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Birch trees with newly green leaves at Alaska Public Media on Wednesday, May 13, 2020. (Casey Grove/Alaska Public Media) Summer has arrived in Alaska, at least as far as the trees are concerned. Pollen counts are high and it seems everyone is sneezing, coughing, and wheezing. Do you have questions about seasonal allergies? What about…

Former Alaska Rep. Chris Tuck, D-Anchorage, discusses a bill in 2019. Tuck has filed to run for Anchorage mayor in 2024. (Skip Gray/KTOO) Former Anchorage state legislator Chris Tuck has filed to run for Anchorage mayor next year.  Tuck, a Democrat, filed a letter of intent Wednesday with the Alaska Public Offices Commission. He’s the…

Pharmacist Andre Neptune holds vials of Cisplatin and Carboplatin. They’re chemotherapy drugs in short supply in Alaska. (Cassandra/AKPM) 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: A severed undersea…

Two of Grubby’s joeys arrived at the Alaska Zoo on Friday. (Lori Stackhouse/Alaska Zoo) The Alaska Department of Fish and Game caught another baby opossum in Homer late last week, bringing the total to five since the capture of their mom, Grubby, in late May. But Jason Herreman, a wildlife biologist at Fish and Game,…

Pharmacist Andre Neptune holds vials of Cisplatin and Carboplatin. They’re chemotherapy drugs in short supply in Alaska. (Rachel Cassandra/Alaska Public Media) Two common chemotherapy drugs are in short supply in Alaska. Cisplatin and carboplatin are used to treat many types of cancer – like ovarian, bladder and testicular cancer. According to the state health department,…

Bishop Alexei of the Orthodox Church of Alaska made his first visit to several remote communities in the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands this spring. He assumed the leadership position in the church in 2022. (Theo Greenly/KUCB) 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…

A Hanjin container ship at the Port of Seattle, April 5, 2012. (Creative Commons photo by James Brooks) The Port of Seattle shut down its cargo operations on Saturday due to labor conflicts, and the Port of Alaska says it could affect the state. About 90% of Alaska’s goods arrive by ship or barge, and…

Quintillion contractors laid some 1,200 miles of fiber-optic cable off Alaska’s northern and northwestern coasts in the summer of 2017 to connect to an overland fiber cable that the company extended from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay. (Quintillion graphic) Repairs to a fiber-optic data cable supplying nearly all Western Alaska are underway, after an undersea cut…

The first-season finale of “Race to Survive: Alaska” was broadcast Monday, June 5 at the Katirvik Cultural Center in Nome. (Ava White/KNOM) Nome residents and brothers Oliver and Wilson Hoogendorn, competing as the AK Boys on USA Network’s “Race to Survive: Alaska” TV series, took home the championship on Monday during a watch party –…

The courthouse in Kenai. (Sabine Poux/KDLL) Former union president and Soldotna teacher Nathan Erfurth will be released to third-party custodians on house arrest this week, per a bail hearing Thursday morning. Erfurth was arrested in May on charges of sexual abuse of a minor, related to an alleged sexual relationship with an underaged former student. He’s been…

An Alaska State Trooper K-9 Unit SUV. (Joey Mendolia/Alaska Public Media) Two women found dead in the Trapper Creek area June 2 were the victims of murder, Alaska State Troopers said. Troopers discovered the bodies of 30-year-old Fairbanks resident Sunday Powers and 34-year-old Anchorage resident Kami Clark while investigating Powers’ disappearance, according to a written…

The Anchorage Museum Atrium on June 8, 2023. (Dev Hardikar/Alaska Public Media) The Anchorage Museum is holding its monthly Sensory Friendly and Access Morning this Sunday. It’s an opportunity for people on the autism spectrum and people with developmental and physical disabilities to visit the museum while it’s quiet. “It’s a really wonderful time for…

Gage Saxton testifies to the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School Board on board policies. (Screenshot) The Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District School Board on Wednesday passed a pair of board policies aimed at transgender students and sex education by a 6-1 vote without much discussion among board members.  The policies require written parental permission before students can change…

Incoming Rear Admiral Megan Dean shakes hands with incumbent Rear Admiral Nathan Moore at a U.S. Coast Guard District 17 change-of-command ceremony on June 9, 2023. (Photo by 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…

Hellen Fleming, co-owner of Showdown Productions outside Williwaw Social. (Courtesy of Hellen Fleming) This week on State of Art we’re talking about the Sundown Solstice festival. The three-day concert features a mix of well-known, up-and-coming and local artists whose music ranges from hip-hop, electronic and rock. The festival starts Friday, June 16 and runs through…

U.S. Sens. Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski at the 2020 opening ceremony for the Operation Lady Justice Task Force Cold Case Office in Anchorage. (Jeff Chen/Alaska Public Media) Alaska’s two Republican U.S. senators had nearly opposite responses to the indictment of former President Donald Trump. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said the charges in the case are…

Yhvana Rupecio holds a banner that reads “We the People Means Everyone.” (Hope McKenney/KUCB) 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. Thursday on Alaska News Nightly: NOAA tells southeast troll fishermen that they…

A dog named Thor keeps watch at a campsite on a vacant lot in Midtown Anchorage as Kyla Freidenbloom packs up belongings on June 6, 2023. City workers posted signs in the area on May 24 that said they would begin clearing camps soon. (Jeremy Hsieh/Alaska Public Media) A park in Midtown Anchorage has become…

A fisherman pulls a chum out of the Yukon with a Kenai-style dip net. Sometimes nontraditional gear types are permitted to allow for the exclusion of chinook. (Kyle Clayton/KYUK) People on the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers are expecting another dismal year for harvesting salmon, the food that used to fill their smokehouses and freezers. It’s…

The dairy case at Dillingham’s Alaska Company store. (Christina McDermott/KDLG) Darigold’s ultra-pasteurized 64-ounce cartons are now 59 ounces, meaning WIC participants can no longer buy the product with their checks, e-cards or vouchers. WIC participants in rural Alaska already contend with high prices and limited food options. In Bristol Bay, the cost of milk is…