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Children grab for goodies attached to a pabitin at Ketchikan’s Fil-Am Festival on Oct. 15. (Eric Stone/KRBD) Community members in Ketchikan came together last weekend to celebrate Filipino American History Month at the second annual Fil-Am Festival. The event recognizes the contributions and history of Filipino Americans in Ketchikan and around the country. Ten-year-old Zofia…

Dancers from Sand Point perform at the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022. (Rhonda McBride/KNBA) 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: Anchorage…

The Anchorage School District Education Center street sign. (Mayowa Aina/Alaska Public Media) Anchorage School District leaders are recommending that six elementary schools close next year in an effort to reduce a $68 million budget gap. Those schools are Abbott Loop, Birchwood, Klatt, Nunaka Valley, Northwood and Wonder Park Elementary. At a work session on Tuesday,…

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) Dozens of students oohed and aahed on a cold morning in Anchor Point as biologists spawned a pair of coho salmon and fertilized their eggs. It was…

Youth keynote speaker Christianna Edwards receives a pair of beaded earrings from First Alaskans Institute indigenous innovations manager Gloria Wolfe. (Katie Anastas/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…

North Star Residential Treatment Center on DeBarr Road in Anchorage on Oct. 17, 2022. (Casey Grove/Alaska Public Media) One of Alaska’s only providers of psychiatric treatment for children is under increased scrutiny after reports of patients escaping a hospital, write-ups by federal regulators for various “deficiencies” and lawsuits alleging patients were sexually abused. North Star…

A US Coast Guard HH60 Jayhawk helicopter flies over Juneau, Alaska, on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021. (Mikko Wilson/KTOO) Rescue crews were attempting Monday to reach a plane that crashed Sunday afternoon in mountains near Cordova. The crash left the pilot dead, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. Coast Guard spokesman Petty Officer 1st Class Nate…

Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s Chief of Staff Ben Stevens talks to Senate Majority Leader Lyman Hoffman, D-Bethel, after Dunleavy’s State of the State address on Monday, January 27, 2020 in Juneau, Alaska. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/KTOO) Ben Stevens, a former Alaska Senate president once linked to, but never charged, in the Veco corruption scandal, has died…

The Coast Guard icebreaker Healy breaks ice in the Nome Harbor on Jan. 13, 2012. (Photo: U.S. Coast Guard) The federal government rolled out a new Arctic strategy this month, a move welcomed by the Alaska congressional delegation. But it’s unclear what it means for residents back in Alaska. “It’s much more a list of…

Updated October 14, 2022 at 2:42 PM ET Part of a nearly century-old mural at George Washington High School in San Francisco. (Courtesy Town Destroyer) A mural in George Washington High School in San Francisco has been the subject of a bitter dispute. It includes the life-size image of a dead Native American, as well…

U.S. House candidate Sarah Palin’s campaign headquarters in South Anchorage on Aug. 31, 2022. (Chris Klint/Alaska Public Media) We often judge political campaigns by the money they raise and the image they project in their ads. We thought up another measure: What’s the ambience at their campaign headquarters? Channeling Architectural Digest, we went to check…

(Elyssa Loughlin/KYUK) Alaska State Troopers are investigating new information in one of four cases of Alaska Native people who were reported missing in the Fairbanks area during 2020. Troopers Capt. Eric Spitzer, commander of AST’s Interior Alaska detachment, mentioned the break during a Thursday meeting held by the Fairbanks Native Association and the Tanana Chiefs…

Moderator, Lori Townsend, is joined by reporters from Alaska Public Media, ADN, and Alaska Beacon to hear from both sides of the Constitutional Convention Ballot Question during a live debate hosted at the Wendy Williamson Auditorium on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. Every 10 years, Alaskans vote on whether or not to hold a constitutional convention.…

Debris left from the September 2022 landslide and treefall on Gastineau Avenue after the city cleared the street. (Photo by Claire Stremple/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 Alaska News Nightly podcast. Friday on Alaska News…

The area where the city plans to build a 29,000-square-foot navigation center for homeless adults. Officials say the shelter will sit on the parking lot on the far (west) end of the Anchorage Police Department impound lot, next to the old APD headquarters on Tudor and Elmore roads. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) Officials with Anchorage…

Trollers wait in Ketchikan’s Thomas Basin harbor on Oct. 8, 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. Thursday on Alaska News Nightly: What local leaders want to see from the…

Anchorage police are looking for 39-year-old Faith Rasmussen, last seen on Oct. 5, 2022 taking a walk from the 3600 block of Carleton Avenue near Turnagain Elementary School. (From APD) An Anchorage woman has been missing for a week from the city’s Turnagain neighborhood, as police and her family look for her. Faith Rasmussen was…

Anchorage bought the Golden Lion Hotel in December of 2020, with the intent of turning it into community substance abuse treatment center. That could still happen, though the Anchorage Assembly indicated Tuesday that it should become housing — as opposed to an emergency shelter — for people without homes. (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media) Hundreds of…

747, the 2022 Fat Bear Week champion. (L. Law/National Park Service) 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: Community members fundraise for an all-gender restroom at a Palmer…

Captive adult female brown bears in their exercise yard at Washington State University’s Bear Center in Pullman, Washington (Washington State University) Bears like the heavyweight contenders in Katmai National Park’s Fat Bear Week competition are clearly eating plenty of salmon. But bears are likely eating more berries than you would think. That’s according to research…

Alaska Public Media, in partnership with Alaska’s News Source and KTOO,  presents Debate for the State 2022. Lori Townsend, News Director for Alaska Public Media and Mike Ross from Alaska’s News Source will moderate the three live, televised events featuring candidates for the statewide races – Governor, U.S. House, and  U.S. Senate. These debates will…