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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The American Geophysical Union is fundraising for the climate report’s long-term publication. -
Clint Johnson investigated over a thousand accidents over the course of his career. -
The Paneok Project honors the first Alaska Native woman pilot, Ellen Paneok. -
Joseph “Joe” Palmer and Tom Fisher worked for Calista Brice, a subsidiary of Calista Corporation. -
The Olgoonik Corporation, which manages the Wainwright fuel station, said an emergency fuel delivery was expected by late Thursday. -
Alaska State Troopers said they plan to name all of the victims once the state medical examiner completes identification. -
The plane was chartered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to fly from Anchorage to Cape Newenham. -
The Arctic Report Card has been documenting environmental changes in the northern part of the globe for two decades. -
The state plans to build more than 150 new weather stations, but on any given day up to 20 existing stations in Alaska are not reporting. -
The plane crashed onto an ice floe after experiencing "severe icing conditions,' killing all nine passengers and the pilot.
