Alena Naiden
Alaska Desk Reporter | KNBA 90.3FMBased at KNBA in Anchorage, Alena Naiden is an Alaska Desk reporter who focuses on rural and Indigenous communities in the Arctic and around the state.
Before joining the Desk, Alena was a reporter at the Anchorage Daily News and Arctic Sounder for over three years, covering a wide range of issues affecting the North Slope and Northwest Arctic. Before that, she wrote for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.
Alena is from Russia and considers herself lucky to call Alaska home.
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Whimbrel populations have shrunk by about 70% over the past several decades. The birds are considered threatened by the United Nations. -
The U.S. Department of the Interior announced in May that it was restoring off-road vehicle access to the park for subsistence. Residents have been advocating for that change for decades. -
Alaska Native corporations rely on contracts awarded through the 8(a) program – especially from the Department of Defense – for a significant portion of their revenue. -
New rules for camping on Kenai during the dipnetting season. Earnings sales at Celebration. -
Alaska's increased participation in SNAP and Petersburg’s first traditional canoe in a century. -
Alaska's minimum wage hike, Bethel police shooting and a new Lingít comic book that brings popular graphic novel characters to Juneau. -
A wildfire near Ambler is now 30% contained. A sale on oil and gas drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge doesn't catch a lot of attention. And the Native Village of Kipnuk reflects on FEMA disaster declaration. -
The fire, which started Thursday in Ambler’s landfill, was estimated at 1,500 acres by Monday. -
A bill affirming Alaska Native artists' right to sell art made of marine mammals is headed to the president’s desk. And — federal regulators voted in June to prohibit hunters in northwestern Alaska from harvesting caribou cows. -
The fire, which started Thursday in Ambler’s landfill, had burned around 500 acres by Friday.
