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Charlie Pierce, a Republican candidate for governor, at the Governor’s Debate on Resource Development on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) Independent Bill Walker and Democrat Les Gara have called on their fellow gubernatorial candidate, Republican Charlie Pierce, to drop out of the race for governor, following a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against…

Superintendent Jim Wilson presented a budget update to the Unalaska school board on Oct. 19 that includes a $535,000 anticipated deficit. (Maggie Nelson/KUCB) Like many school districts across Alaska, spikes in energy costs have Unalaska City schools looking at a major budget deficit. In combination with flatlined state funding, enrollment drops and increased teacher salaries,…

Parts of the Tongass National Forest seen from Ketchikan’s Rainbird Trail. (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. Tuesday on Alaska News Nightly: Lieutenant governor candidate Edie Grunwald drops out of the…

Charlie Pierce is one of two Republicans running for Alaska governor. (Elyssa Loughlin/Alaska Public Media) The running mate of Republican governor candidate and former Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Charlie Pierce has dropped out of the race — four days after Pierce was sued by a former assistant for sexual harassment.  Edie Grunwald’s name will still…

Sophie Sergie (Photo courtesy of Alaska State Troopers) A Maine man who was convicted of killing and sexually assaulting a woman in Alaska in 1993 is appealing his convictions and sentences. Steven H. Downs, 48, filed a notice of his appeal Monday with the Alaska Court of Appeals, the Sun Journal newspaper reported. A jury in…

Charlie Pierce, a Republican candidate for governor, at the Governor’s Debate on Resource Development on Tuesday, October 11, 2022. (Matt Faubion/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. Monday on Alaska…

Jo Schoeppe helps voters verify their ballots through the Ballot Cyon Machine at Mendenhall Library on Aug. 16, 2022 in Juneau. (Photo By Paige Sparks/KTOO) Early and absentee voting for this year’s midterm elections started Monday at city halls, community centers, churches and election offices all over Alaska. Voters will rank their favorite candidates for governor,…

Bingo Manager Cyla Garcia at the Filipino Community Hall in Juneau on Oct. 6, 2022. (Photo by Ian Dickson/KTOO) The pandemic disrupted a lot of the community activities Juneau residents used to take for granted, but many of them are slowly returning.  Just last month, regular bingo nights started up again at the Filipino Community…

Alaska gubernatorial candidate Charlie Pierce, former mayor of the Kenai Peninsula Borough, at a debate in the Egan Center in Anchorage on Oct. 11. (Bill Roth/ADN) In a lawsuit filed Friday, a former executive assistant to Alaska gubernatorial candidate Charlie Pierce said Pierce sexually harassed her when he was Kenai Peninsula Borough mayor. The complaint,…

Donald Charlie of Nenana is a former musher and former chief of the Nenana Native Village Council, where he first pitched the idea for a resolution calling for the federal authorities to recognize veterinary services as health care. (Jeremy Hsieh/Alaska Public Media) The Alaska Federation of Natives wants federal officials to recognize that a lack…

The Alaska Native Heritage Dancers perform for the first Quyana Night in three years at the 2022 AFN conference, at the Dena’ina Center, in Anchorage, Alaska on October 20, 2022. (Elyssa Loughlin/Alaska Public Media) Quyana is the Yup’ik word for “thank you,” but it takes on a whole new meaning during the Alaska Federation of…

Republican U.S. Senate candidates, incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Kelly Tshibaka, at the Alaska Federation of Natives candidate forum on Saturday. (Elyssa Loughlin/Alaska Public Media) With Russian President Vladimir Putin at war with the West in Ukraine, the need to protect Arctic Alaska from foreign aggression was an area of agreement on Saturday among Alaska’s…

Gary Galbraith’s first-place winning wood pile. (Photo courtesy Of Sandra Holsten) People who live in Cooper Landing and Moose Pass take a little extra care when they stockpile their firewood for the winter — because they know they’re going to be judged. At this year’s fifth annual Cooper Landing Woodpile Contest, competitors in both Kenai…

U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola meets with supporters at the 2022 Alaska Federation of Natives conference on Saturday at the Dena’ina Center in Anchorage. (Elyssa Loughlin/Alaska Public Media) Former Gov. Sarah Palin, one of two Republicans trying to unseat Congresswoman Mary Peltola, said this is the toughest campaign she’s ever fought. “Because of her – Mary,”…

The old Fairbanks city bus made famous by “Into the Wild” has become one the Stampede’s favorite attractions. (Credit Friends of the Stampede) 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…

Trauma is defined as an event or a series of events that threatens physical injury or death andcauses feelings of extreme terror and helplessness. About 20% of people who experiencetrauma will develop PTSD. It is as if the traumatic event gets locked in place, as if it is stillhappening. Feelings of panic and fear, hypervigilance,…

Once a decade, Alaskans must vote on whether to hold a Constitutional Convention to change to state’s founding document. (Valerie Kern/Alaska Public Media) This year, Alaskans are deciding whether or not to hold another constitutional convention, but how do you decide if you want to change the constitution if you don’t understand the current one?…

More than 100 people rallied in support of climate and environmental action in Anchorage’s Town Square Park, blocks away from the Dena’ina Center, where the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention was held. (Wesley Early/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…

This week on State of Art we’re hearing from James Bartlett, author of true-crime book “The Alaskan Blonde: Sex, Secrets, and the Hollywood Story that Shocked America.” The book examines the murder of wealthy Fairbanks businessman Cecil Wells on October 17, 1953. We’ll also hear from the conductor and stage director/choreographer from Anchorage Opera’s production…

Congresswoman Mary Peltola addresses the AFN convention on Thursday wearing the bolo tie gifted to her by the daughters of late Congressman Don Young. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media) U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola took the stage at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention in Anchorage Thursday pitching herself as a regular Alaskan who happens to be…

Twenty-seven classes from 15 schools in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District attended the two-day event on the Anchor River and Bear Creek. (Courtesy Eric Hart/Chapman Elementary School) 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…

Bartlett Regional Hospital, pictured here on Dec. 1, 2018, is located at 3260 Hospital Drive in Juneau. (Photo by Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO) Bartlett Regional Hospital will close its COVID-19 monoclonal antibody therapy clinic on Oct. 24.  The clinic offered treatments to help prevent serious illness in newly infected, high-risk COVID-19 patients. In a press release, the…