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A display at the Ketchikan Public Library celebrating Pride Month. (Eric Stone/KRBD) The author of a ballot proposition that would remove borough funding for Ketchikan’s library says he doubts the measure will pass this October. Former Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly member John Harrington says he filed the initiative petition this summer on behalf of a…

The boardwalk to high ground in Hooper Bay was wiped away by floodwaters. (Will McCarthy/KYUK) 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: State and federal officials visit Nome…

The outside of the Anchorage School District Board Room at the Education Center in Anchorage, taken March 13, 2020. (Mayowa Aina/Alaska Public Media) The Anchorage School Board outlined its projected budget shortfall for the Anchorage Assembly on Friday. “The district is facing a budget shortfall of approximately $68 million going into the next fiscal year,”…

This illustration shows the DART spacecraft approaching the two asteroids, Didymos and Dimorphos, with a small observing spacecraft nearby. (NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben) Nuclear bombs. That’s the go-to answer for incoming space objects like asteroids and comets, as far as Hollywood is concerned. Movies like Deep Impact and Armageddon rely on nukes, delivered by stars…

Members of the public have until 5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, to comment on how a large portion of Alaska’s settlement money should be used to help Alaskans recover from opioid abuse and addiction. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) Alaskans have a chance through the end of September to weigh in on how…

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. Nearly all of the sheds that store the tools for subsistence harvest in the community were also destroyed. (Emily Schwing for Alaska Public Media & KYUK)…

The Swans place boulders on the bank in front of a house in Kivalina on Saturday, Sept. 17 to prevent further erosion. (Courtesy Janet Mitchell) While a storm battered the Bering Sea coast over the weekend, communities farther north along the Chukchi Sea were mostly spared from serious damage. In the village of Kivalina, about…

The former Guest House Inn sits at the corner of Fifth Ave. and Cordova St. in Anchorage. It’s been remodeled to serve as low-income housing for formerly homeless people. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media) The ink is dry on the purchase of an old Anchorage hotel that’s been converted into a workforce housing complex. With more…

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 &…

The area around Kaxdigoowu Héen Dei, also called the Brotherhood Bridge Trail, on Sept. 23, 2022. The body of Juneau resident Faith Rogers was found about 200 yards from the trailhead on Sept. 21. (Photo by Paige Sparks/KTOO) A Juneau woman was found dead on a popular Mendenhall Valley trail on Wednesday. Police are investigating…

Stella Lake and Michael Cholok discuss damage to Lake’s boat after it was flooded and submerged in the Chevak River for three days. (Emily Schwing for Alaska Public Media and KYUK) It’s the middle of moose hunting season on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, and a handful of Chevak residents were preparing to head out for a…

Boats and other gear used in subsistence fishing and hunting lie damaged or destroyed along Chevak’s coastline after the village was hit by remnants of Typhoon Merbok. (Emily Schwing/Special to 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…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A 9-year-old boy was seriously injured by a brown bear while hunting north of Anchorage, Alaska State Troopers said Wednesday. The youth and a 41-year-old man were hunting Tuesday night in the Palmer Hay Flats area about 35 miles (56 kilometers) from the state’s largest city when they came upon the…

Syringes for the COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic in East Anchorage on Aug. 3, 2021. (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media) State health officials are encouraging Alaskans to get updated COVID boosters and flu shots ahead of flu season. The new bivalent booster – which increases protection against both the omicron variant and the original coronavirus –…

The Safety Sound bridge near Mile 22 on the Nome-Council road on Sept. 19, 2022, after residents were able to assess storm damage. (Courtesy Mandy Ellanna) 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.…

The Sullivan Arena shelter had housed more than 300 people for most of the past two years. It closed on June 30. (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media) Anchorage’s Sullivan Arena may once again become a homeless shelter. During an Assembly Housing and Homelessness committee meeting on Wednesday, Assembly members worked through a plan to house roughly…

Supporters of the Alaskans Choose Respect campaign listen to speakers during a rally at the state Capitol, March 27, 2014 — when the rate of women killed by men in Alaska was slightly lower than it was in 2020. (Photo by Skip Gray/Gavel Alaska) Alaska has the highest homicide rate in the nation for women…

Roughly 200 people gathered at rush hour Tuesday night in midtown Anchorage to rally for the protection of reproductive rights. (Jeff Chen/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. Tuesday on…

Fentanyl pills. (Photo courtesy North Bay Police Service.) Law enforcement in Kodiak seized more than $650,000 worth of fentanyl, meth and heroin this weekend. The bust was part of a major investigation into drug trafficking on the island. Alaska State Troopers say 11,457 blue fentanyl pills were seized Friday – nearly two pills for every person living…

Subsistence foods are an essential part of life for the Unangax̂ community, who have been harvesting from land and sea for thousands of years. (Kanesia McGlashan-Price/KUCB) Unalaska is most widely known for being a fishing port — the largest in the nation. Hundreds of millions of pounds of seafood are delivered to Unalaska’s processing plants…