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Daily 4–6 minute newscasts from KNBA News deliver the latest headlines and issues across Alaska, produced and hosted by our local news team.
  • MaryCait Dolan/KYUK
    On today's webcast: Using drones to count fish and reindeer, Anchorage’s looming natural gas shortage, a new research program for critical minerals, and how Juneau is transforming bear resistant trash cans into public art.
  • Photo courtesy of Ashley Kearns and Alaska Public Media
    Girdwood's hidden homeless mostly have jobs, just no place they can afford to live. Construction is about to begin on the long-debated King Cove-Cold Bay Road. Also Gov. Mike Dunleavy sets a new record for vetoes. And one Yukon River elder's craving for salmon is finally satisfied after a rare subsistence opening.
  • A long legal battle over the Anchorage port is finally resolved. Also on KNBA: a new marijuana law and research on how climate change might help spread the parasite that causes swimmer's itch.
  • A presidential pardon for a Wasilla mechanic and a black bear checks out a historic Juneau hotel, Also, on KNBA: A Homer Republican is censured by a House ethics committee.
  • Not exactly fireworks on July 4th, but a rare funnel cloud was spotted at a lodge near the Denali Highway. Also, with Arctic shipping on the rise, the growing threat to bowhead whales and ringed seals. And horse therapy for humans helps heal trauma.
  • Why baseball and July 4th go hand in hand for St. Paul Island, which has the oldest ball club and softball field in Alaska.
  • Anchorage Police are still investigating the cause of a fatal crash yesterday near Potter Marsh that killed two people. Also: former U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland visited Juneau on her book tour. And how one Southeast school district is helping students become safe and ethical hunters.
  • The Alaska Division of Elections had to make a fast decision on how to put two men named Dan Sullivan on ballot. Also, the fate of 35,000 commemorative bricks being removed from Anchorage's Town Square. And it was not your typical camping trip find. But two women staying in a cabin on an island near Sitka discovered a rare deep-sea whale, washed up on a beach. It was pregnant.
  • The Alaska Supreme Court says it OK to have two Dan Sullivans on the ballot. Also on KNBA: Alaska Native groups unite to bring veterinary care to rural communities for challenges that urban areas rarely face. And a beach clean-up in Sitka turns a mysterious message in a bottle.
  • It's up to the Alaska Supreme Court to decide if there will be two Dan Sullivans on the ballot. In other political news, Natasha von Imhof announces plans to run for Anchorage mayor. And in Southeast Alaska, a call for tourists to treat totem poles and other symbols of cultural heritage with respect.
  • KNBA's Top Stories: Anchorage police say more about an officer involved shooting at an Anchorage Walmart. The debate of two Dan Sullivans on the ballot goes to court. The end of the era for Jesuit priests in Alaska and AFN announces plans for its 2026 convention.
  • Governor Dunleavy's veto pen is targeted at state revenue sharing, efforts to recruit childcare workers, medicare reimbursement for caretakers, and at an Alaska statehood icon, the late Vic Fischer. Also a $1.8 million legal bill comes due in a subsistence lawsuit the state lost in a series of court battles.