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Heartwood by Barbara Becker (Courtesy Barbara Becker) Death is something we all know will inevitably come for us someday, but death is also something that many of us fear. Maybe it’s the uncertainty of what comes next? Or perhaps it’s the fear of “not existing”? Whatever it is has led us, as a culture, to…

Kids in Newtok like to spend their after school hours wading in the local pond, on the hunt for small fish and beetles in the mud. (Emily Schwing for KYUK) 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…

Sockeye salmon use many different parts of the Bristol Bay watershed during their adolescence, research shows. (Jason Ching/University of Washington) Federal regulators are one step away from action that would protect the Bristol Bay watershed and crush the dreams of those who want to see a mine developed to extract ore from the massive Pebble…

A new shipment of the overdose-reversing drug Kloxxado arrived in Anchorage earlier this year. Kloxxado has twice the dose of naloxone as the brand Narcan. (Department of Health and Social Services) Naloxone is the overdose-reversing drug that is becoming more and more prevalent as the nation battles an opioid epidemic.  Alaska State Troopers carry naloxone…

Berth 3 of Ketchikan’s downtown cruise ship docks is shown on April 30, 2022. (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. Wednesday on Alaska News Nightly: For only the second time…

Sealaska Heritage Institute’s Walter Soboleff Building in downtown Juneau. The Alaska Native corporation is one of several involved in selling carbon credits. (Elizabeth Jenkins/KTOO) A dispute among Alaska Native corporations about carbon credit revenue is now in court. Three Native corporations are suing three others, who’ve made at least $100 million and likely more selling…

Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson listens during an Anchorage Assembly meeting on July 12, 2022. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media) Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson on Tuesday vetoed city money to permanently increase capacity at the Brother Francis shelter — and now says he wants to fund it with a grant. The nearly $1.2 million cut is among…

Sen. Dan Sullivan in Anchorage in July 2021. (Jeff Chen/Alaska Public Media) The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed a bill to protect same-sex marriage, with the support of both Alaskan senators, though Dan Sullivan considers it a religious liberty bill. Murkowski, as she went into the Senate chamber to vote, said the bill provides certainty…

Alora Wassily, Harmony Larson, and Trista Wassily with names community members suggested for the creek in Dillingham. (Avery Lill/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: Congresswoman Mary…

Representatives of various institutions that pitched in for a $1.5 million grant to the University of Alaska Anchorage’s School of Social Work pose for photos with oversized checks during a press conference at the university’s Fine Arts Building on Tuesday. The institutions represented include the Alaska Department of Health, Recover Alaska, Providence Alaska, Premera Blue…

Bristol Bay sockeye fillets are processed at Nakeen Homepack during the 2015 season. (Photo by Hannah Colton/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. Monday on Alaska News Nightly: State senators form a…

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 say a man in a dispute with two relatives shot and killed a bystander trying to help, days before he allegedly stole two cars during a crosstown…

The waters around Three Entrance Bay are exposed to ocean swell, and can be hazardous even in calm weather. (KCAW image) A Sitka woman died after a boat capsized near Sitka Sunday morning, injuring two men also on board who were rescued. Sitka police report that Deanna Moore, age 51, her husband, 56-year old Jay…

North Star Hospital on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022. (Bill Roth/ADN) Nick Petito saw a lot in the six months he worked at North Star hospital in Anchorage. Petito wasn’t a therapist. He wasn’t a social worker. He was the maintenance manager, charged with fixing what was physically broken at Alaska’s only psychiatric hospital for children.…

“I voted” stickers are seen on display at a polling station in Juneau’s Mendenhall Valley on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. (James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) A woman accused of voting illegally in both Alaska and Florida during the 2020 elections will face charges in a Florida court on Dec. 8, according to online court records. When Cheryl-Ann Leslie is arraigned…

An Anchorage Police Department car outside West High School on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. (Katie Anastas/Alaska Public Media) Anchorage police arrested two students Wednesday morning after one of them brought a loaded gun to West High School. According to principal Ja Dorris, district staff received a report that a student had a firearm. Anchorage police…

Election officials count ballots on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) The Alaska Division of Elections has been busy counting votes since even before election day, as early, absentee and mail-in ballots arrive. By Wednesday, Nov. 23, workers will be done counting the first choice votes on everyone’s ballot. In previous elections, that’s…

A sign outside the Alaska Zoo polling place on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. (Katie Anastas/Alaska Public Media) Alaska held its first ranked choice general election on Tuesday, Nov. 8. The ranked choice tabulation happened on Wednesday, Nov. 23. The vote tallies below include the tabulation for the U.S. House and U.S. Senate. Gov. Mike Dunleavy…

A Yute Commuter Service Cessna 207 lost power and landed on the tundra four miles south of Napaskiak on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022. All of the passengers were unhurt and were picked up by another Yute plane which landed on a nearby lake. (Courtesy photo) Alaska State Troopers report that no one was injured in…

Rotary Beach south of Saxman is also called Bugge’s Beach. A federal grant will support Ketchikan Indian Community’s efforts to test waters at beaches like this for bacteria as the climate warms. (KRBD file photo) 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…

Homer’s Library Advisory Board listened to testimony on over 50 contested children’s books on Nov. 15, 2022. (Desiree Hagen/KBBI) A standing room-only crowd of more than 100 people packed into Homer’s City Hall last week for a marathon meeting of the Library Advisory Board. Around six dozen people gave public testimony clocking the meeting at…