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KNBA News: Friday, April 3, 2026

The Alaska Native Language Center was recently moved into the College of Indigenous Studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks
Jonathan Wasilewski, The Sun Star-UAF Student Newspaper
The Alaska Native Language Center was recently moved into the College of Indigenous Studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks

KNBA's Top Stories:

  • Linguists across the state say the Alaska Native Language Center is being starved of funding.
  • University of Alaska employees have voted to form a union.
  • Anchorage police have released new information about a death last weekend involving a man who started a fire in a home on the city’s south side and shot at officers.
  • Today is the deadline for those affected by last October’s devastating coastal storm to apply for aid from FEMA.
Rhonda McBride has a long history of working in both television and radio in Alaska, going back to 1988, when she was news director at KYUK, the public radio and TV stations in Bethel, which broadcast in both the English and Yup’ik languages.