Alaska news

• Alaska's Prized Copper River Salmon Hit Seattle Restaurants - Eater Seattle

  31-05-2016 20:34
  
  Eater Seattle
  Alaska's Prized Copper River Salmon Hit Seattle Restaurants
  Eater Seattle
  An Alaska Airlines pilot delivers the first of the season's Copper River salmon to Seattle. Don't miss stories. Follow Eater Seattle. Follow. ×. The first fish landed in Seattle two weeks ago. Every year, the start of the salmon fishing season on ...and more »
  
  Read more

• Real winners in pot bonanza? Security companies

  31-05-2016 20:24
  
   
  Evan Levinton, left, looks over security forms with his business partner, Jane Stinson, right, and their contractor, Thomas Craig. Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public MediaAs marijuana companies get closer to opening their doors, a cluster of industries is seeing a surge in business. But it isn’t growers, producers, or retailers.
  Instead, it’s the support services helping new pot companies navigate complex regulations. Many of whom never touch the actual products.
  For
  
  Read more

• Alaska lawmakers announce a budget compromise. But will the governor sign it? - Alaska Dispatch News

  31-05-2016 19:10
  
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Alaska lawmakers announce a budget compromise. But will the governor sign it?
  Alaska Dispatch News
  The Alaska Legislature approved a bipartisan budget deal Tuesday, sending Gov. Bill Walker a compromise that reverses proposed cuts to schools and the university system and averts the Wednesday mailing of layoff warnings to state employees. But the ...
  Alaska Legislature passes 11th-hour state budgetKTVA.com - Alaska News and Weather
  Alaska Legislature passes compromise s
  
  Read more

• House and Senate negotiators complete budget proposal

  31-05-2016 18:17
  
  Committee aide Marta Lastufka preps a room in the Bill Ray Center for the operating budget conference committee, May 18, 2016. (Photo by Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO)Late on Memorial Day, House and Senate negotiators completed their conference committee work on a proposed state operating budget. They were 26 hours ahead of a still looming deadline.
  Now, to avoid a second year of mass layoff notices to state workers and another government shutdown scare, the pressure is on lawmakers to take the negotiated d
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Endangered whale found dead on bow of cruise ship entering Alaska port - CBS News

  31-05-2016 03:32
  
  CBS News
  Endangered whale found dead on bow of cruise ship entering Alaska port
  CBS News
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A veterinary pathologist worked Monday to determine what killed a juvenile fin whale discovered on the bow of a cruise ship entering an Alaska port. The cause of death was not immediately apparent for the endangered whale spotted ...
  Dead whale found on bow of cruise ship in Alaska portWTSP.com
  Endangered fin whale found dead on bow of cruise ship entering Alaska portDaily Mailall
  
  Read more

• Alaska News Nightly: Monday, May 30, 2016

  31-05-2016 02:59
  
  
  Stories are posted on the APRN news page. You can subscribe to APRN’s newsfeeds via email, podcast and RSS. Follow us on Facebook at alaskapublic.org and on Twitter @aprn
  Download Audio
  USCGC Storis – (File Photo Courtesy of US Coast Guard)Medfra Fire grows to 1,650 acres; firefighters battling winds
  Josh Edge and Lori Townsend, Alaska Public Media-AnchorageCrews are battling a large blaze about 50 miles southeast of McGrath, dub
  
  Read more

• Alaska to consider privatizing youth detention centers - KTUU.com

  31-05-2016 00:39
  
  Alaska to consider privatizing youth detention centers
  KTUU.com
  KENAI, Alaska The state is seeking contractors to look into the feasibility of privatizing four of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services' juvenile detention facilities. The Peninsula Clarion reports that the department is considering ...and more »
  
  Read more

• Anchorage welcomes its first cruise ship of the season - Alaska Dispatch News

  31-05-2016 00:32
  Anchorage welcomes its first cruise ship of the season
  Alaska Dispatch News
  The Holland America cruise ship MS Maasdam comes into the Port of Anchorage on Monday, May 30, 2016. The Maasdam is the first cruise ship to visit Anchorage this year, and will make a total of 9 visits this summer. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch News).
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Alaska's immigration story is a model for America's path forward - Alaska Dispatch News

  31-05-2016 00:32
  Alaska's immigration story is a model for America's path forward
  Alaska Dispatch News
  An 8-year-old girl planted flax seeds in Austria to grow fiber to make a cover for her future marriage bed. As she grew she learned to spin, weave and embroider, she did marry, and she carried her masterpiece to America. Today it is displayed at Ellis ...
  
  Read more

• Park Service reminds tourists why Mendenhall glacier is shrinking

  31-05-2016 00:20
  On a busy summer day, thousands of people — mostly cruise ship passengers — visit Juneau’s Mendenhall glacier. The U.S. Forest Service wants those tourists to take in the dramatic views, but also consider why the glacier is shrinking. Visitor center director John Neary is making it his personal mission.
  
  Read more

• Forest Service reminds tourists why Mendenhall glacier is shrinking

  31-05-2016 00:20
  
  
  Download Audio
  In a wing of the Mendenhall Glacier Visitors Center a small crowd of onlookers is watching a debate between a man and an employee. The tourist is wearing a floppy hat and red shirt. And he’s leaning on a silver tipped cane as he listens — waiting for a chance to respond.
  Kat Pratt is a ranger and interpreter.
  She was delivering talking points on sea level rise when the man — who didn’t want to give his name — challenged her. He thinks rising temperatu
  
  Read more

• Czech climber dies while skiing on Denali

  31-05-2016 00:16
  A mountaineer from the Czech Republic is dead after an estimated 1,500-foot fall on Denali Mountain.
  The National Park Service reports 45-year-old Pavel Michut was skiing Messner Couloir when he fell Saturday.
  Nearby climbers found his body within 10 minutes.
  A park service statement says hard-packed snow conditions had developed in the area because of days of extreme wind.
  The body will be flown to the Alaska State Medical Examiner once the weather is safe.
  
  Read more

• 'Just a matter of time' before Zika arrives in Alaska, officials say - Alaska Dispatch News

  31-05-2016 00:11
  'Just a matter of time' before Zika arrives in Alaska, officials say
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Biologist Manuel Amador holds a plastic container with Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that are part of CDC scientists' research in Puerto Rico to stop the Zika virus. (Allison Shelley / The Washington Post). WASHINGTON — Alaska remains one of just six ...and more »
  
  Read more

• 'Just a matter of time' before a traveler brings Zika to Alaska, officials say - Alaska Dispatch News

  31-05-2016 00:11
  
  'Just a matter of time' before a traveler brings Zika to Alaska, officials say
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Biologist Manuel Amador holds a plastic container with Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that are part of CDC scientists' research in Puerto Rico to stop the Zika virus. (Allison Shelley / The Washington Post). WASHINGTON — Alaska remains one of just six ...and more »
  
  Read more

• First Alaska ibis sighting has birders going ‘ballistic’

  31-05-2016 00:00
  
  An unusual bird was spotted in two separate Southeast towns on the same day last week. The ibises were a rare treat that has left bird experts scratching their heads, wondering why these southern birds have landed in Alaska.
  A white-faced ibis. (Courtesy of Flickr creative commons user docentjoyce)Words like ‘flabbergasted’ and ‘astonishing’ came up when birders described hearing about the Ibis sightings last week. The large long-legged, wading bird is not native to Alask
  
  Read more

Follow @News_Alaska on Twitter!