Alaska Public Media

Alaska Public Media utilizes various media channels to help all Alaskans lead more informed and connected lives. It creates and shares news and content that offer opportunities for lifelong learning in areas such as public affairs, health, leisure, science, nature, economic and social development, civic engagement, and global news. Based in Southcentral Alaska, Alaska Public Media includes KSKA radio, KAKM-TV, Create TV, PBS KIDS, and their website alaskapublic.org. Additionally, they manage Statewide News and collaborate with KTOO in Juneau and KYUK in Bethel for a shared television service. Together, Alaska Public Media and its partners provide content that reaches 97% of Alaska's population.

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Anchorage ordinance to criminalize camping in public draws heated public testimony

2 days ago | alaskapublic.org | Wesley Early

A proposed ordinance to criminalize camping in Anchorage’s public spaces brought a huge crowd to the city’s Assembly meeting Tuesday. South Anchorage Assembly member Keith McCormick’s ordinance – co-sponsored by Eagle River-Chugiak Assembly members Jared Goecker and Scott Myers – would make camping in a public area a class B misdemeanor, which carries a penalty of up to six months in prison and a $2,000 fine.
Crews move toward critical Matanuska riverbank repairs in Butte

3 days ago | alaskapublic.org | Amy Bushatz

What you need to know:Floodwaters along the Old Glenn Highway in Butte continued to slowly recede. Monday as state crews cleared a path, built an access road and prepared to repair a broken revetment along the Matanuska River to stop the flow of water. About 3,000 tons of gravel are being used to construct the road. Crews will repair the revetment with large rock known as riprap. A National Weather Service flood advisory for the area remains in effect through Wednesday night.
Former Juneau Empire editor launches local online newspaper

4 days ago | alaskapublic.org | Clarise Larson

The Juneau Independent, a new web-based newsroom in Juneau, launched today with a mission to offer a newspaper that is locally owned and operated. Mark Sabbatini, the former managing editor of the Juneau Empire, is leading the effort. He’s worked in the newspaper industry for nearly four decades with stints at the Empire, the Los Angeles Times and the Antarctic Sun.
Man arrested on Juneau cruise ship was impersonating an American, authorities say

1 week ago | alaskapublic.org | Clarise Larson

A man who allegedly impersonated an American to board a cruise ship last month was arrested twice in Juneau on charges including fraud, theft and attempted escape. Authorities say Enrico Ronquillo, 37, used a Californian’s name to board the Discovery Princess cruise ship in Seattle. State troopers arrested Ronquillo, who was federally charged May 14 with false impersonation of a U.S. citizen, making and using a false document, and two counts of aggravated identity theft.
Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, July 19, 2025

1 week ago | alaskapublic.org | Tim Rockey

Thursday on Alaska News Nightly:Some Newtok residents forced to relocate due to climate change find problems with their new homes. Plus, lightning-caused wildfires spread across parts of the Interior. And, a Homer woman publishes an Alaska glacier dictionary. Reports tonight from:Rhonda McBride and Ava White in AnchorageBrian Venua in Kodiak Tim Ellis in Delta JunctionClarise Larson and Alix Soliman in JuneauEmily Schwing in Newtok and Mertarvik
A trio of brown bears crashes coops in Anchorage Hillside neighborhoods

1 week ago | alaskapublic.org | Ava White

Anchorage hillside residents have reported several incidents of brown bears killing unsecured chickens and smashing their coops since May, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Reports are scattered across the city’s Hillside neighborhoods, near De Armoun, Huffman and O’Malley Roads. The Hillside culprits are a bear family consisting of a sow and two yearlings, according to the department’s Anchorage Area Biologist Cory Stantorf.
Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, June 18, 2025

1 week ago | alaskapublic.org | Tim Rockey

Wednesday on Alaska News Nightly:Environmental groups oppose a federal land sale included in the Republican congressional megabill. Plus, a geologist with a history of major Alaska oil finds says he's found another hot prospect on the North Slope. And, a salmon season kickoff in Bethel comes with a warning about serious threats to salmon habitat.
Anchorage clears its 2 largest homeless encampments

1 week ago | alaskapublic.org | Hannah Flor

Brian Vaughan read the signs that leaned against a barricade of bike parts, scrap metal, furniture and old shopping carts. “And then the one we made up last night, ‘Coming to a neighborhood near you,’” he said, laughing. Vaughan was standing on Mountain View Dr. on Tuesday morning, next to the snow dump encampment. It’s a place he’d called home for three years. He didn’t want to leave, but the city said he had to — and now. It was abatement day. “Well, they don't have no place for us to go.
The man behind a North Slope oil renaissance says he’s found another hot prospect

1 week ago | alaskapublic.org | Wesley Early

An oil industry geologist credited with helping usher in a modern resurgence of resource extraction on the North Slope says he’s discovered a new area that could hold hundreds of millions of barrels of oil. Bill Armstrong, CEO of Armstrong Oil and Gas company, hopes his discovery of the Sockeye-2 area near the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will lead to increased oil production on the North Slope.
Crews scramble after heat, dry lightning spark multiple Alaska wildfires

1 week ago | alaskapublic.org | Tim Ellis

This year's fire season started slowly due to cool and rainy weather, but it roared to life last week with near-record heat and Red Flag warnings in effect around the Interior and elsewhere in the state. "As of Monday afternoon, we've had 13 new fires in the last 24 hours statewide, and 118 fires have burned 3,100 acres," says Beth Ipsen, an Alaska Fire Service spokesperson.