Thanks for the show, Mother Nature ✨
November 12, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Thanks for the show, Mother Nature ✨
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Histories of Alaska: Visitors have long used unique postcards to memorialize their travels to the 49th state, remarking on everything from dogs to the weather and the size of mosquitoes. Here's a sampling through the decades. www.adn.com/alaska-life/...
What tourists and newcomers thought about Alaska: Insults and compliments captured on postcards
From dogs to weather, visitors used unique postcards to memorialize their travels to the 49th state.
www.adn.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Histories of Alaska: Visitors have long used unique postcards to memorialize their travels to the 49th state, remarking on everything from dogs to the weather and the size of mosquitoes. Here's a sampling through the decades. www.adn.com/alaska-life/...
Anybody know what could make one’s allergies/hay fever run amok in Anchorage lately?
August 9, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Anybody know what could make one’s allergies/hay fever run amok in Anchorage lately?
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Currently, 42 Western radio stations are considered vulnerable because over 30% of their annual funding is federal. Twenty of those stations serve Indigenous communities in the rural reaches of reservations and Alaska Native villages.
(From @highcountrynews.org)
(From @highcountrynews.org)
Native languages need radio, which is at risk of being lost
As public media is threatened after cuts from Trump administration, Indigenous radio also face threats to how they preserve and grow language.
www.ktoo.org
August 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Currently, 42 Western radio stations are considered vulnerable because over 30% of their annual funding is federal. Twenty of those stations serve Indigenous communities in the rural reaches of reservations and Alaska Native villages.
(From @highcountrynews.org)
(From @highcountrynews.org)
Thanks (always) for providing coverage!
We're live with the Joint Legislative Session to consider overriding Gov. Dunleavy's vetoes. Proceedings are delayed a bit awaiting all members to arrive. Watch --> gavelalaska.org #akleg
Gavel Alaska
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August 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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And the legislature gets 45 votes to override the governor’s line item veto of $50m from the base student allocation funding.
Looks like Rep. Costello was the lone person to flip from the vote setting the base student allocation.
#akleg
Looks like Rep. Costello was the lone person to flip from the vote setting the base student allocation.
#akleg
August 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Proud of my boss. 🙌
Months after stroke-like illness, an Alaska state senator is still recovering, reports James Brooks, @alaska.bsky.social, of @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/2025/07/31/m... #akleg
Months after stroke-like illness, an Alaska state senator is still recovering | Alaska Beacon
Sen. Donny Olson will be among dozens of legislators returning to the Capitol for this weekend’s special session.
alaskabeacon.com
August 2, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Proud of my boss. 🙌
Pouring one out for the latest bill vetoed by the gov: SB156. While I’m agnostic about the legislation that comes before SFin, it still stings to see things the committee worked on ultimately fail. This bill passed the legislature 59-1.
July 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Pouring one out for the latest bill vetoed by the gov: SB156. While I’m agnostic about the legislation that comes before SFin, it still stings to see things the committee worked on ultimately fail. This bill passed the legislature 59-1.
It’s a miracle nobody was hurt (or killed) when the lines snapped. What a strange weather event and quick response by the crews on the ships.
Coast Guard investigates storm-caused near-collision between two cruise ships in Juneau, reports James Brooks, @alaska.bsky.social, of @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/briefs/coast...
Coast Guard investigates storm-caused near-collision between two cruise ships in Juneau | Alaska Beacon
No one was injured when the Celebrity Cruise Lines ship broke free of its moorings and drifted toward another ship, the Coast Guard said.
alaskabeacon.com
June 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
It’s a miracle nobody was hurt (or killed) when the lines snapped. What a strange weather event and quick response by the crews on the ships.
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Why are so many Americans viscerally anti-immigrant?
1990: They are taking 'our' jobs
2000: They are here for public welfare
2010: They are committing crimes
Reality: they did not take anyone's job, they pay more into system then they take, they commit crimes at a lower rate.
Answer: skin color
1990: They are taking 'our' jobs
2000: They are here for public welfare
2010: They are committing crimes
Reality: they did not take anyone's job, they pay more into system then they take, they commit crimes at a lower rate.
Answer: skin color
JUST IN: The Supreme Court allows Trump administration to end humanitarian status for some migrants.
Supreme Court allows Trump administration to end humanitarian status for some migrants
The move to grant a stay in the case means that the Cubans, Haitian, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who were granted temporary parole under the program known as CHNV would lose their temporary legal status to be in the U.S.
n.pr
May 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Why are so many Americans viscerally anti-immigrant?
1990: They are taking 'our' jobs
2000: They are here for public welfare
2010: They are committing crimes
Reality: they did not take anyone's job, they pay more into system then they take, they commit crimes at a lower rate.
Answer: skin color
1990: They are taking 'our' jobs
2000: They are here for public welfare
2010: They are committing crimes
Reality: they did not take anyone's job, they pay more into system then they take, they commit crimes at a lower rate.
Answer: skin color
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An 8-year-old Hammond’s flycatcher that arrived in Fairbanks surpasses the previous oldest recorded bird of its species, science writer Ned Rozell explains in his latest column.
An old winged friend returns to the far north
An 8-year-old Hammond’s flycatcher that arrived in Fairbanks surpasses the previous oldest recorded bird of its species, one that was 7 years old when biologists banded and captured her in Oregon.
www.adn.com
May 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
An 8-year-old Hammond’s flycatcher that arrived in Fairbanks surpasses the previous oldest recorded bird of its species, science writer Ned Rozell explains in his latest column.
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Tanacross #Dene #Language #Alaska
Migratory birds have returned to Interior Alaska.
tsuugaay "small songbirds"
k’elaxdihtsogh "yellow warbler"
ché’ delgez "arctic tern"
kets’iht’ón’ "swallow"
ts’est’ûud "dark-eyed junco"
mehk’ą̂ąy "mew gull"
ntsiiɬ "northern flicker"
tsidaanmbiidh "crossbill"
Migratory birds have returned to Interior Alaska.
tsuugaay "small songbirds"
k’elaxdihtsogh "yellow warbler"
ché’ delgez "arctic tern"
kets’iht’ón’ "swallow"
ts’est’ûud "dark-eyed junco"
mehk’ą̂ąy "mew gull"
ntsiiɬ "northern flicker"
tsidaanmbiidh "crossbill"
May 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Juneau’s Empty Chair memorial for city residents who were taken away as part of America’s Japanese internment program in 1942, has been covered in paper cranes. #Alaska
May 9, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Juneau’s Empty Chair memorial for city residents who were taken away as part of America’s Japanese internment program in 1942, has been covered in paper cranes. #Alaska
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Tessa Hulls was making sandwiches in the Alaska Capitol when she learned she had won a Pulitzer Prize. thealaskacurrent.com/2025/05/06/f...
From Alaska Capitol’s cafeteria, author and illustrator claims Pulitzer Prize - The Alaska Current
Tessa Hull’s ‘Feeding Ghosts’ was awarded the prize for memoirs and biographies.
thealaskacurrent.com
May 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Tessa Hulls was making sandwiches in the Alaska Capitol when she learned she had won a Pulitzer Prize. thealaskacurrent.com/2025/05/06/f...
Juneau friends! Check this out
Feeding Ghosts book talk with Tessa Hulls!
Tuesday, May 6th at 5:30pm
Tuesday, May 6th at 5:30pm
May 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Juneau friends! Check this out
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University of Alaska officials confirmed Monday that the four impacted UA students now have restored status in the federal Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, or SEVIS.
(From @alaskapublic.org)
(From @alaskapublic.org)
University of Alaska international students' records restored as Trump administration backs down on visa revocations
A flurry of lawsuits followed the Trump administration's crackdown on thousands of foreign students' visas and records.
www.ktoo.org
April 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
University of Alaska officials confirmed Monday that the four impacted UA students now have restored status in the federal Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, or SEVIS.
(From @alaskapublic.org)
(From @alaskapublic.org)
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Jean Kashikov, a citizen of Kazakhstan who began studying in Alaska on a student visa in 2019, is one of at least four UAA students or recent graduates who abruptly lost their visas in recent days.
4 international students in Alaska lose visas ‘without prior warning’ amid Trump administration crackdown
One of the students is Jean Kashikov, a citizen of Kazakhstan who began studying at UAA on a student visa in 2019 and planned to spend one year working in Alaska as a flight instructor.
www.adn.com
April 15, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Jean Kashikov, a citizen of Kazakhstan who began studying in Alaska on a student visa in 2019, is one of at least four UAA students or recent graduates who abruptly lost their visas in recent days.
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Federal government puts Ketchikan, Anchorage buildings on list for potential sale, reports James Brooks, @alaska.bsky.social, of @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/briefs/feder...
Federal government puts Ketchikan, Anchorage buildings on list for potential sale • Alaska Beacon
Three Alaska federal buildings and one parking lot are on a list of hundreds of properties eyed by the Trump administration for sale.
alaskabeacon.com
March 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Federal government puts Ketchikan, Anchorage buildings on list for potential sale, reports James Brooks, @alaska.bsky.social, of @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/briefs/feder...
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Here's an image made with 2358 photos from last night for those that don't have the time to watch an entire timelapse.
November 12, 2024 at 1:36 AM
Here's an image made with 2358 photos from last night for those that don't have the time to watch an entire timelapse.