Molly Roache looks at the free painting she picked out from the Alaska Collection on Thursday. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) If you’re looking to spruce up your walls this summer, you can get a free Sydney Laurence print at Anchorage’s Loussac Library. Former city mayor and the library’s namesake, Zachariah Joshua Loussac, left his collection…
(Nathaniel Wilder) This story was originally published by Grist. It was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a nonprofit news organization. My small turboprop plane whirred low through thick clouds. Below me, St. Paul Island cut a golden, angular shape in the shadow-dark Bering Sea. I saw a lone island village —…
Christy Marvin win the Mount Marathon women’s race on July 4, 2023. This is Marvin’s third Mount Marathon victory. Her son won the boy’s race. (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…
An Alaska State Troopers SUV. (File/KYUK) A man serving time for domestic violence in Idaho now stands accused in a cold-case murder from more than a decade ago in Alaska. A Palmer grand jury has indicted 36-year-old Keenon Leland Keyes on first-degree and second-degree murder charges in the 2011 death of Loy Suthammavong, the Alaska…
In much of the state, scientists have had their eyes on the crab for years. In communities around Kachemak Bay, they’ve been setting traps for about two decades. (Hope McKenney/KBBI) Unalaska is preparing to start monitoring for European green crabs. That’s after the invasive species was first found in Alaska last July. The crabs could cause…
The Flower Moon is seen through trees in May 2021 in Amesbury, United Kingdom. (Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images) The best show in the night sky this week may not be fireworks. Monday’s night sky will be lit by the first supermoon of the year — so-called because it will be both full and located close to…
The Cook Inlet Natural Gas Storage Alaska facility was built the last time there were warnings about potential shortages. (Sabine Poux/KDLL) More than a year after Cook Inlet’s largest oil and gas producer warned of a looming natural gas shortfall, consultants released a report last week detailing possible ways to fill in the gas gap…
An Anchorage Police patrol vehicle is parked outside the Anchorage Police Department Headquarters on a sunny spring day in early May 2021. (Hannah Lies/Alaska Public Media) Anchorage police have arrested a man accused of killing his 88-year-old neighbor during a Saturday evening home invasion. Court records show Phillip M. Barger, 33, charged with second-degree murder,…
Boaters anchor in Juneau’s harbor to watch its Fourth of July fireworks. (Heather Bryant/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 podcast. Monday on Alaska News Nightly: Army officials say recent efforts to provide…
A lot of people are living in tents and under tarps in the woods at Anchorage’s Mountain View snow dump, pictured here on June 27, 2023. The city posted signs here and at Davis Park warning campers to clear out or face trespassing charges, but then removed the signs on July 1. (Jeremy Hsieh/Alaska Public…
The Upper Kenai River. (Riley Board/KDLL) This weekend on the upper Kenai, one angler caught something even rarer than a king salmon. “She snagged something, and at first we thought it was a trout, ’cause of the way it was wiggling in the water, and it wasn’t pulling as hard as a salmon,” said David…
A pair of Yamaha snowmachines in Norway (Graham Racher/Creative Commons photo) Yamaha Motor Company — the Japanese manufacturer of motorcycles, boats, and other recreational vehicles — announced Wednesday that the company is phasing out production of snowmachines after the 2025 model year. In a statement, the Japanese company said it aimed to grow its business through more…
An Alaska State Troopers vehicle (Elyssa Loughlin/KYUK) Alaska State Troopers shot and killed a heavily armed domestic-violence suspect who on Wednesday, they say, barricaded himself in his house near Ester, just south of Fairbanks. An online trooper dispatch says the incident began Tuesday, when 54-year-old Matthew Heller allegedly threatened a woman at his home with…
Eagle River Special Olympian Bobby Hill (right) and his father Bobby Hill Sr. won four medals at this year’s Special Olympic World Summer Games in Berlin. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) Several Alaska athletes competed in the Special Olympic World Summer Games in Berlin, Germany this month. Eagle River resident Bobby Hill took home a gold…
A girl at Backyard Adventures summer camp dips her toes into the cold water at Anchorage’s Goose Lake on Friday. Camp organizer Tara Blankenship said this is the nicest weather they’ve had in awhile after days of rain. (Dev Hardikar/Alaska Public Media) According to the calendar, it’s summer in Alaska, but you wouldn’t know it…
A U.S. Fish and Wildlife biologist in a kayak keeps birds away from the oil spill on University Lake on Thursday. (Dev Hardikar/Alaska Public Media) An oil spill has indefinitely closed a popular Anchorage dog park. The spill was first reported last week at University Lake, and cleanup is still underway. Kelly Rawalt, a spokesperson…
Aniak from the air (Olivia Ebertz/KYUK) When the Regulatory Commission of Alaska opened the floor to public comment on utilities at its bi-weekly public meeting on Wednesday, residents of Aniak — who saw their power costs quadruple last month — had plenty to say. More than 30 Aniak community members, including elders, teenagers, a Calista…
Programs staff with the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission use a dip net to harvest sockeye salmon on the Kuskokwim River near Bethel on June 28, 2023. (Terese Schomogyi / KRITFC) 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…
Downtown Anchorage on June 30, 2021 (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media) Anchorage’s main electric utility is planning to raise base rates for the first time in three years. Chugach Electric Association is expected to file a rate case with state regulators Friday to increase electricity rates by about 5.9% for most residential and business customers from…
Musicians perform at an Anchorage Chamber Music Festival concert. (Courtesy of Anchorage Chamber Music Festival) This week on State of Art we’re hearing from the Anchorage Chamber Music Festival’s co-founders and artistic directors Christine Harada Li and Nathaniel Pierce. The two started the festival right out of college to share a style of classical music…
Harm reduction specialist Venus Woods holds Kloxxado, an opioid overdose treatment. Last year, her organization 4As gave out 2,500 kits in Anchorage, Juneau and the Mat-Su Borough. (Rachel Cassandra/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 organizers of the 2023 Sundown Solstice Festival are auctioning off this 8-by-12-foot mural painted by artist Jacob Paiz. Half of the winning bid for this mural and 11 others will donated to the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness. (Courtesy of Sundown Alaska) The organizers of an Anchorage music festival that inadvertently led the city…
