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Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz speaks at a July 31, 2020 press conference (Screenshot from Mayor Berkowitz Facebook) At a press conference on Friday, Mayor Ethan Berkowitz announced a new emergency order closing restaurants and breweries to indoor service. Bars and nightclubs will be closed to dine-in service. Emergency Order 15 also limits indoor gatherings to…

Sen. Lisa Murkowski is a member of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. (Photo by Liz Ruskin/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: Senator Lisa Murkowski condemns President Trump’s tweet predicting election fraud.…

Haines is 39 miles south of the Canadian Border. (Photo by Henry Leasia) The Canadian border has been closed to non-essential travel since March. That closure has been extended until August 21. And the Canadian Border Services Agency announced Thursday that it will be adopting stricter rules for travelers passing through Canada to Alaska for essential purposes. Starting July…

Guardsmen prepare to remove Bus 142 in June, 2020 (Alaska National Guard Public Affairs) The ‘Into the Wild’ bus where Christopher McCandless died will likely find a home at UAF’s Museum of the North. The Department of Natural Resources announced that it had would likely be putting the bus in the museum, located on the…

The Lake Otis coronavirus testing site on July 28, 2020, when the city sent out an alert warning of traffic disruption due to long lines (Matt Faubion/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 Wednesday on Alaska News…

The Lake Otis coronavirus testing site on July 28, 2020, when the city sent out an alert warning of traffic disruption due to long lines (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) Anchorage’s Emergency Operations Center announced it is opening five new testing sites around the city.  Tests at the new locations will be free and open to…

Anchorage Police Officer Cornelius Pettus contacts Samuel Allen on Sept. 30, 2019. (Screen grab from Northern Corruption Monitor 907 YouTube) An Anchorage police officer has been indicted for assaulting a man while serving him with a bicycle citation in 2019 and, along with another officer, on charges of tampering with public records. Officers Cornelius Pettus…

A traveler off of a flight from Seattle makes his way through a COVID-19 screening line at Juneau International Airport on June 26, 2020. (Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO) All nonresident travelers to Alaska will be required to have a negative test for the coronavirus before they arrive in the state beginning on Aug. 11.  Gov. Mike Dunleavy…

Scene of the accident that killed four on Monday night in Petersburg. ( Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department) Four people died in a vehicle wreck south of Petersburg. It’s believed the late model SUV went off Mitkof Highway sometime Monday night.  On Tuesday morning Alaska State Troopers received a report that a group had headed to…

Residents in Unalaska heading to higher ground after a tsunami warning on Tuesday, July 21, 2020. (Hope McKenney/KUCB) 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: Workers in Alaska hope the state’s senators will support extending…

Julia Terry and Veri di Suvero protest in favor of a controversial city plan to purchase properties, including the Best Western Golden Lion, to use as homeless services, housing and treatment sites on Monday, July 27, 2020. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) Nearly thirty hours of in-person public testimony on a city plan to purchase property …

Lena Ayuluk and her grandmother, Albertina Charles, sit surrounded by berries and Labrador tea behind Charles’ home in Mertarvik, Alaska. (Katie Basile/KYUK) 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: Some residents say they’re healthier after…

The Yakutat Harbor in August 2017. The small community of around 600 people now has five cases of coronavirus, according to local health officials. (Emily Kwong/KCAW) The City and Borough of Yakutat reported four new coronavirus cases over the weekend.  Yakutat Incident Command announced Sunday, July 26 that there are currently five known cases of…

A microscopic image of coronavirus (Photo from NIAID) Alaska again set a one-day record for new coronavirus cases, with 231 reported on Sunday, according to the state’s coronavirus dashboard.  Of those, 158 were in residents of Anchorage, where a seafood processing plant reported 56 cases on Friday.  With Sunday’s numbers, the state reached 2,524 reported…

Workers remove the bones from salmon fillets at Alaska Glacier Seafoods’ Auke Bay processing plant (David Purdy/KTOO) Another 21 employees of Alaska Glacier Seafoods in Juneau tested positive for COVID-19 over the weekend.  A total of 61 people who work at the processing facility have tested positive since the outbreak was discovered. Health officials traced the…

The logo for Story Works Alaska. HOST: Kathleen McCoy According to Story Works Alaska’s own website, its mission is “to support youth voices through storytelling and writing workshops that develop skills, build resilience, and increase access to opportunity. We believe in the importance of listening, the protective value of connection, and the power of stories…

The Anchorage Health Department in downtown Anchorage. (Joey Mendolia/Alaska Public Media) Anchorage Health Department announced on Friday that 56 of 134 employees at the Copper River Seafoods plant in Anchorage tested positive for COVID-19 between July 17 and July 22. Thirty more employees have tests pending and 14 have not been tested. Nearly all are…

Workers were leaving the Atwood Building in downtown Anchorage on Friday, July 24, after concern about COVID-19 cases closed the state office building. (Julia O’Malley/Alaska Public Media) The state Robert B. Atwood office building in downtown Anchorage closed down Friday due to COVID-19 exposure risk for employees.  Gov. Mike Dunleavy has offices in the building…

(Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska) Districts across Alaska are gearing up for the start of the school year. And depending on where you live, school may be completely online- or close to normal. The decisions on how to educate students during the pandemic are difficult and teachers are caught in the middle. So how do teachers feel about…

Members of the media walking to an exploratory drill rig at the Pebble Mine Exploratory site. (Photo by Jason Sear/KDLG) 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: The proposed Pebble Mine clears a major regulatory…

“Unheard” at the Anchorage Museum. (Screenshot from anchoragemuseum.org) This week on State of Art we’re learning about “Unheard.” It’s a reporting partnership between the Anchorage Daily News and Propublica, an independent investigative news organization. On the heels of winning a Pulitzer Prize for their series “Lawless,” the ADN and Propublica began publishing stories from sexual…

Deena Bishop, superintendent of the Anchorage School District, outlined plans for the opening of Anchorage schools ahead of the 2020 school season. (Mayowa Aina/Alaska Public Media) Anchorage School District superintendent Deena Bishop announced Friday that ASD will begin the school year with its “high-risk” scenario for school operations. Under this model, schools will start the…