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A caribou in the Togiak Wildlife Refuge (From USFWS) In a bid to boost the Mulchatna caribou herd’s numbers, state biologists killed more than 100 bears and wolves last month — but the results are uncertain so far. The Mulchatna herd was once among the largest in Alaska, with a historic range spanning from Dillingham…

Kotzebue (Zachariah Hughes/Alaska Public Media) Two Kotzebue residents are charged with murdering a 33-year-old Kotzebue man in a stabbing last week. Police arrested Calvin Stein, 29, and Audrey Booth, 30, Thursday in the death of Franklin Richards. Richards is the father of Booth’s children, according to a charging document filed in the case. The charges…

Arnaq Esther Ilutsik stands with Superintendent Steeve Noonkesser at an event honoring their retirement. (Christina McDermott/KDLG) 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: Educators express disappointment in Governor…

Cancer patient Elizabeth Arnold sits in the waiting room of the chemotherapy treatment room in Providence Alaska, Anchorage. The center that treats her is struggling with a shortage of one of her drugs, carboplatin. (Rachel Cassandra/Alaska Public Media) Elizabeth Arnold was diagnosed with advanced uterine cancer a month and a half ago.  “People ask me…

U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Jamie Frederick speaks during a press conference about the search efforts for the submersible that went missing near the wreck of the Titanic in Boston on Tuesday. (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images) As of Tuesday afternoon, international rescue crews are still searching the North Atlantic for a submersible vessel…

Gov. Mike Dunleavy announces two education bills on March 7, 2023. (Screenshot via YouTube) 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: The governor’s budget vetoes are in, and…

Gov. Mike Dunleavy at a 2022 candidate forum in Anchorage. (Elyssa Loughlin/Alaska Public Media) Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Monday vetoed more than $200 million from the state budget, including half of the money the Legislature wanted to spend as a one-time increase in public school funding. In a press release, the governor didn’t mention the…

A gray beluga whale calf and three adults swim together in Cook Inlet. A newly released population estimate shows signs of recovery, or at least stablization, among the endangered whales. The unprecedented marine heatwave known as The Blob is believed to have taken a toll, but the population has increased since that heatwave dissipated. (Photo…

Jeremy Cubas, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s former pro-family policy advisor, addressed members of the Alaska Family Council in this video he taped for the governor’s office for a May 11 event. (Screenshot) Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s office says it didn’t review an incendiary video address prepared by the adviser he put in charge of the…

An Alaska State Trooper SUV. (Joey Mendolia/Alaska Public Media) A Minnesota woman died Thursday afternoon on the Parks Highway near Talkeetna, in a three-vehicle collision that Alaska State Troopers say left four other people injured. Troopers learned of the collision near Mile 91 of the highway, which killed 62-year-old Tamela Kringlund, at about 2 p.m.…

Greens Creek Mine facilities seen from Hawk Inlet on May 2, 2021. (Courtesy of Andrés Javier Camacho) The Environmental Protection Agency has fined Hecla Mining Company $143,000 for improper disposal and management of hazardous waste at their mine on Admiralty Island. The settlement agreement cited five violations in 2019 at Greens Creek Mine, a silver mine…

Alaska Federation of Natives President Julie Kitka, Tanana Chiefs Conference board Chairman Brian Ridley and Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska President Richard Peterson all hailed the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the Indian Child Welfare Act. (File/KNBA) Tribes throughout the nation and all across Alaska are celebrating the U.S. Supreme…

The front of the federal courthouse in downtown Anchorage. (Julia O’Malley/Alaska Public Media) Health insurance company Moda is suing a California addiction treatment center, claiming the center falsified Alaska patients’ income in a scheme to overbill Moda by $3.3 million. Moda filed the suit Thursday in federal court in Alaska. It says employees of New…

The graduates of the Set Up Shop program celebrate on June 13, 2023. (Dev Hardikar/Alaska Public Media) A group of Ukrainian refugees, some with years of experience as entrepreneurs, graduated from a new business training program in Anchorage this week. “When the war happened, and they had to uproot their lives and move to Alaska, they…

Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson listens during an Anchorage Assembly meeting on July 12, 2022. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media) Anchorage taxpayers will foot the entire bill for settling a construction contractor’s lawsuit that stemmed from a failure in the mayor’s administration. In a special meeting Friday, the Anchorage Assembly approved paying Roger Hickel Contracting nearly $2.5…

Jeremy Cubas, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s former pro-family policy advisor, addressed members of the Alaska Family Council in this undated video he taped for the governor’s office. (Screenshot) 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…

This November 2018 screenshot from Russian television shows John Martin III standing in downtown Anadyr, a city of roughly 15,000 people in Russia’s Far East. (Screenshot by CoastAlaska) Anchorage police say a homelessness advocate with a checkered past, who once accidentally floated from Alaska to Russia, was shot to death by a fast-food worker early…

U.S. Forest Service fish biologist, Eric Castro, along with his dog, Redden, checks a minnow trap in a tiny stream in Petersburg’s Sandy Beach Park. (Photo by Angela Denning/CoastAlaska) 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…

Ratdawan Haywood was the lone hooligan fisher in the Twentymile River area on the last day of May, trying her luck after being able to fill her five-gallon bucket several times the week prior. (Young Kim) On the last day of May, Ratdawan Haywood tried her luck at the mouth of Twentymile River near Portage.…

U.S. pollock fishermen on the deck of the Commodore. The American pollock industry is among those that object to importing Russian-caught fish through China. (Photo by Nathaniel Herz / Alaska’s Energy Desk) President Joe Biden signed an import ban on Russian seafood last year, but fish valued at several hundred millions of dollars are able…

The Northwest Arctic Borough building in Kotzebue. (Desiree Hagen/KOTZ) 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: A Supreme Court Decision expected soon could overturn the Indian Child Welfare…