An Alaska Marine Lines barge that was taking on water off the coast of British Columbia has continued its journey south to Seattle. The barge was spotted floating lower than normal last week near Bella Bella, about 260 miles south of Ketchikan.

In the screen adaptation, the title characters, Ch’idzigyaak and Sa’, speak to each other in Gwich’in. In fact, the film is entirely in the Athabascan language, which is considered severely endangered. (From KUAC - Fairbanks)

KYUK, the station that kept dozens of Western Alaska villages informed during Typhoon Halong, is now cutting staff after losing all federal funding.

Anchorage election administrator Liz Edwards said the voting system has been in place since April, and was not a “first of its scale” experiment the city was about to conduct, as the Times reported. https://akpub.io/3LMkM6J

The electric utility for the Anchorage area has approved plans to build what could be largest solar farm in Alaska, near the village of Tyonek.

Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport is among 40 airports across the country forced to slash air traffic by 10% starting Friday as the government shutdown continues.

Alaska regional air carrier Kenai Aviation shut down operations abruptly on Monday, citing financial insolvency.

Followed up with the Coast Guard on this— they sent a statement saying, “the VHF-FM marine radio will not be down the entire 96 hours. It will experience a brief interruption, lasting only 3-5 minutes, during a scheduled upgrade within that 96-hour time frame.” www.kfsk.org/2025/11/03/c...

The news comes amid the Trump administration’s effort to dramatically slash federal spending – including by proposed cuts to key weather and climate programs within NOAA. (From KHNS - Haines)

A friendly reminder that tonight we "fall back" one hour. While setting clocks that don't do it on their own, change your smoke detector & NOAA Weather Radio batteries too!

I need you to know that the Knights of Ni have been accused of Medicaid fraud: alaskabeacon.com/briefs/alask... #akleg #Alaska

A seal that was rescued near Petersburg returned home last week to be released into the wild! Bravo the seal was welcomed back by a crowd of more than a hundred people. www.kfsk.org/2025/10/28/s...

It looks like the photos didn’t quite come through… let’s try that again.

More than 66,000 Alaskans will lose food stamps within weeks if government shutdown continues, the state of Alaska is warning, writes James Brooks (@alaska.bsky.social) for the @alaskaaeacon.com. alaskabeacon.com/briefs/more-...

Some 90% of the structures in Kipnuk were destroyed by the storm, along with 35% of buildings in Kwigillingok, according to the state Department of Transportation and Public Facilities. (From @alaskapublic.org)

Folks have been focused on the developing disaster in southwest Alaska, but America's farthest-west community is suffering, too: Adak has been without power for two weeks because of problems with the local generator. www.kucb.org/regional/202...

"It's been a really mixed bag of emotions to be doing important work and trying to get the vital information that people need about disaster relief," @sgsmly.bsky.social of KYUK told PBS News Hour's Geoff Bennett. "My position itself will be going to five hours a week in the beginning of the year."

Sage Smiley, news director of KYUK in Bethel @sgsmly.bsky.social briefs NPR on the evacuation and devastation of western Alaska. People are not just displaced from their homes but also their traditional ways of life. www.npr.org/2025/10/16/n...

A U.S. Coast Guard commander compared the devastation in Southwest Alaska villages over the weekend to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. “This took people into peril, where folks were swimming, floating, trying to find debris to hold onto in the cover of darkness," Capt. Culpepper said.

If you’re in Petersburg, Cooper Landing, Seward, Ketchikan, Tok, Unalaska, Soldotna, Skagway, and Bethel, you should get free access to a news database through your library! There are 20+ Alaska news publications in there, including many that are normally paywalled. www.kfsk.org/2025/10/13/g...

Some residents are reportedly unaccounted for or trapped in houses as a major storm brings high water and winds to some Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta communities. The storm is expected to move north and continue into Monday.

The resolution also asks the federal government to loosen regulations for how Alaska Native subsistence hunters can use harvested sea otters. (From KFSK - Petersburg)

Here are four graphics that show how much the PFD's purchasing power has changed over the years. UAA economist Brett Watson says they tell us "as much about how we think about inflation or the things that we buy as it does about the dividend itself."

For those in southeast #Alaska watching the wind & rain weather system, @nws.noaa.gov Juneau has a live #akwx update on the hurricane force low storm system at 8:30am on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/ZJ3GOJY...

For years, a national database that tracks and maps landslides has had a major hole: Alaska. But that’s about to change.

A storm moving through Southeast Alaska is causing high winds that will continue into Wednesday evening in Juneau. It’s resulting in power outages and fallen trees. Multiple cruise ships have canceled port calls.

Advocates say it’s finally time to connect Alaska’s largest city to bedroom communities to its north using commuter rail service. A proposal from the Alaska Commuter Rail Coalition is fairly straightforward, though it’s still unclear who will pay for it.

KFSK’s summer intern Hannah Weaver got the chance to head over to Coffman Cove on Prince of Wales Island recently. She put together many great radio pieces, including this story on the new disc golf course! www.kfsk.org/2025/08/15/f...

On Sunday, tens or hundreds of millions of tons of rock fell into Tracy Arm, a deep, narrow fjord south of Juneau popular with sightseers. It set off a colossal tsunami, stranding and nearly washing away a group of kayakers who had camped on a nearby island. alaskapublic.org/news/environ...

Happy Friday! Here’s a fun story I’ve been working on this week! www.kfsk.org/2025/08/08/c...

Alaska lawmakers voted today to overrode Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of some $51 million in state funding for public schools.

Petersburg’s police chief and his employer, the Petersburg Borough, have officially resolved a lawsuit over his statements during the COVID-19 pandemic with a $70,000 out-of-court settlement.

The Senate voted to approve a $9 billion rescission package aimed at clawing back money already allocated for public radio and television — a major step toward winding down nearly six decades of federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. https://n.pr/44QnXjT

Update: The Weather Service has lifted its tsunami advisory. No major waves were reported in any community.

Update: The Weather Service has downgraded its warning to an advisory.

Breaking: The National Weather Service has issued a tsunami warning for communities on the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island after a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck about 50 miles south of Sand Point.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 struck off of Alaska’s Aleutian chain on Wednesday, triggering a tsunami warning for coastal areas of the state.

In Kodiak, the largest community currently under a tsunami, warning, KMXT public radio is the most valuable source for information about what’s happening in the community and for emergency information relayed by city officials. #Alaska

While the U.S. Senate is voting to defund public broadcasting ... my colleagues at rural Alaska public radio stations are scrambling to help coastal residents understand the tsunami danger from a 6.6 mag earthquake that struck minutes ago in Sand Point/Aleutians East.

The Yukon River village of Galena is in the midst of a clean energy transformation that locals say will boost savings, build resilience and provide jobs.

The new Supreme Court decision has significant implications for Alaska in particular, because it is not among the states that have legal challenges against Trump’s executive order. (From @alaskabeacon.com)

The Alaska DMV would like you to know that those texts you’ve been getting demanding payment are, as you may have suspected, a scam.

One of my stories from Petersburg!

Dozens of the plastic bags have washed up near Juneau over the past week after a shipping container full of empty industrial-sized fish food bags fell off a barge heading from Baranof Island to the landfill in Petersburg. www.ktoo.org/2025/06/13/p...

Dunleavy cut $50.6 million from formula funding for public schools, equivalent to $200 in basic per-student funding, known as the base student allocation, trimming back a $700 increase lawmakers approved last month. #akleg That's one of several cuts -- read more: alaskapublic.org/news/educati...

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The U.S. Postal Service is set to increase rates next month for Alaska’s bypass mail program, which ships groceries and bulk goods across rural Alaska.

The village that people know as Newtok is basically a ghost town today, after the final residents left last fall. The next challenge is building enough housing at its new townsite, Mertarvik.

Interlibrary loans give rural Alaskans access to books that smaller libraries can't stock, sent from the Lower 48 if needed. But the service could be eliminated if federal funding isn't approved by the end of June, under Trump administration budget cuts.

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.