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An in-person voting site. (Elyssa Loughlin/Alaska Public Media) Matanuska-Susitna Borough voters re-elected conservative incumbents in all but one race in local elections for Assembly and School Board seats Tuesday. Preliminary election results show incumbent candidates winning in each race except for Assembly District 5, where Bill Gamble took 58% of the vote, unseating Mokie Tew.…

Winter traffic moves along the Glenn Highway near Anchorage Bass Pro Shops store. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) 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 podcast. Tuesday on Alaska News Nightly: Anchorage’s newest emergency cold…

Winter traffic moves along the Glenn Highway near Anchorage Bass Pro Shops store. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) Fresh off a 6-inch weekend snow dump, Anchorage is set to see a wave of snowfall overnight Tuesday, transitioning into freezing rain and icy roads by Wednesday evening. The Anchorage area will be under a winter storm watch…

Snow covers a side trail near Tikishla Park in Anchorage (Lori Townsend/Alaska Public Media) To enjoy winter in the North, or at least to get by with your faculties intact, you have to have a strategy for the darkness of winter. Some of us see it as a chance to nest; to spend more time…

Members of the public wore yellow and waved signs as a protest against the proposed policy changes to the student representative position at the Mat-Su school board meeting on Sept. 6, 2023. (Tim Rockey / Alaska Public Media) Two first-time candidates are hoping to unseat conservative incumbent Matanuska-Susitna School Board members in Tuesday’s election. Technically,…

Jessie Maxim in Anchorage, brought out his snow blower to help clear the fresh fallen snow on Monday, November 6, 2023. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) 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 podcast. Monday…

HIV infecting a human cell. (NIH Image Gallery from Bethesda, Maryland, USA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, is working with Alaska’s Division of Public Health to better understand why the Fairbanks and the Interior region has seen a cluster of new HIV cases over the past…

Memorial signs mark the spot where Molly Parks and Marie Giesbrecht were killed in a July 4, 2016 crash while they rode in a Petersburg Borough van. (File/KFSK) From fishing to logging to mining — dangerous jobs are the engine of Alaska’s economy, and the state has one of the highest workplace fatality rates in…

The underside of the U.S. Capitol dome, as viewed from the Rotunda. (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media) There’s no resolution yet in the pressure campaign U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan launched against a fellow Republican to get more than 300 military promotions to the Senate floor for confirmation. Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama shows no sign of…

From the 10th floor of the famous Begich Towers in Whittier, Alaska, Bibo Chung swings her son Porter in a bucket while her husband Victor Shen contemplates kayaking the roadside ditch that’s gushing with meltwater. Baby Jasper clutches a giant pillow and painters tape. Much of the greater Shen family has lived in Whittier since…

Pink salmon returning to Prince William Sound, Alaska, hatcheries contributed to record-setting abundances in recent years and to impacts on other marine species. (Photo by Preston and Teresa Cole) A new scientific paper published this fall shows that the pink salmon population is booming in the North Pacific Ocean — and global warming is helping…

Tourists from cruise ships walk on the Juneau waterfront on May 9, 2023. (Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) The state of Alaska broke its 2019 record for cruise ship tourism this summer, with Alaska’s capital city recording 1.65 million passengers this year, according to figures released Thursday at a meeting of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce. Most…

Bret Herrick. (Alaska State Troopers photo) A man who shot and severely wounded an Alaska State Trooper in Anchor Point has been ordered to serve 59 years in prison. A Superior Court judge in Homer sentenced 62-year-old Bret Herrick on Wednesday. A jury earlier found Herrick guilty on all counts he faced in the Aug. 23,…

Shishaldin Volcano erupting on Oct. 3, 2023. (Chris Thomas/AVO) 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 podcast. Friday on Alaska News Nightly: Alaska health officials want help from the CDC to understand a cluster…

City and Borough of Juneau public works employee Randal Jim replaces the “Seward St.” sign with one the reads “Heritage Way” on Nov. 1, 2023. (Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO) 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…

Patty Raymond-Turner, a coordinator for the Brain Injury Council of Alaska, demonstrates what happens to the brain when it is injured, on Sept. 26, 2023, in Anchorage. (Claire Stremple/Alaska Beacon) S. can’t remember how many times she has been hit in the head, but she remembers vividly the time she was choked. Those are two…

Anthony Pisano, accused of killing three men in 2017, sits at his second trial at Nesbett Courthouse in Anchorage on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) A second Anchorage jury is now judging whether a man facing an array of financial problems murdered three men at a Spenard gold business six years ago.…

Indra Arriago Delgado prepares her offrenda of loved ones that passed for Día de Muertos. (Mizelle Mayo/Alaska Public Media) 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 podcast. Wednesday on Alaska News Nightly: Sen. Sullivan…

Sen. Dan Sullivan in Anchorage in July 2021. (Jeff Chen/Alaska Public Media) U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan launched a dramatic political maneuver against a fellow Republican on the Senate floor Wednesday in a clash that pits two deeply-held Republican values against each other: opposition to abortion and support for the military.  Sullivan, leading a band of…

Crew members adjust the net as it releases fish aboard the Northern Hawk factory trawler on Aug. 5, 2023 in the Bering Sea. (Loren Holmes/Anchorage Daily News) Amid catastrophic shortfalls in salmon harvests in some of Alaska’s rural, Indigenous communities, advocates have pleaded for a crackdown on unintentional catch of those same salmon by the trawl vessels…