Representatives from the Alaska Energy Authority will be on the road for the next month trying hosting town halls across the state to find out what locals know about energy in their area. Eileen Goode spoke to Steve Haagenson about the program and how they hope to turn the knowledge from these energy meetings into solutions for Alaska's energy crisis.
The University of Alaska Fairbanks has appointed Brian Rogers its interim chancellor. KDLG's Eileen Goode spoke with UAF president Mark Hamilton about the school's selection and the unique challenges that Rogers and the eventual permanent chancellor face.
Elaine Green thinks that locally people are often eating unhealthy foods without even knowing it. She's trying to do something about that with a multi-week vegetarian cooking program to be hosted on Tuesdays at the Seventh Day Adventist Elementary School. Eileen Goode spoke with Green about the school, food health and why even non-vegetarians have something to learn about cooking from her program.
More than 100,000 people may be dead and millions homeless in Burma - also known as Myanmar - following the devastating cyclone that hit the Southeast Asian country this week. But the military government has made delivering aid difficult. Jeff Wright, a disaster relief specialist with Worldvision; and Tin Thaw, who works with the Burmese-American Buddhist community, give an update on international efforts to provide aid.
At least two U.N. planes carrying much-needed humanitarian supplies landed Thursday in Myanmar. But supplies from the United States are still being blocked from reaching victims of Cyclone Nargis. A U.S. disaster assistance response team also is grounded in Thailand.
Democrat Jake Metcalfe has withdrawn his candidacy for the US House of Representatives. He made the announcement this afternoon. It comes after weeks of controversy surrounding derogatory web sites allegedly set up by a former campaign advisor.
David Shurtleff, APRN - Anchorage
The political battle over high oil and gasoline prices continued in Congress today. Democrats unveiled a plan that calls for a trust fund to spur renewable sources, energy efficiency and consumer price protection. It would be paid for by slapping a windfall profits tax on oil companies and repealing $17 billion worth of oil [...]
Congressman Don Young used a bill aimed at generating money to improve national parks to push his proposal for opening the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to development. The parks bill authorizes ways to generate more public and private funding in the lead up to the National Park Serviceās 100th anniversary in [...]
As Anchorage speeds into the season when the moose start to drop their calves and the bears go on the prowl, the roadway that was to have been a model of how the city could design for wildlife is shaping up as anything but.
Morgan Hite secretly delivered a baby boy in a neighbor's bathtub, then wrapped him in a garbage bag, put him in a plastic tote and shelved the container in a bedroom closet at her family's Grand Junction, Colo., home, according to a police affidavit made public Wednesday.
Morgan Hite, 22, is currently being held on a fugitive from justice warrant. In Colorado she's accused of secretly giving birth in late February while visiting her parents and placing the infant in a plastic bag.
The trial for Adam Milazzo, charged with second degree murder, got underway in Anchorage Wednesday. He is accused of driving drunk, fleeing from police and causing a crash that left another man dead.
A change to a 2005 bill reallocated $10 million for roadwork in Florida, reportedly to benefit a political contributor of Representative Don Young of Alaska.