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Goose Creek Prison. (Ellen Lockyer/KSKA) A 15th person has died in Alaska Department of Corrections custody this year. William Ben Hensley III, 34, was pronounced dead Sunday at Goose Creek Correctional Center. He had been in Corrections custody for one month. No foul play is suspected, according to the department. A cause of death was…

Updated October 3, 2022 at 9:05 PM ET A man watches a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on October 4, 2022. – North Korea fired a mid-range ballistic missile on October 4, which flew over Japan, Seoul and Tokyo…

Nearly 90 of the 100 boats people use for hunting and fishing out of Chevak were damaged or destroyed after a powerful storm hit Alaska’s west coast in September 2022. Nearly all of the sheds that store the tools for subsistence harvest in the community were also destroyed. (Emily Schwing for Alaska Public Media &…

Michael Herzog on his way to drop off students on Aug. 30, 2022. (Mizelle Mayo/Alaska Public Media) Students in the Anchorage School District will have bus service on a rotating basis until further notice, the district told parents Friday. The district is currently 56 drivers short. District leaders had previously hoped to end its rotating…

Rev. Walter Soboleff preparing to go on the radio. (Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society) This summer, the national branch of the Presbyterian Church issued a formal apology and committed to pay $1 million in reparations for closing a church in Juneau in the 1960s.  The Memorial Presbyterian Church had a Native congregation led…

Notices of campsite closure have been posted around the Centennial Campground in Anchorage for two weeks. (Elyssa Loughlin/Alaska Public Media) More than 200 homeless residents must leave Anchorage’s Centennial Campground on Saturday. City officials are closing the area for the winter. And they now say they’ll transport campers back to the Sullivan Arena — the…

Jessie Holmes races into Unalakleet on Sunday, March 13, 2022. (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media) A reality television star and Iditarod musher was injured this week while helping clean up storm damage along Alaska’s western coast. Jessie Holmes, who since 2015 has starred in “Life Below Zero,” a show about life in rural Alaska produced by…

Flooding in Newtok on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. (Lucinta Ivon) 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: Storm damage in Newtok increases the pressure for residents to relocate.…

An image of a wolf dragging a sea otter carcass is captured on an Alaska Department of Fish and Game game camera. Southeast Alaska’s wolves tend to favor deer and moose at mealtime, but in a pinch they won’t say no to black bear – or even sea otter. A study – now in its…

Notices of campsite closure have been posted around the Centennial Campground in Anchorage for two weeks, but many campers say they don’t know where they will go once the water and electricity is set to be shut off this Saturday. (Elyssa Loughlin/Alaska Public Media) Updated, 4 p.m. Thursday: The city is preparing to move homeless…

Juneau Emergency Programs Manager Tom Mattice assesses landslide damage on Gastineau Avenue on Sept. 27, 2022. (Photo by Paige Sparks/KTOO) A man whose home was destroyed by a landslide this week in Juneau said the outcome could have been worse had he not picked up an extra shift at work. “Fortunately, I wasn’t at home…

Gryffin Husleton stands outside the tent he shares with his cousin in Centennial Park campground in Anchorage. Husleton says they moved to Centennial after losing their apartment three months ago, but he has plans to move into more permanent housing through Catholic Social Services. (Elyssa Loughlin/ Alaska Public Media) Stories are posted on the statewide news page.…

(Getty Images) Because of a federal court decision last year, the state’s failure to appeal that decision, and the Alaska Legislature’s failure to approve a new law, candidates for Alaska state Legislature and governor can accept unlimited amounts of money from individual donors. Those donations may be unlimited, but each must be disclosed and published as public information. Donations to…

Fairweather’s clinic at Tikahtnu Commons in Anchorage now offers the bivalent COVID booster. A sign outside the clinic advertises COVID vaccines on Sept. 29, 2022. (Katie Anastas/Alaska Public Media) The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services sent out its last COVID-19 data summary on Wednesday via email and social media. It marks a shift…

Delegates to Alaska’s 1955 constitutional convention, which produced the document under which Alaska achieved statehood. (Courtesy Anchorage Museum of Art and History) For three months during the winter of 1955 and 1956, 55 delegates from around Alaska met at the University of Alaska Fairbanks to create the state’s founding document.  One of them was Vic…

The next morning, Juneau residents Jean Findley and Bret Schmiege look at the damage from a Sept. 26 landslide on Gastineau Avenue in Juneau. (Paige Sparks/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.…

Retired Alaska State Trooper Lonny Piscoya, a 25-year veteran of the force, started Sept. 19, 2022 as the state’s new coordinator for solving cases involving missing and murdered Indigenous people. (From AST) A former Alaska State Trooper has been named as the state’s new lead on solving cases involving missing and murdered Indigenous people. State…