Casey Grove

5 days ago | alaskapublic.org | Casey Grove

Friday on Alaska News Nightly:Sen. Dan Sullivan hopes a new law will protect Alaska fisheries from foreign fleets. Also, Anchorage food trucks and breweries have a symbiotic relationship. And after a half-century of outfitting Anchorage's cowboy types, a western wear store is about to ride off into the sunset.

1 week ago | alaskapublic.org | Casey Grove

Canadians took it as a threat to their national sovereignty when President Trump said their country should become the 51st State. That includes residents of the Yukon, some of whom travel to Alaska for recreation, while residents of Alaska border towns head north to the Yukon for things like groceries, veterinary care or emergency medical services. But despite a kinship with their neighbors, some Yukoners are vowing not to travel to Alaska.

1 week ago | alaskapublic.org | Casey Grove

President Trump asserted on Monday that he had fired three members of the board that directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, including an Alaskan with deep roots in public media. Diane Kaplan ran the Alaska Public Radio Network before leading Alaska's largest philanthropic organization, the Rasmusen Foundation. A judge paused Kaplan's firing from the CPB board, as well as two fellow board members — Tom Rothman and Laura Gore Ross — while a lawsuit plays out in court.

3 weeks ago | alaskapublic.org | Casey Grove

Many of Alaska’s coastal villages are experiencing the existential threat posed by human-caused climate change more acutely than almost anywhere on the planet. Researchers say parts of Alaska are warming up to four times faster than other places on Earth. And while intense storms, rapidly eroding coastlines and thawing permafrost wreak havoc on their homes, rural residents are grappling with the impacts to infrastructure.

3 weeks ago | alaskapublic.org | Casey Grove

The story of the Fairbanks Four could fill a book, and now it does. It's called "The Fairbanks Four: Murder, Injustice and the Birth of a Movement" and chronicles how the men -- three of whom are Alaska Native -- were convicted with scant evidence in the beating death of a white teenager on a Fairbanks street in 1997.