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Clouds hang low in the air behind the Ketchikan Public Library on Wednesday, August 17, 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. Friday on Alaska News Nightly With thousands of…

Alaska State Trooper hat. (Alaska Public Media file photo) Two people were found dead in a vehicle on the Steese Highway Wednesday night, according to Alaska State Troopers, with their bodies recovered Friday after poor weather hindered initial efforts. Troopers spokesman Austin McDaniel said Friday that troopers and state Department of Transportation personnel had traveled…

The U.S. Supreme Court has thrust itself firmly in the middle of the 2024 presidential cycle. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether former President Donald Trump should be disqualified from the ballot in Colorado, thrusting the justices into the heart of the 2024 presidential campaign. The court will…

Anchorage attorney Scott Kendall specializes in election law. (Liz Ruskin/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. Thursday on Alaska News Nightly: Alaska’s campaign finance watchdog fines a pastor and his…

Art Mathias speaks at an Alaskans for Honest Elections event on Feb. 16, 2023, launching a signature drive to repeal Alaska’s new voting system (Elyssa Loughlin/Alaska Public Media) The Alaska Public Offices Commission has upheld complaints that Anchorage pastor Art Mathias and groups he founded violated multiple campaign laws in their efforts to overturn Alaska’s…

Washington homicide victim Lori Anne Razpotnik, seen in a photo posted by the King County Sheriff’s Office in December 2023. (From King County Sheriff’s Office) It was the kind of dumb argument every parent has with every teenager. Lori Anne Razpotnik, age 15, wanted a horse. A friend had one, all Lori had to do,…

The Alaska Capitol on Wednesday, June 2, 2021. (Nat Herz/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. Wednesday on Alaska News Nightly: Could the state take over Anchorage’s port? A bill…

The cement terminal at the Port of Alaska. (Courtesy of Port of Alaska) A proposal to rename the Port of Alaska the “Don Young Port of Anchorage” had seen little public controversy, until the Anchorage Assembly’s last meeting. That’s when the Anchorage Assembly found itself wrestling with a panel’s recommendation and a proposed compromise before…

A fuel filter containing thickened “No. 1” diesel heating fuel purchased from Vitus Energy is seen outside of a home in Bethel on Dec. 26, 2023. (Courtesy Jim Chaliak) After reports of widespread heating system issues related to gelling fuel in Bethel and multiple communities along the Kuskokwim River, Vitus Energy has offered few specifics…

Summer tourists in downtown Sitka (File/KCAW) 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: Alaska economists say there are twice as many job openings as unemployed people in the…

An exploration site at ConocoPhillips’ Willow prospect is seen from the air in the 2019 winter season. (Photo by Judy Patrick/provided by ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc.) State economists are predicting modest job growth in 2024 across Alaska in a new report released Tuesday by the state labor department. Officials anticipate Alaska employers will add some 5,400…

An Anchorage police vehicle (Valerie Lake/Alaska Public Media). An Anchorage man is charged with attempted murder after allegedly shooting his estranged wife multiple times while she was with another man in a vehicle parked at a popular lookout early Sunday. Court records show Isaiah N. Savok, 27, also faces charges of first- and third-degree assault…

Sealaska Heritage Institute’s new language games app. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO) Sealaska Heritage Institute released new language learning apps in X̱aad Kíl and Shm’algyack this month. The apps are the first of their kind and are meant to open doors for learning the endangered Indigenous languages.  Leah Urbanski with Sealaska Heritage Institute recently demonstrated a…

Attorney General Merrick Garland accompanied by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Anne Milgram, looks at photographs of people who had died from drugs during the Second Annual Family Summit on Fentanyl at DEA Headquarters in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) When the history of the fentanyl crisis is written, 2023 may…

Vance Peronto, 57, covered his face in Anchorage Jail Court on Monday, April 30, 2018. Peronto, an Alaska State Trooper, is charged with attempted sexual abuse of a minor. (Casey Grove/Alaska Public Media photo) A former Alaska State Trooper has been sentenced to eight years in prison with four years suspended, after being caught by…

Search efforts along the north fork of Eagle River were suspended Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023 for 45-year-old Amanda Richmond, who disappeared in the river as she tried to rescue her dog. (Courtesy Alaska Dive, Search, Rescue and Recovery Team Facebook page) Alaska State Troopers have suspended a four-day search for an Eagle River woman, last…

A screenshot of dashcam footage showing Kurt St. Jean’s Super Cub before it crashed along the Sterling Highway on Dec. 8, 2023. (From NTSB) The woman who was a passenger in a plane that crashed near Anchor Point earlier this month, killing the pilot, has died as federal investigators say one of the plane’s wings…

Donald Trump gives a speech for the Trump rally at the Alaska Airlines Center on Jul. 9 2022. (Kendrick Whiteman/Alaska Public Media) The top elections official in Maine on Thursday disqualified Donald Trump from that state’s primary ballot, due to his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In Anchorage, a…

The Anchorage Fire Department in downtown Anchorage. (Joey Mendolia/Alaska Public Media) Anchorage firefighters say five people at a Russian Jack home spent Christmas night in the hospital, after exposure to the potentially deadly gas carbon monoxide. Anchorage Fire Department spokeswoman Lexi Trainer said the call was reported on the 100 block of McCarrey Street at…

An Alaska State Trooper K-9 unit SUV. (Joey Mendolia/Alaska Public Media) An Anchorage driver has been accused of fatally striking a woman he was drinking with early Thursday near Big Lake, then trying to hide damage to his truck after he left her body behind. Alaska State Troopers say Billy Sheldon, 33, was arrested on…

Vance Peronto, 57, covered his face in Anchorage Jail Court on Monday, April 30, 2018. Peronto, an Alaska State Trooper, is charged with attempted sexual abuse of a minor. (Casey Grove/Alaska Public Media photo) 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.…