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480 Otis is seen wading in the water at Katmai National Park. (L. Law/NPS) 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: Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Kelly Tshibaka say…

Dr. Ellen Hodges tests a Bethel resident at a COVID-19 testing event hosted by the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation in Bethel, Alaska on Nov. 7, 2020. (Katie Basile/KYUK) What has been learned, or not, from the global pandemic that for more than two years drove medical facilities to the breaking point and killed more than a…

Bear 435 Holly is photographed at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. (E. Johnston/NPS) Fat Bear Week was rocked by scandal over the weekend after organizers in Alaska uncovered voting irregularities that were meant to skew the results of a pivotal semifinal. A new champion is poised to be crowned on Tuesday, the competition’s…

Snowfall in Anchorage on Monday, Oct. 10, 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 News Nightly: Activists and family members of inmates who’ve died jailed…

A James Brown impersonator led a conga line at a sparsely attended rally Sunday, sponsored by a political action committee. About 100 people were in the room when Sarah Palin took the stage. (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media) The Republicans in Alaska’s U.S. House race are now both saying they want their supporters to rank the…

A graphic from the National Weather Service shows a wind storm moving across Northwest Alaska. (National Weather Service) A fall storm has brought high winds and coastal flooding to Northwest Alaska, less than three months after the region was battered by the remnants of a typhoon.  National Weather Service meteorologist Bobby Bianco said the latest storm…

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the federal government’s response to Hurricane Ian in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on September 30, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) President Biden on Thursday announced that he is taking executive action to pardon people convicted of simple marijuana possession under federal…

U.S. Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka during a campaign stop in Bethel on Oct. 6. (Gabby Salgado/KYUK) U.S. Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka stopped in Bethel Thursday as part of her campaign vying for Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s seat. Tshibaka said that the jurisdiction of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council is too broad. That federal council currently…

Kathryn Earhart teaches third and fourth grade at Aurora Elementary School on Aug. 18, 2022. She’s one of several teachers who moved from Ursa Major Elementary School to Aurora this fall, after the district closed Ursa Major because of earthquake safety concerns. (Katie Anastas/Alaska Public Media) Over the last ten years, enrollment in the Anchorage…

Legal marijuana products are seen on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022, in Juneau, Alaska. Eight years after Alaskan voted to legalize recreational marijuana, the state of Alaska has no one in prison for simple marijuana possession. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) The state of Alaska, which voted to legalize recreational marijuana use in 2014, has no one…

A federal council voted to close a large swath of Cook Inlet to commercial salmon fishing in 2020. That decision was overturned earlier this year. (Sabine Poux/KDLL) Federal fisheries managers say they’ve started working on a new management plan for the Cook Inlet salmon fishery, months after a court said their plan to completely close…

U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Thomas D’Arcy aboard his command, the cutter Kimball, during an Unalaska port call. The Kimball encountered several Chinese and Russian warships off Alaska in late September. (Maggie Nelson/KUCB) The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Kimball calls Honolulu home, but recently it’s seen a lot of action in the Aleutians. Just last month…

Big smile from a voter at Bethel Precinct Two. (Photo by Katie Basile, KYUK – Bethel) It’s not enough to know who or what you want to vote for, you also need to know how and where to cast your ballot. Here are the details to make sure you can have your voice heard this…

Set netters in Naknek. July 11, 2019. (Photo by Sage Smiley/KDLG) This summer 79 million sockeye salmon returned to Bristol Bay, the largest run on record. But over the past half-century, there has been a dramatic shift in who fishes commercially in Bristol Bay. Local permit ownership has declined sharply, and research shows that’s due…

Jan Bronson of Anchorage and Cathy Walling of Fairbanks, representing the Alaska Friends Conference, apologize to Alaska Native communities for the boarding schools it ran in Alaska and the United States. The apology took place at Sayéik Gastineau elementary school in Juneau, the former site of a Quaker mission school, during Orange Shirt Day on…

(Stephanie Carter/Getty Images/Imagezoo) We regularly answer frequently asked questions about life during the coronavirus crisis. If you have a question you’d like us to consider for a future post, email us at goatsandsoda@npr.org with the subject line: “Weekly Coronavirus Questions.” See an archive of our FAQs here. A few weeks ago, my friend Ashley was…

A voter fills out a ballot inside Assembly chambers at City Hall on Oct. 4, 2022 in Juneau, Alaska. (Photo by Tasha Elizarde/KTOO) The results of two ballot measures in Juneau’s Oct. 4 municipal election are too close to call as of Tuesday night.   Five candidates were unopposed on the ballot, with vote tallies still…

Democrat Les Gara and independent Bill Walker are two progressives in the 2022 race for Alaska governor. (Mizelle Mayo and Valerie Kern/Alaska Public Media) Kodiak’s fisheries debates kicked off Monday night with two challengers in the governor’s race, Les Gara and Bill Walker. The need for more science to manage Alaska’s fisheries came up early…