Anchorage news

• Gardentalk – Peony division and planting

  14-09-2017 23:08 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Get the hatchet for dividing peonies. (Photo courtesy of Ed Buyarski)
  Peony is a large and tall perennial with fragrant and beautiful blooms. They can live as long as 50 years and are well suited for growing in Alaska’s climate.
  In Alaska, peonies usually bloom in early summer, much later than elsewhere in the northern hemisphere. Because of that delay, Master Gardener Ed Buyarski said Alaska’s commercial gardeners have been able to capitalize on demand in the peony market.
  White and
  
  Read more

• Newscast – Thursday, September 14, 2017

  14-09-2017 23:06 via ktoo.org
  
  
  https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/09/20170914newscast.mp3In this newscast:
  A Juneau candidate forum ahead of the Oct. 3 municipal election will be Thursday night;
  A new special interest group is supporting Juneau Assembly candidates who support fully restoring a senior sales tax exemption;
  University of Alaska President Jim Johnsen called for a quick resolution to a directive ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program; and
  Seattle City Council President Bruce Harrell ha
  
  Read more

• Special interest groups mostly favor incumbents in Juneau’s local election

  14-09-2017 22:40 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Political campaign signs for the Oct. 3 election in front of a downtown residence in Juneau on Sept. 14. (Photo by Jacob Resneck/KTOO)
  As next month’s municipal election nears, candidates for Juneau Assembly are picking up endorsements and support from special interest groups.
  https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/09/170914INTERESTS.mp3Special interest groups are required to register with the Alaska Public Offices Commission. There are 16 groups registered for Juneau’s local e
  
  Read more

• In Quinhagak, an ivory carver pays tribute to the ancients’ work

  14-09-2017 21:43 via ktoo.org
  John Smith is struggling to replicate the ancestral work that volunteers have found at Nunalleq. (Photo by Teresa Cotsirilos/KYUK)
  An exhausted team of archaeologists on the Bering Sea coast just finished their dig at Nunalleq for the year after uncovering hundreds of artifacts.
  They plan to return to the 700-year-old village next summer, provided the winter storms don’t wash it away.
  The discoveries at Nunalleq have had a quiet but profound effect on several residents. One
  John Smith
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Police departments deploy garbage trucks to block vehicle attacks in crowds

  14-09-2017 19:55 via ktoo.org
  You might know it as a garbage truck.
  But to police departments around the country, it has become a cutting-edge tool in law enforcement.
  “More and more, we’re seeing attacks both in the U.S. and abroad where vehicles are utilized,” says Daniel Linskey, a retired Boston Police Department superintendent in chief who now works for a security management firm called Kroll Associates.
  He points to the lethal examples of cars running into crowds in Nice, France, in London and in Char
  
  Read more

• Mayor breaks tie in Soldotna cannabis vote; moratorium will expire Dec. 31

  14-09-2017 19:48 via ktoo.org
  After about an hour of testimony and debate, the Soldotna City Council took its final vote on an ordinance that would permanently ban the sale or cultivation of cannabis inside city limits.
  Council members Tim Cashman, Linda Murphy, and Paul Whitney voted in favor of the permanent ban, while Council members Lisa Parker, Regina Daniels and Tyson Cox voted against.
  “We have three yes votes and three no votes,” City Clerk Shellie Saner said.
  “Alright, thank you madam clerk,”
  
  Read more

• UA president calls for action on DACA ahead of regents meeting in Juneau

  14-09-2017 04:48 via ktoo.org
  Jim Johnsen attends a meet and greet in Juneau on July 7, 2015. He was a candidate for University of Alaska president at the time. (Photo by Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO)
  Earlier this week, University of Alaska President Jim Johnsen wrote Alaska’s congressional delegation urging it to quickly resolve the Trump administration’s directive to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.The Obama-era immigration policy protected certain undocumented immigrants brought to the Uni
  
  Read more

• National labs to field test microgrid tech in Cordova

  14-09-2017 03:18 via ktoo.org
  Panelists spoke about microgrid innovation in Alaska at a U.S. Senate Energy Committee field hearing in Cordova, June 10, 2017. From left, Cordova Mayor Clay Koplin, Abraham Ellis of the Sandia National Laboratories, Gwen Holdmann of the Alaska Center for Energy and Power, Meera Kohler of the Alaska Village Electric Cooperative, and Geoff Larson of the Alaskan Brewing Co. (Photo by Rachel Waldholz/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
  Several national labs and universities will partner with the Alaska com
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• For third year in a row, Alaska seabirds wash up dead

  14-09-2017 03:14 via ktoo.org
  For the third year in a row, seabirds are washing up dead along the coastline in Alaska. Hundreds of birds have been discovered along a stretch of the Bering Sea, on the Pribilof Islands and as far north as Deering.
  A Northern fulmar found dead along the coast this year. (Photo by Ken Stenek/Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team)
  Julia Parrish, an associate dean at University of Washington, says seabirds have to work really hard just trying to find dinner.
  “You’re spending a he
  
  Read more

• Beneath political firestorm on Arctic Ocean drilling, two projects make steady progress

  14-09-2017 02:35 via ktoo.org
  Shell rig leaving Dutch Harbor in October 2015. Shell may have abandoned its efforts to drill in Arctic federal waters, but two other companies are still moving forward with plans to do so. (Photo by John Ryan/KUCB)
  Efforts to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean put Alaska at the center of an international debate. It’s a highly political topic, one both former President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump weighed in on. And to this day, there hasn’t been any oil produced from Arcti
  
  Read more

• Juneau Afternoon – 9-14-17

  14-09-2017 02:00 via ktoo.org
  Thursday at 3 on a Juneau Afternoon, Scott Burton will host.
  We’ll highlight the UAS Nursing program;
  We’ll find out how to nominate someone to be an AWARE Woman of Distinction;
  Heather Mitchell will be here to highlight this weekend’s Juneau Cabaret;
  We’ll get a preview of Saturday’s DIVAs performance;
  And Nancy DeCherney will be here with Arts Up.
   
  That, Writer’s Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, live at 3 on KTOO, repeated at 4 on KRNN; and availabl
  
  Read more

• State denies ballot initiative on salmon habitat

  14-09-2017 01:30 via ktoo.org
  Pink salmon spawn in City Creek near Petersburg. (File photo by KFSK)
  Alaska’s Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott has denied a proposed ballot initiative designed to offer greater protections for salmon habitat from mining or other development.
  The group Stand for Salmon proposed an initiative requiring water quality standards in anadromous fish streams and giving the commissioner of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game greater authority to deny a development project if it would harm or alter salmon
  
  Read more

• School shooter in Washington state is apprehended; one student dead

  14-09-2017 01:14 via ktoo.org
  A student at a high school in rural Washington state opened fire outside a biology classroom on Wednesday, killing another student and wounding three others before being caught.
  The shooting occurred at Freeman High School in the tiny town of Rockford, about 26 miles south of Spokane near the Idaho border.
  “I was putting my backpack away and I heard a loud pop, and I turned around. He was walking around,” Elisa Vigil, a 14-year-old freshman, told the Spokesman-Review.
  “He had h
  
  Read more

• Family returns to Kodiak after 10 years sailing around the world

  14-09-2017 00:44 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Elias, 11, left, snacks on an apple before going off to a cross country race with his brother Eric, 7, and mom Alisa Abookire. Along with their boys’ dad, Mike Litzow, returned to Kodiak after roughly 10 years of sailing the world. (Photo by Kayla Desroches/KMXT)
  Alisa Abookire traces her family’s journey on a plastic globe.
  “And then we went back to French Polynesia – lucky us – for the third time, and then we spent a year in Patagonia and went to the Falkland
  
  Read more

Follow @AnchorageNewsUS on Twitter!