• Strange Video of 'Ice Monster' Recorded in Alaska - Voice of America

    Strange Video of 'Ice Monster' Recorded in Alaska - Voice of America
    Voice of America
    Strange Video of 'Ice Monster' Recorded in Alaska
    Voice of America
    A video posted by the Bureau of Land Management in Alaska had people wondering what they were seeing swimming in a river. Share. Share on Facebook · Share on Twitter · Share on В Контакте · Share on Google+ · Email to a Friend. Print. See comments ...
    Alaska 'ice monster' video: What is swimming in the Chena River?Christian Sc
  • Two Arrested in Georgia for Planning to Attack HAARP Facility in Alaska - ARRL

    Two Arrested in Georgia for Planning to Attack HAARP Facility in Alaska
    ARRL
    Authorities in Georgia recently arrested two men who said they were planning to attack the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project (HAARP) facility near Gakona, Alaska. Michael Vickers, a detective with the Coffee County Sheriff's Office, told ...and more »
  • Five questions for Alaska's US Senate candidates - Alaska Dispatch News

    Five questions for Alaska's US Senate candidates - Alaska Dispatch News
    Alaska Dispatch News
    Five questions for Alaska's US Senate candidates
    Alaska Dispatch News
    Alaska Dispatch News has compiled information on and from Alaska's U.S. Senate candidates. Instead of a long, formal questionnaire, we asked the candidates to respond to five questions each, some of which were selected from reader submissions.
  • Debate for the State 2016 – Thursday, November 3, 8:00PM

    Alaska Public Media will air two debates, one featuring candidates running for the U.S. House of Representatives and one featuring candidates running for the U.S. Senate. The live program will begin on Thursday, November 3 at 8:00 p.m. Here’s what you need to know about the broadcast:
    Where to watch: KAKM Channel 7 Anchorage, KTOO Channel 3 Juneau, KYUK Channel 15 Bethel
    Where to listen: 91.1 KSKA, Alaska Public Media RadioLivestreamModerator: Lori Townsend, News Director, APRN
    Panelists:
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  • Bering Strait School District unveils Fab Lab course in Unalakleet

    Bering Strait School District unveils Fab Lab course in Unalakleet
    At the Unalakleet School, a new class has been added to the curriculum for students that currently no other school in the Bering Strait School District offers. It’s called Fab Lab.
    Taught by Reid Tulloch, the Fab Lab class has resources like vinyl cutters, 3D printers and laser engravers available for students to use. (Photo by Davis Hovey, KNOM – Nome)Principal of the Wolfpack body, Perry Corsetti, started the school day by leading his students in the Pledge of Allegiance. Morning c
  • Fish Factor: The ups and down of fishing in 2016 - Capital city weekly

    Fish Factor: The ups and down of fishing in 2016
    Capital city weekly
    Values of Alaska salmon permits have taken a nose dive after a dismal fishing season for all but a few regions. “No activity for drift gillnet or seine permits in Prince William Sound…No interest in Southeast seine or troll permits…Nothing new in ...
  • Alaska Senator Calls Obama's Interior Secretary 'A Horrible Disappointment' - Daily Caller

    Alaska Senator Calls Obama's Interior Secretary 'A Horrible Disappointment' - Daily Caller
    Alaska Senator Calls Obama's Interior Secretary 'A Horrible Disappointment'
    Daily Caller
    U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell speaks during a news conference in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, April 28, 2016. REUTERS/Chris Wattie. 5305416. Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski said the current Secretary of the Interior has been a ...
  • Church seeks funding to repair icon damaged by Alaska quake - Fox News

    Church seeks funding to repair icon damaged by Alaska quake - Fox News
    Church seeks funding to repair icon damaged by Alaska quake
    Fox News
    KENAI, Alaska – A painted icon of Jesus praying in the Garden of Gethsemane that sits behind the altar in a Kenai church is closer to being repaired, months after it was damaged by a 7.1-magnitude earthquake. The quake struck the Kenai Peninsula Jan.and more »
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  • Wells Fargo Insurance Names Mike Taylor Managing Director for Washington and Alaska - Business Wire (press release)

    Wells Fargo Insurance Names Mike Taylor Managing Director for Washington and Alaska - Business Wire (press release)
    Wells Fargo Insurance Names Mike Taylor Managing Director for Washington and Alaska
    Business Wire (press release)
    SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Committed to serving the insurance and risk management needs of its middle market and large corporate customers in Washington and Alaska, Wells Fargo Insurance, part of Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC), has named ...and more »
  • Delta October Unit Revenue In Line, Alaska Air Traffic Outpaces Capacity - Investor's Business Daily

    Delta October Unit Revenue In Line, Alaska Air Traffic Outpaces Capacity - Investor's Business Daily
    Investor's Business Daily
    Delta October Unit Revenue In Line, Alaska Air Traffic Outpaces Capacity
    Investor's Business Daily
    Delta Air Lines (DAL) on Wednesday said October unit revenue fell in line with expectations, while Alaska Air Group (ALK) reportedly monthly carrying capacity that was roughly in line with its forecasts for the fourth quarter overall. Delta said unit ...
    Alaska Air Group declares quarterly dividendPR Newswire (press release)
    Alaska Air Group (ALK) Load Factor Rose 1.9 Poi
  • Alaska And Oil: A Lesson In Biting The Hand That Feeds You - Forbes

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    Alaska And Oil: A Lesson In Biting The Hand That Feeds You
    Forbes
    Jim Musselman and Caelus Energy would be happy to help Alaska solve its fiscal crisis. If it would only let him. There's no road to Smith Bay, Alaska. No people live there. The nearest town is Barrow, 70 miles away. Deadhorse is a bit farther. To ...
  • Alaska Native Community College Garners High Rankings - Indian Country Today Media Network

    Alaska Native Community College Garners High Rankings - Indian Country Today Media Network
    Indian Country Today Media Network
    Alaska Native Community College Garners High Rankings
    Indian Country Today Media Network
    It's one of the best community colleges in the United States, but you won't find ivy-covered walls or elite clubs here. Students are as likely to study conversational Iñupiaq as they are computer technology. And while their counterparts in sunnier ...
  • Alaska 'ice monster' video: What is swimming in the Chena River? - Christian Science Monitor

    Alaska 'ice monster' video: What is swimming in the Chena River? - Christian Science Monitor
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    Alaska 'ice monster' video: What is swimming in the Chena River?
    Christian Science Monitor
    Ice monster in Alaska? When video appeared online of an ice-covered object that appeared to be swimming in the current of Fairbanks Alaska's Chena River, viewers came up with theories ranging from sturgeon to shark to river monster. What is it really?
    Alaska's mysterious "Ice Monster" sparks comparisons to Loch NessCBS News
    Could This Be Alaska's Version of the Loch Ness Monster?Geek
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  • Alaska Editorial: Interior gas project goals worthwhile - Juneau Empire (subscription)

    Alaska Editorial: Interior gas project goals worthwhile
    Juneau Empire (subscription)
    It's not an easy time for the Interior Energy Project, the state-backed community effort to secure a clean-burning, low-cost home heating solution to the greater Fairbanks and North Pole area. Upward creep in cost estimates from former liquefaction ...
  • Unlawful 'free samples' postpone Anchorage's first pot shop - Alaska Public Radio Network

    Unlawful 'free samples' postpone Anchorage's first pot shop - Alaska Public Radio Network
    Unlawful 'free samples' postpone Anchorage's first pot shop
    Alaska Public Radio Network
    Marijuana for sale at a dispensary in California. (Photo: Dank Depot via Flickr Creative Commons). In an unexpected move, the Anchorage Assembly has put a stop on what would have been the first retail marijuana business in Alaska's largest city. At ...and more »
  • Unlawful ‘free samples’ postpone Anchorage’s first pot shop

    In an unexpected move, the Anchorage Assembly has put a stop on what would have been the first retail marijuana business in Alaska’s largest city. At least for now.
    During it’s Tuesday night meeting, the assembly voted on a resolution to delay finalizing inspections for Arctic Herbery, which was within days officially being in business.
    The action came after an inspector with the state’s Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office issued a violation against Arctic Herbery’s owne
  • Open enrollment starts, bringing changes to Alaska - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

    Open enrollment starts, bringing changes to Alaska - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
    KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
    Open enrollment starts, bringing changes to Alaska
    KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
    Open enrollment for the Health Insurance Marketplace started Tuesday, meaning big changes for some Alaskans. The marketplace offers insurance through the Affordable Care Act. Last year, one of Alaska's two providers, Moda, pulled out of the state.and more »
  • University of Alaska president proposes 5 percent tuition increase - Alaska Dispatch News

    University of Alaska president proposes 5 percent tuition increase - Alaska Dispatch News
    Alaska Dispatch News
    University of Alaska president proposes 5 percent tuition increase
    Alaska Dispatch News
    University of Alaska President Jim Johnsen said he will propose a 5 percent tuition increase rather than 10 percent for the 2017-18 academic year after students complained that the larger hike he first suggested would threaten affordability. "If we can ...
  • Even before the election, Alaska lawmakers are positioning for control of the House and Senate - Alaska Dispatch News

    Even before the election, Alaska lawmakers are positioning for control of the House and Senate - Alaska Dispatch News
    Alaska Dispatch News
    Even before the election, Alaska lawmakers are positioning for control of the House and Senate
    Alaska Dispatch News
    For a handful of Alaska House members, Election Day isn't when their campaigns will end — but when they'll really get started. At least three Republicans want to be the next House speaker, a job held for the last eight years by Mike Chenault, R-Nikiski.
  • Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016 - Alaska Public Radio Network

    Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016 - Alaska Public Radio Network
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    Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016
    Alaska Public Radio Network
    The body of fallen Fairbanks Police Sergeant Allen Brandt has returned home to Fairbanks. A procession was held today in Anchorage, where people gathered along the streets to honor Sgt. Brandt. Mental Health advocates asking Governor to look into ...
    Prosecutors upgrade charges in Alaska police officer's deathFox News
    After Fairbanks officer dies, murder charges filed against accused shooterAlaska Dispatch News
  • Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016

    Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016
    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
    Listen NowProcession held in Anchorage for fallen Fairbanks police officer
    Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage
    The body of fallen Fairbanks Police Sergeant Allen Brandt has returned home to Fairbanks. A procession was held today in Anchorage, where people gathered along the streets to honor Sgt. Brandt.
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  • Salmon fishing in St. Paul: Building a new subsistence resource

    Salmon fishing in St. Paul: Building a new subsistence resource
    For many Alaskans, subsistence is all about salmon. But in St. Paul, that isn’t the case. Fur seals and seabirds are primary subsistence food in the Pribilof Island community.
    Listen NowBut the Aleut Community of St. Paul’s Tribal Council thinks increasing a small salmon run on the island could provide food, and a lot more.
    Diodor Yesterday showing off the salmon he caught in St. Paul’s lagoon. (Photo courtesy of Lauren Divine).76-year-old Gregory Fratis, Sr., isn’t a fan
  • Mental Health advocates asking Governor to look into actions of Mental Health Trust

    Mental Health advocates asking Governor to look into actions of Mental Health Trust
    Mental health advocates are expressing concern that the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority is straying from its mission after the sudden resignation of its CEO, and several groups are calling for special audits of the trust.
    Listen NowWithin days of the resignation of Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority CEO Jeff Jessee and allegations of Open Meetings Act violations by members of the Board of Trustees, four of the boards that advise the trust and look out for its beneficiaries have held speci
  • Hughes, Hale vie for Senate F

    When Senator Bill Stoltz announced his retirement from political life, he left Senate F seat up for grabs. Senate F bridges the Anchorage suburbs of Chugiak and Peters Creek with the greater Palmer-Wasilla area, two regions with strong Republican leanings. Now Republican Representative Shelly Hughes has set her sights on Senate F, but newcomer Tim Hale wants to give her a run for the money.
    Listen NowShelley Hughes particpating on the RUNNING program (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media &
  • Sea Life Center receives grant

    Sea Life Center receives grant
    The Alaska Sea Life Center in Seward has received a grant to work with national zoos and aquariums to create a network of animal care professionals to respond in the event of an oil spill or other disaster.
    Listen NowThe Institute of Museum and Library Services has awarded the Center more than $455,000 over a three-year period. The center will work with the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine to develop and deliver training courses, and to create an aid framework to lo
  • Plot to attack HAARP facility in Gakona stopped by Georgia police

    The High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program or HAARP facility in Gakona was the target of a planned attack by two Georgia men. The Douglas Enterprise reported that 30-year-old Michael Mancil, and 21-year-old James Kenneth Dryden, both of Douglas, GA were arrested Thursday night after loading weapons, including assault rifles, thousands of rounds of ammunition, bullet proof vests, radio communications equipment and $5,000 cash into a vehicle.
    HAARP antenna array in Gakona, AK (Photo courte
  • Driest October on record in Fairbanks

    October 2016 was the driest on record in Fairbanks.
    National Weather Service meteorologist Christopher Cox says the October precipitation tally at Fairbanks International Airport was the lowest in Fairbanks’ 106 years of weather records.
    “We only had 0.02 inches of liquid precipitation in October and that was the driest October on record,” Cox said.
    Cox said the airport recorded less than an inch of snow, well below the over 10 inch normal.
    He said high pressure has blocked Ber
  • New Mat-Su flood mapping system more accurate

    After 2012 floods in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough required disaster relief, many area homeowners living in the flood plain were required to get expensive flood insurance. Now, a new mapping system will allow about a thousand homeowners to consider dropping their flood insurance bills.
    According to Matanuska-Susitna Borough development services manager Alex Strawn, a recent mapping project has enabled the borough to reduce or change the outlines of the flood plain. And this comes as good ne
  • Procession held in Anchorage for fallen Fairbanks police officer

    Anchorage citizens watch as a police escort brings FPD Sgt. Allen Brandt’s body to Ted Stevens International Airport for transport to Fairbanks (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)The body of fallen Fairbanks Police Sergeant Allen Brandt has returned home. A procession was held Tuesday in Anchorage, where people gathered along the streets to honor him.
    Brandt’s remains were taken from the state morgue, in Anchorage, to the Ted Stevens International Airp
  • Alaskan gulls carry drug-resistant E. coli

    Alaskan gulls carry drug-resistant E. coli
    As antibiotic-resistant super bugs become more common, they’re beginning to show up in places we wouldn’t expect.
    Glaucous-winged gull
    (Photo courtesy of the National Audubon Society.)A new study has found antibiotic-resistant E. coli in gulls living on the Kenai Peninsula.
    There aren’t many people in the world who get excited about gull poop.
    But Andy Ramey is one of them. He’s a research geneticist with the USGS Alaska Science Center in Anchorage.
    It’s not the gul
  • Alaska Airlines flight grounded after e-cig batteries ignite - Alaska ... - Alaska Dispatch News

    Alaska Airlines flight grounded after e-cig batteries ignite - Alaska ... - Alaska Dispatch News
    Alaska Dispatch News
    Alaska Airlines flight grounded after e-cig batteries ignite - Alaska ...
    Alaska Dispatch News
    Passengers on an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Anchorage on Sunday were delayed for more than five hours after a passenger's backpack started ...and more »

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