Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.The first two months of this pandemic were miserable for Laile Fairbairn, not to mention her employees. Fairbairn is an owner and manager of a group of four Anchorage restaurants – Snow City Café, Crush, the Spenard Roadhouse and South Restaurant + Coffeehouse. She had to lay off most of the staff. The restaurants closed for a month, she said, and then they had to figure out how to safely reopen.“The anxiety was just so intense and not really knowing how to deal with it all,” she...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.The first two months of this pandemic were miserable for Laile Fairbairn, not to mention her employees. Fairbairn is an owner and manager of a group of four Anchorage restaurants – Snow City Café, Crush, the Spenard Roadhouse and South Restaurant + Coffeehouse. She had to lay off most of the staff. The restaurants closed for a month, she said, and then they had to figure out how to safely reopen.“The anxiety was just so intense and not really knowing how to deal with it all,” she...WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Palmer’s police chief returned to work Monday after a nearly three-week suspension over Facebook posts he made calling the Black Lives Matter movement a “hate group” and, separately, questioning the legitimacy of sexual assault reports.amid widespread protests against racism and police use of excessive force in the wake of George Floyd’s death.The City of Palmer had described Shelton’s comments as “inappropriate.”Shelton apologized in a written statement from the City of Palmer on...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Palmer’s police chief returned to work Monday after a nearly three-week suspension over Facebook posts he made calling the Black Lives Matter movement a “hate group” and, separately, questioning the legitimacy of sexual assault reports.amid widespread protests against racism and police use of excessive force in the wake of George Floyd’s death.The City of Palmer had described Shelton’s comments as “inappropriate.”Shelton apologized in a written statement from the City of Palmer on...WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Alaska’s senior U.S. senator found herself the target of presidential tweets Thursday, after she endorsed a blistering denouncement of Donald Trump and praised the political courage it takes to speak out against him.Sen. Lisa Murkowski spoke about former Defense Secretary James Mattis’s critique of the president to reporters from CNN, Politico and the Washington Post, in an impromptu interview at the U.S. Capitol. And though she said she’s still struggling to decide if she will...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Alaska’s senior U.S. senator found herself the target of presidential tweets Thursday, after she endorsed a blistering denouncement of Donald Trump and praised the political courage it takes to speak out against him.Sen. Lisa Murkowski spoke about former Defense Secretary James Mattis’s critique of the president to reporters from CNN, Politico and the Washington Post, in an impromptu interview at the U.S. Capitol. And though she said she’s still struggling to decide if she will...WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Alaska businesses can open at full capacity on Friday and sports can resume, Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced Tuesday evening. “Friday, we’re open for business across the state of Alaska,” Dunleavy said at a news conference. Alaska will enter phase three and four of the government’s five-phase simultaneously at 8 a.m. Friday. That means restaurants, bars, gyms, retail shops and other businesses can fully open. All churches, libraries and museums can too. Sports and...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Alaska businesses can open at full capacity on Friday and sports can resume, Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced Tuesday evening. “Friday, we’re open for business across the state of Alaska,” Dunleavy said at a news conference. Alaska will enter phase three and four of the government’s five-phase simultaneously at 8 a.m. Friday. That means restaurants, bars, gyms, retail shops and other businesses can fully open. All churches, libraries and museums can too. Sports and...WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Alaska’s largest rural airline is $90 million in debt and could be forced to sell its assets and shut down permanently, putting rural travel and supply lines in peril unless the government or new investors come to the aid of the bankrupt company, according to documents filed in federal court.As the coronavirus pandemic batters the aviation industry, the teetering RavnAir Group may have obtained a $12 million loan that leaves “some hope that there may still be a rescue,” Tobias...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Alaska’s largest rural airline is $90 million in debt and could be forced to sell its assets and shut down permanently, putting rural travel and supply lines in peril unless the government or new investors come to the aid of the bankrupt company, according to documents filed in federal court.As the coronavirus pandemic batters the aviation industry, the teetering RavnAir Group may have obtained a $12 million loan that leaves “some hope that there may still be a rescue,” Tobias...WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.The Alaska Department of Fish and Game said Friday that it’s searching for a troublesome black bear in East Anchorage’s Russian Jack Springs Park. The bear has recently gained a reputation for charging people and following kids at camp.LISTEN TO THIS STORY: Six-year-old twins Ethan and August Shroyer remember yelling when they spotted a black bear last Wednesday at day camp.“I tried to be brave,” Ethan said, “but my bones were shaking like I was scared.”Ethan and August were...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.The Alaska Department of Fish and Game said Friday that it’s searching for a troublesome black bear in East Anchorage’s Russian Jack Springs Park. The bear has recently gained a reputation for charging people and following kids at camp.LISTEN TO THIS STORY: Six-year-old twins Ethan and August Shroyer remember yelling when they spotted a black bear last Wednesday at day camp.“I tried to be brave,” Ethan said, “but my bones were shaking like I was scared.”Ethan and August were...WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Pebble CEO Tom Collier thought he was talking to a pair of potential investors in the Pebble Mine, a controversial project at the headwaters of Bristol Bay. Collier told the pair they don’t have to worry about Alaska’s U.S. senators blocking the project. Lisa Murkowski had that the mine proposal did not meet environmental standards, but Collier said she’s just trying to satisfy constituents on both sides of the issue. “The way that Sen. Murkowski has done that is that when...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Pebble CEO Tom Collier thought he was talking to a pair of potential investors in the Pebble Mine, a controversial project at the headwaters of Bristol Bay. Collier told the pair they don’t have to worry about Alaska’s U.S. senators blocking the project. Lisa Murkowski had that the mine proposal did not meet environmental standards, but Collier said she’s just trying to satisfy constituents on both sides of the issue. “The way that Sen. Murkowski has done that is that when...WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Southcentral Alaska is awash in gold and red, as temperatures slowly drop and winter approaches. Here are some images that capture the feelings and colors of September 2020.© Alaska Public Media 2022. All rights reserved.…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Southcentral Alaska is awash in gold and red, as temperatures slowly drop and winter approaches. Here are some images that capture the feelings and colors of September 2020.© Alaska Public Media 2022. All rights reserved.WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.A judge issued temporarily blocking Alaska elections officials from printing more ballots after a U.S. Congressional candidate’s lawsuit raised “clear and very significant questions” about whether a new ballot design is illegal.Later in the day, state elections officials asking the Alaska Supreme Court to intervene. The 95-page motion says the state faces a Friday deadline under federal law to mail ballots to military and overseas voters, although that law, the Uniformed and...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.A judge issued temporarily blocking Alaska elections officials from printing more ballots after a U.S. Congressional candidate’s lawsuit raised “clear and very significant questions” about whether a new ballot design is illegal.Later in the day, state elections officials asking the Alaska Supreme Court to intervene. The 95-page motion says the state faces a Friday deadline under federal law to mail ballots to military and overseas voters, although that law, the Uniformed and...WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Historic wildfires in Siberia are causing haze and worsening air quality in Southcentral and Eastern Alaska.While air quality is still in the healthy range, according to the , it appears to be slowly getting worse. Division of Forestry spokesperson Tim Mowry said that he started getting calls about smoke this morning from observers in Anchorage and Palmer to as far away as Tok and Northway.SEE ALSO:“There’s nothing in Alaska or Canada that is responsible for this, and Siberia...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Historic wildfires in Siberia are causing haze and worsening air quality in Southcentral and Eastern Alaska.While air quality is still in the healthy range, according to the , it appears to be slowly getting worse. Division of Forestry spokesperson Tim Mowry said that he started getting calls about smoke this morning from observers in Anchorage and Palmer to as far away as Tok and Northway.SEE ALSO:“There’s nothing in Alaska or Canada that is responsible for this, and Siberia...WW…