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From his wheelchair, Alfred Koonaloak looks out across the parking lot of the Sullivan Arena in Anchorage on Thursday. (Jeremy Hsieh/Alaska Public Media) Walter Tikiun has been staying at the Sullivan Arena since October. The Anchorage hockey arena turned into an emergency shelter at the beginning of the pandemic, closed last June, and then reopened…

The James M. Fitzgerald U.S. Courthouse & Federal Building in downtown Anchorage on Aug. 31, 2022. (Valerie Kern/Alaska Public Media) Scammers stole nearly $1.2 million from an Alaska couple in an elaborate scheme that emptied their retirement savings and turned it into cryptocurrency. That’s according to a court filing related to the federal government’s seizure…

From left to right: Anchorage Assembly candidates Anna Brawley, Scott Myers, George Martinez, Karen Bronga and Zac Johnson. (candidate photos) Results are still trickling in for Anchorage’s municipal election, but the margins in the Anchorage Assembly races are wide. The body is set to keep its mostly progressive supermajority. That means it will maintain its…

Prudhoe Bay. (Photo courtesy of BP) JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Department of Energy has approved an order that would allow a proposed mega-gas project in Alaska to export liquefied natural gas overseas, though it remains unclear if the project decried by environmentalists will be built. Thursday’s action reaffirms a 2020 authorization by the…

On February 17, 2008, the skies above Shiveluch Volcano in Russia’s Far East were clear and calm, allowing the ASTER instrument on NASAs Terra satellite to catch this view of a column of ash from a recent eruption seemingly frozen in the air over the mountain. (NASA image) An ash cloud that has drifted from…

Kuskokwim River Chinook salmon dries on a rack near Bethel in 2001. (Photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) A Superior Court judge in Bethel has dismissed a lawsuit accusing state officials of unconstitutionally mismanaging Yukon River and Kuskokwim River salmon fisheries, leading to a crisis on those rivers. Judge Nathaniel Peters, an appointee of Gov.…

Aetos Kilgore (Jameson Robbins), left, battles Argon Kilgore (Tate Tucker) during a battle royale following Iron Sky’s 2023 Highland Games at Ketchikan’s Ward Lake. (Eric Stone/KRBD) 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.…

Anchorage Library Director Virginia McClure poses for a photo at the Loussac Library on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. (Jeremy Hsieh/Alaska Public Media) This week on State of Art we’re getting up to speed on what’s happening at the Anchorage Public Library. We’re joined by Director Virginia McClure, who was confirmed by the Anchorage Assembly back…

Screenshot from YouTube video posted by Sen. Joe Manchin. 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: Senator Lisa Murkowski makes a trip to Ukraine in support of its…

An Alaska Airlines flight comes in for a landing at the Juneau International Airport. (Heather Bryant/KTOO) Three men in separate incidents this month have been arrested for alleged bad behavior on flights to or within Alaska. The three recent arrests occurred over the span of 10 days. According to charging documents filed in federal court,…

Acting Anchorage municipal manager Kent Kohlhase speaks during a special Anchorage Assembly meeting on Jan. 20, 2023. Kohlhase was named permanent municipal manager in April. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson has named Kent Kohlhase as the city’s municipal manager.  Kohlhase has been acting in the job since December, when Bronson abruptly fired…

Melissa Berns-Svoboda opened Nuniaq in downtown Kodiak this winter, and plans to expand the location to include a dine-in section by the summer. (Kirsten Dobroth / KMXT) 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…

The Anchorage School District Education Center street sign. (Mayowa Aina/Alaska Public Media) The Anchorage School District placed Service High School principal Allen Wardlaw on administrative leave Wednesday, according to an email sent to families.  The district has begun an “investigation into community concerns” about Wardlaw, according to the email, signed by Kersten Johnson-Struempler, the district’s…

In this photo provided by Mandy Iworrigan is Nanuq, in the middle with Brooklyn Faith, after the 1-year-old Australian shepherd was returned to Gambell, Alaska, on April 6, 2023, after it disappeared for a month and walked on the Bering Sea ice 150 miles to Wales, Alaska. On the left is Zoey with Starlight and…

Summer chum salmon drying on a fish rack. Fall chum are starting to show up on the Yukon. Photo: Matthew F. Smith, KNOM. 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…

Incumbent Assembly candidate Felix Rivera sign waves on Election Day, April 4, along with his supporters and supporters of Assembly candidate Anna Brawley. (Elyssa Loughlin/Alaska Public Media) A week after Anchorage’s mail-in municipal election, nearly all progressive and moderate Assembly candidates continue to hold comfortable leads over their challengers.  City officials have counted about 60,000…

Summer chum salmon drying on a fish rack. (Matthew Smith/KNOM) Proposals to limit chum salmon bycatch in the Bering Sea are moving ahead, but slowly. After reviewing recommendations over the weekend, the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council asked for further analysis to help develop possible chum bycatch limits or additional regulations on the Bering Sea…

John and Christina Pruitt have been shoveling snow for an hour around their apartment complex on Telequana Drive early Monday afternoon. (Mizelle Mayo/Alaska Public Media) Snow dumped on Southcentral Alaska this weekend, with more than 8 inches falling in the Anchorage area and about 5 inches in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. That brought this year’s winter…

A small group of environmental demonstrators gather near the Capitol in downtown Juneau on April 26, 2022 to protest pollution from large cruise ships. (Photo by Paige Sparks/KTOO) Two conservation groups are suing the Environmental Protection Agency over its alleged failure to finalize standards to protect U.S. waterways from harmful vessel discharges, including those from…

A new study shows zooplankton are getting skinny with lack of sea ice. (NOAA) Zooplankton are small organisms — like sea snails, jellyfish, and krill — and they’re crucial to the Bering Sea’s ecosystem. But new data from NOAA Fisheries shows that one of the most common zooplankton isn’t as fatty or abundant as it used to…