academic writing her doctoral thesis at the University of Edinburgh School of Divinity. Her topic is an examination of dispensationalism, a religious interpretation of the Bible that says biblical history is divided into eras, or dispensations,…

Outside Nome-Beltz High School in October 2018.(Katie Kazmierski/KNOM) Nome public schools will open in the “Red Phase” after a student-athlete tested positive for COVID-19 on Aug. 20. That means that when school opens next on Aug. 25, students will not be going to class at Nome-Beltz High School or Anvil City Science Academy school buildings,…

A Southcentral Alaska doctor faces charges he over-billed Medicaid by having his patients’ urine unnecessarily tested at a lab he personally owns. At one point, the doctor allegedly received 10 times the amount of Medicaid reimbursements of the combined total of all Alaska doctors filing claims for such lab services. A grand jury indicted Dr.…

(National College of Natural Medicine) Have you been frustrated by a chronic medical condition? Have you failed several traditional treatments? Naturopathic medicine, oftentimes acknowledged as a “last resort,” is a practice where patients work together with a naturopathic physician to determine the cause of their condition. From there, naturopathic physicians develop more holistic treatments for…