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Once a decade, Alaskans vote on whether to hold a Constitutional Convention to change to state’s founding document. (Valerie Kern/Alaska Public Media) Alaskans have voted by a wide margin not to hold a constitutional convention, which, among other things, could’ve led to changes to abortion rights. That’s because in Alaska, there’s a constitutional right to…

The Napakiak Water Treatment Plant and well is only 140 feet from the rapidly eroding Kuskokwim River shoreline. (Katie Basile/KYUK) The U.S. Department of Agriculture is granting $3.6 million to Interior Alaska villages to help improve water systems and landfills.  The grants will pay for new well and wastewater treatment systems for homes in Rampart…

Lt. Steve Adams with the Alaska State Troopers shows how to use Narcan at a training in Anchorage on Aug. 18, 2017. (Zachariah Hughes/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. Wednesday on…

Jayson Vinberg (center) with his son Duncan (left), and father, Tony Furio, in 2019. (Photo courtesy Esther and Tony Furio) The family of a man killed by a guard on a military base in Kodiak is still looking for answers more than two years after his death. The Navy SEALs have a video of the shooting, but…

The late Dr. Alan Boraas (left), professor of anthropology at Kenai Peninsula College, leads a tour of the Kalifornsky Graveyard in 2015. (Jenny Neyman/The Redoubt Reporter) The Kenaitze Indian Tribe will receive $230,000 in federal funds to look into stabilizing an ancestral gravesite on the Kenai Peninsula against the threat of bluff erosion. The project…

Alaska Environmental Power’s wind farm near Delta Junction produces about 2 megawatts with its two 900-kilowatt and one 100-kilowatt wind generators. (KUAC 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 @AKPublicNews. And subscribe to the Alaska News Nightly podcast. Tuesday on…

Kelly Tshibaka thanks her supporters at her election night party in Anchorage. (Elyssa Loughlin/Alaska Public Media) U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is now neck-and-neck with Republican challenger Kelly Tshibaka in the vote count update Tuesday from the Alaska Division of Elections.  U.S. House Rep. Democrat Mary Peltola is still far ahead of Republican rival Sarah Palin.…

Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy during the Alaska Federation of Natives candidate forum in Anchorage. (Elyssa Loughlin/Alaska Public Media) Incumbent Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy is holding on to his sizeable lead in Alaska’s governor race. The Division of Elections added an additional 27,000 ballots to the tally Tuesday. Dunleavy’s share dropped one point from 52.1% to…

Unalaska’s runway from the side of Mount Ballyhoo. ( Berett Wilber/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. Monday on Alaska News Nightly: Alaska State Troopers say they’ve seized a record amount of…

Lemon Creek Correctional Center in Juneau. According to the Sitka Police Department, Wade was transported to the Lemon Creek Correctional Center after his arrest in 2017. (Lisa Phu/KTOO) A 51-year-old man became the 17th person to die in Alaska Department of Corrections custody this year. Khari Wade died on Friday morning at the Mat-Su Regional…

Alzheimer’s by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images Alzheimer’s Disease is now the 6th leading cause of death in the UnitedStates and with our aging population, the numbers are growing. It isestimated that 1 in 9 people over the age of 65 are living with Alzheimer’sDementia. This brain disorder is characterized by a…

An outdoor seismology set-up for an experiment near Lake Michigan. (Luke Zoet/Courtesy Eva Golos) Researchers are looking for homes for seismometers that will help them learn more about the earth underneath the Kenai Peninsula. Eva Golos is an assistant professor with the Department of Geoscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where there are very few…

Public health officials say rainbow fentanyl, like the pills seen here, have been seen in Kodiak and are contributing to overdoses. (U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration) A couple driving from Seward to Nikiski were arrested in Moose Pass last Friday after an Alaska State Trooper discovered over 150 fentanyl pills and other narcotics in their car.…

CITC runs youth berry picking outings as part of their addiction prevention services. (Photo courtesy of CITC) This summer, Cook Inlet Tribal Council took young people out berry picking as part of their addiction prevention programming.  CITC is a tribal nonprofit that calls itself a “culturally-responsive social service organization.” Dr. Angela Michaud is CITC’s senior…

Kelly Tshibaka speaks to reporters during her election night party in Anchorage. (Elyssa Loughlin/Alaska Public Media) Republican congressional candidates Sarah Palin and Kelly Tshibaka are likely to lose their races once the Division of Elections tabulates the ranked choices of Alaska voters, but both candidates are making vague accusations of malfeasance and speaking of unspecified…

Voters gather at the Lynn Canal polling location, Auke Bay Ferry Terminal, in Juneau on Tuesday. (Paige Sparks/KTOO) Alaska held its first ranked choice general election on Tuesday. We won’t know the final results yet. But the state Division of Elections started releasing batches of results Tuesday night. The count so far includes just first-place…

Kelly Tshibaka speaks to reporters during her election night party in Anchorage. (Elyssa Loughlin/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 News Nightly podcast. Friday on Alaska News Nightly: Congressional candidates Kelly Tshibaka and…

Robin Gabel’s daughter is in kindergarten at Birchwood ABC Elementary. Gabel says, if she’s not confident the ABC program will be successful at Homestead Elementary, she may move her daughter to private school or homeschool. (Elyssa Loughlin/AKPM) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, and comments to news@alaskapublic.org. Follow Alaska Public Media…

Dean Cummings mugshot (Sandoval County, New Mexico) A New Mexico jury found Alaska heli-skiing pioneer Dean Cummings not guilty of murder this week in a 2020 shooting in which Cummings claimed self-defense. Cummings, the former World Extreme Skiing Champion behind the now-defunct Valdez-based H2O Guides, walked out of jail a short time after the verdict…