Students, senator discuss ways to boost Alaska Native teachers
May 09, 2008 at 11:21AM AKST
It’s not often one receives 45 minutes of personal time and attention from a U.S. senator.
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May 09, 2008 at 11:21AM AKST
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full story »Library program offers reading bug to young readers
May 09, 2008 at 11:21AM AKST
Chukchi Consortium Library is opening its doors to patrons who want to catch the reading bug and learn about the world of insects.
full story »Sparrows of Shishmaref sing happily far from their normal range
May 09, 2008 at 11:20AM AKST
Just in from Shishmaref science teacher Ken Stenek: On this late April day, two house sparrows are singing their little hearts out while perched on the metal roof of the Shishmaref School.
full story »Statewide photography exhibition winners announced
May 09, 2008 at 11:20AM AKST
Alaska Positive 2008, a statewide photography-as-art exhibition organized every two years by the Alaska State Museum in Juneau, opened with a reception on Friday, May 2.
full story »DNA links Alaska Natives to ancient glacier man
May 09, 2008 at 11:20AM AKST
Seventeen Alaska and Canada Natives have been linked by DNA to an ancient man whose remains were found in 1999 in a glacier.
full story »State tries to get a grip on deckhands’ economic impact
May 09, 2008 at 11:20AM AKST
It’s hard to account for a work force if you don’t know who or where it is. full story »Point Lay whaling brings together elders, youth
May 02, 2008 at 10:12AM AKST
Preparations are well under way for Point Lay’s first whaling season.
full story »Public comment requested on Northwest Land use, management
May 02, 2008 at 10:12AM AKST
The state Department of Natural Resources is seeking comment on a draft for a Northwest Area Plan.
full story »Tribal health issues find champion with Gilbert
May 02, 2008 at 10:12AM AKST
Alisa Gilbert is committed to bringing quality health care to Alaska Natives
full story »U.S. lawmakers take aim at uninspected seafood from foreign farms
May 02, 2008 at 10:12AM AKST
The 2008 Alaska legislative session might be a near wrap, but several new "fish laws" are still moving at a good clip through Congress.
full story »Energy authority to host local town hall meetings
May 02, 2008 at 10:12AM AKST
The Alaska Energy Authority has begun a sequence of meetings it will present in 25 communities around the state with the goals of hearing what Alaskans know about local energy resources and asking how they think those resources can be developed to lower energy costs.
full story »Kotzebue High Spanish Club Travels to Spain
April 25, 2008 at 10:21AM AKST
On April 4 the Kotzebue High School Spanish Club left for a 10-day trip to Spain. I led the group of four high school students: Melissa Williams, Ariel Harris, Jacqui Lambert, and Emma Melton.
full story »Kotzebue band receives superior rating
April 25, 2008 at 10:21AM AKST
Kotzebue High School played host to more than 100 musicians from April 10-12, when students from Bethel, Dillingham, Nome, Togiak and Unalakleet came to town for the 2008 Region One Music Festival.
full story »Rural care providers receive new mental health telemedicine resource
April 25, 2008 at 10:21AM AKST
Front-line care providers in rural Alaska have a new way to help meet their patients’ mental health needs.
full story »Atmospheric scientists gear up for collaborative airborne campaigns
April 25, 2008 at 10:21AM AKST
During the mid-1970s, Glenn Shaw of the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks stumbled upon the notion of Arctic haze after collecting aerosol samples from Barrow.
full story »Inupiat Studies program receives Shell grant
April 25, 2008 at 10:21AM AKST
Inupiat studies at Ilisagvik College have received a helping hand in the form of a $224,000 grant from Shell Oil.
full story »Overheated boiler causes sewer station fire
April 25, 2008 at 10:21AM AKST
North Slope Borough Fire Department crews labored for more than four hours to extinguish a fire that burned wood and insulation in a Sewage Transfer Station in Barrow on Tuesday, April 15.
full story »KBRW interview brings border immigration to North Slope listeners
April 25, 2008 at 10:21AM AKST
In the past 10 years as morning host on KBRW, I’ve been doing 10-minute live interviews with folks from Barrow, the North Slope, the rest of Alaska and the Lower 48.
full story »Challenge Life announces mileage winners
April 25, 2008 at 10:21AM AKST
The Challenge Life Youth Foundation concluded the 2007-08 "Mileage Plan Program" on Friday, April 11.
full story »Foundation creates Mindy Schloss Memorial Fund
April 25, 2008 at 10:08AM AKST
Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation has created a memorial fund in honor of Mindy Schloss, a long-time health care worker who served village clinics throughout the state.
full story »Filthy desert air a half-world away from glacier that licks a river
April 25, 2008 at 9:56AM AKST
Cathy Cahill got a package in the mail last week from a desert on the other side of the world. She didn’t know what was inside, but she hoped it was air samples from Baghdad. When she opened the package, she didn’t believe her eyes.
full story »Alaska Army National Guard holds transformation ceremony
April 25, 2008 at 9:55AM AKST
The Alaska Army National Guard transformation ceremony from the 207th Infantry Group (Scout) to the 297th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade (Scout) and 38th Troop Command took place Sunday, April 13, at Buckner Physical Fitness Center on Fort Richardson.
full story »Keynote speakers to address conference of rural providers
April 25, 2008 at 9:53AM AKST
The 25th Annual Rural Providers Conference is set for June 2-6 in Glennallen.
full story »Rural nutrition education program receives $1 million grant
April 25, 2008 at 9:53AM AKST
An educational program that teaches the use of traditional foods to boost health among Alaska Natives has received its own boost in funds.
full story »Palin family welcomes fifth child
April 25, 2008 at 9:53AM AKST
Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd, welcomed the arrival of their fifth child on Friday, April 18, in Anchorage.
full story »Zooming diesel prices idle fleet workers, hit bottom line hard
April 25, 2008 at 9:53AM AKST
High fuel prices have idled 20 percent of Kodiak’s trawl fleet and hundreds of local seafood workers. full story »ANI picks up five journalism awards
April 25, 2008 at 9:53AM AKST
During the 2008 Alaska Press Club journalism awards banquet in Anchorage on Saturday, four out of six weekly newspapers owned by Alaska Newspapers won awards.
full story »State to auction 229 surveyed parcels
April 25, 2008 at 9:53AM AKST
Alaska residents can pick up a little piece of the state at the Alaska Department of Natural Resources’ Spring 2008 Alaska State Land Offering.
full story »Kotzebue teen suspect in stabbing incident
April 18, 2008 at 10:02AM AKST
Police said alcohol was a factor in a stabbing incident that took place in Kotzebue on Friday, April 4.
full story »Hearing on Red Dog contaminates postponed
April 18, 2008 at 10:02AM AKST
A hearing on Red Dog Mine scheduled for Monday, April 7, was cancelled, much to the chagrin of Senate House Speaker John Harris.
full story »Interior to consider rare loon for endangered listing
April 18, 2008 at 10:02AM AKST
The'a0Interior Department has agreed to decide by'a0February'a0whether the rare yellow-billed loon should be listed under the Endangered Species Act, according to a written statement from'a0the'a0Center for Biological Diversity.
full story »Barrow High graduates open law firm in Barrow, Kotzebue
April 18, 2008 at 10:02AM AKST
Two Barrow High School graduates and one former North Slope Borough police officer opened Caliber Law Group with offices in Barrow, Kotzebue and the Mat-Su Valley.
full story »Working group to meet on caribou hunting conflict
April 18, 2008 at 10:02AM AKST
Game Management Unit 23’s first working group meeting will take place in Kotzebue from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on April 23-24, at the Northwest Arctic Borough Assembly Chambers.
full story »Men charged with marijuana trafficking
April 18, 2008 at 10:02AM AKST
Eighty-nine baggies of marijuana and more than $17,000 in cash were seized as a result of a search conducted by the North Slope Borough Police on Monday, April 7.
full story »Southern drama to visit northern stage
April 18, 2008 at 10:02AM AKST
Sets are going up and the actors are hard at work as the cast and crew of "To Kill a Mockingbird" prepare for upcoming performances April 18-19super osupersub at the Barrow High School Auditorium.
full story »Noorvik teen charged with attempted murder
April 18, 2008 at 10:02AM AKST
A 17-year-old suicidal male from Noorvik has been charged with first-degree attempted murder of a village police officer, according to state troopers.
full story »BP, ConocoPhillips team up on gas pipeline
April 18, 2008 at 9:57AM AKST
BP and ConocoPhillips have combined resources to start Denali – The Alaska Gas Pipeline, according to a written statement from the companies.
full story »Alaska volunteers win national award for service to hospital
April 18, 2008 at 9:57AM AKST
Three Alaskans received the American Hospital Association’s Award for Volunteer Excellence, which recognizes work for the Alaska Native Medical Center, in particular gathering its museum-quality art collection.
full story »From owls to falcons, scientists share latest word on Alaska birds
April 18, 2008 at 9:57AM AKST
Some news from the Alaska Bird Conference, held this spring in Fairbanks:
full story »State to auction 229 surveyed parcels
April 18, 2008 at 9:57AM AKST
Alaska residents can pick up a little piece of the state at the Alaska Department of Natural Resources’ Spring 2008 Alaska State Land Offering.
full story »Alaska Air National Guard gains new Wing Commander
April 18, 2008 at 9:57AM AKST
CAMP DENALI – Members of the Alaska Air National Guard’s 168th Air Refueling Wing welcomed their new commander, Col. Donald "Scott" Wenke, and said goodbye to Col. John O. Griffin in a change of command ceremony on April 5.
full story »Scientists begin collaborative studies of Arctic atmospheric conditions
April 18, 2008 at 9:55AM AKST
Scientists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and several national programs are partnering to collect additional data in an effort to better understand an atmospheric condition dubbed Arctic haze.
full story »Stevens presses Begich for clean campaign
April 11, 2008 at 8:23AM AKST
Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich hasn’t announced he’ll run for U.S. Senate, but incumbent Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, is already asking him to wage an issue-focused campaign free of “smear tactics and attack politics."
full story »Interior to consider rare loon for endangered listing
April 10, 2008 at 9:21AM AKST
The Interior Department has agreed to decide by February whether the rare yellow-billed loon should be listed under the Endangered Species Act, according to a written statement from the Center for Biological Diversity.
full story »BP, ConocoPhillips team up on gas pipeline
April 08, 2008 at 9:29AM AKST
BP and ConocoPhillips have combined resources to start Denali – The Alaska Gas Pipeline. The pipeline will move approximately four billion cubic feet of natural gas per day to markets, and will be the largest private sector construction project ever built in North America, according to a written statement from the companies.
full story »Endangered whale’s home proposed for oil development
April 08, 2008 at 9:07AM AKST
The Bush Administration today took the first step toward opening up 5.6 million acres in the Bering Sea off Alaska to oil and gas leasing. The proposal, published in today’s Federal Register by the Department of Interior’s Minerals Management Service, would allow oil development in an area north of the Aleutian Islands near Bristol Bay that has been designated critical habitat for the North Pacific right whale, according to a written statement from the Center for Biological Diversity.
full story »Money available for projects honoring statehood
April 07, 2008 at 8:12AM AKST
The Alaska Humanities Forum is offering a total of $1 million to projects that explore statehood.
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