Jill Fratis

Anchorage police have stepped up patrols near the popular University Lake Park, after a shooting Monday night left a man wounded, and KNBA’s Rhonda McBride looks at how Alaska Native languages offer a window, not just to the past, but into humanity and the spirituality of gratitude.

A man arrested last month, in a string of recent Anchorage bank robberies had served time for robbing one of the locations five years earlier.

Researchers from a nationwide consortium recently wrapped up a 12-year study of the Alaskan Arctic this summer. The Bethel Search and Rescue (BSAR) recently did their 2024 Kuskokwim River Aerial Survey.

A dead whale washed up last weekend on the mudflats near Westchester Lagoon. Anchorage utility officials are asking thousands of residents to check their pipes for possible lead fittings.

The Alaska U.S. House seat flips to a Republican. Alaska keeps open primaries and ranked choice voting.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEM, announced last week that President Joe Biden had approved a major disaster declaration for Ketchikan’s August landslide. The U.S. Supreme Court has let stand an Alaska law aimed at reducing dark money in politics

A sexually transmitted infection was the most commonly reported infectious disease in 2023. The Kodiak region’s commercial Tanner crab fishery will open again in 2025.

Republican Nick Begich III declared victory over Democratic Congresswoman Mary Peltola in the race for Alaska’s U.S House seat on Saturday. A new state study will examine whether to build a tunnel under the Knik Arm to create a second highway connection between Mat-Su and Anchorage.

The Department of the Interior has set the stage for a controversial land trade that would allow a road to be built through Alaska’s Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is going to be in the spotlight a lot next year.

Alaska’s congressional delegation announced earlier this week that over $100 million will go towards port and maritime infrastructure projects around the state. Alaska’s state-owned development corporation is advancing plans to explore for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.