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  • KNBA Top Stories: Federal officials agree with advocates that the number of Alaska’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous People cases have reached a crisis point. A series of assaults has Juneau on edge.The Anchorage Assembly attempts to balance short term rentals with the city’s housing shortage.Some surprising numbers on Anchorage’s status as a leading global air cargo hub.
  • KNBA's Top Stories: The Downtown Hope Center is expanding in Anchorage, doubling its space and job training programs to help more people move out of homelessness. Also, the Senate passed its budget, with a smaller Permanent Fund Dividend than the House version. A survey of Alaskans shows confidence in the economy is down. Anchorage shares space with wildlife—but feeding them can now cost you.The Alaska Native Heritage Center kicks off its summer season with a Mother’s Day Celebration.
  • KNBA's Top Stories: The Anchorage Fire Department expects an average wildfire season, but average doesn’t mean risk free. National Democrats reserve ten million dollars in Alaska TV ads. President Trump passes through Alaska enroute to China. This summer, The Jungle Book meets the Bering Sea—the story of the White Seal, retold through the eyes of a young Unangan hero. Haines turns out to celebrate the re-opening of its only convenience store.
  • Against great odds, the world's top athletes are about to take the spotlight. Here are some key things to keep an eye out for during the first half of the Summer Olympic Games.
  • Basketball is the most popular sport among both boys and girls, but many women end up dropping the game in adulthood, even though they still love it. Injuries, work and family are three reasons why.
  • Yotam Ottolenghi and his head chef Ramael Scully discuss NOPI, their latest cookbook. It's named for the popular London restaurant that Ottolenghi owns and where Scully is head chef.
  • The 24 Hours of Lemons is an endurance race with a twist: The cars cost less than $500, and costumes are unlimited. A recent race saw a Toyota Yaris painted like a snail, and a team dressed as bees.
  • The over-the-top Berlin band performs three songs that combine garage-rock, soul and psychedelia.
  • The biographer discusses the life of the late Big Star and Box Tops singer-songwriter Alex Chilton.
  • On this day in 1997, Garry Kasparov, the world's top chess player, played IBM's chess-playing supercomputer, Deep Blue — and lost. Now, poker players are trying something similar, and they're winning.
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