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Several staff at 2 Alaska newspapers resign over handling of article by parent company Carpenter Media Two reporters and two editors from the Peninsula Clarion and Homer News cited actions by their parent company in altering an article after pushback by a state lawmaker in their resignations.

A group of reporters and editors at two Kenai Peninsula newspapers are resigning over what they say was the handling of a recent article by their parent company, Carpenter Media Group, after it was criticized by a Republican state lawmaker.

RIP Robert Redford

1950s silent footage of women playing softball at Griffin Park in Fairbanks. Note the styles and hairdos. Via UAF's Alaska Film Archives. #alaskahistory #alaska

If memo #047 passes tonight, that would make $6,192,444 spent on hiring teachers from the $10M the district received after the Legislature overrode Gov. Dunleavy’s veto of HB 57.

ASD Chief HR Officer Marty Lang told the school board that all 20 teaching positions have been filled from the $2.6M appropriated on Aug. 5 to hire those 20 teachers.

122 vacancies remain, down from 148 at the start of last year.

The board will vote on another $3.5M for 27 more teachers shortly.

Bobby Bonilla Day : Planet Money How the worst deal in baseball explains one of the most important concepts in economics. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

Bobby Bonilla Day celebrates one of the worst deals in baseball history. In this episode, we go back to the year the Bobby Bonilla deal was made to find out how the Mets found themselves paying someone $29.8 million to not play baseball. Then we talk to the legend himself.

Circa 1960s Palmer postcard. #alaskahistory #alaska

Trump wants to cut funds to public media. Here’s what that could mean for 27 radio and 4 TV stations in Alaska. A memo set to appear before Congress on Monday will ask lawmakers to rescind $1.1 billion in funds that support public media nationwide and heavily subsidize public radio stations and television stati...

As the Trump administration works to end nearly all federal support for public broadcasting, the loss of that money for the state’s public radio and TV stations could jeopardize remote Alaskans’ access to news, and public safety.

Mid 20th-century Matanuska Maid ice cream cartons. Matanuska Maid closed in 2007. Via Anchorage Museum. #alaskahistory #alaska

Hey hey whaddaya say, what’s today? IT’S OPENING DAY!!!

'It's unreal': Jessie Holmes wins his first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race The Interior Alaska musher won his first Iditarod on his eighth try, arriving in Nome with his dog team early Friday.

Go read @ava-in-alaska.bsky.social ‘s story from Front St. in Nome about this year’s Iditarod Champion, Jessie Holmes!

(Also if you’re up early, tune into 91.1 in a few minutes to hear Ava’s stellar reporting that includes sounds from the finish line)

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Bethard, Sacred Heart set for school’s first taste of the NCAA DI tournament (plus AK DI stat updates) The Alaska Sports Report provides in-depth daily coverage of Alaska athletes.

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A Rural Alaska School Asked the State to Fund a Repair. Nearly Two Decades Later, the Building Is About to Collapse. Rural school districts depend on the state to fund construction and maintenance projects. But over the past 25 years, Alaska lawmakers have ignored hundreds of requests for public schools that primari...

Just under half of Alaska’s rural schools are owned by the state, which is required by law to pay for construction and maintenance projects. But the state has been an absentee landlord and problems have grown.

Iditarod ceremonial start draws eager dog teams, spectators and calls for ‘bootie bootie bootie’ - Anchorage Daily News Even as a lack of snow forced organizers to shorten the course to less than 2 miles, the crowds in downtown Anchorage brought the enthusiasm and energy that’s long been a hallmark of the ceremonial st...

Our updated story, with photos: Today's Iditarod ceremonial start drew eager dog teams, throngs of spectators and calls for "bootie bootie bootie" www.adn.com/outdoors-adv...

Coen Niclai (#1 overall player and catcher of Alaska) first homer as a Duck 💚💛

Oh, it's Pete Weber day?

The Anchorage School Board passed an $886M budget 6-1 tonight that cuts middle school sports, high school hockey, swimming and gymnastics and the IGNITE program for gifted students.

An amendment that passed details how $71M in additional funding would be spent, in the event of a $1,00 BSA increase.

With a $111M deficit, Anchorage School Board set to vote on ‘devastating’ budget Some positions and programs could be restored if the state adds funding. But the Anchorage School Board president warned that the longer it takes to sort out a funding package, the more difficult it b...

Some positions and programs could be restored if the state adds funding. But the Anchorage School Board president warned that the longer it takes to sort out a funding package, the more difficult it becomes to reverse some of the cuts. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

Cooper DeJean is NOT a safety

T swizzle followed by some Pink Pony Club at the P Bar. Who says Palmer isn’t cultured?!

Public speaks out against deep Anchorage School District cuts Students, staff and parents spoke in support of the IGNITE program and the school for deaf students.

If you have a kiddo in Anchorage schools or are impacted in any way by these cuts, consider filling out the prompt at the bottom of this story to tell us more about how.

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People should be required to pass a spatial awareness test before entering the eastside Costco

One hundred years ago, dogs came to the rescue of Nome “With the arrival of Gunnar Kaasen on Monday morning with the package containing 300,000 units of diphtheria antitoxin a great strain was lifted from the minds of many of the population of Nome,” r

100 years ago today, diphtheria antitoxin was moving through Interior Alaska on the way Nome by dog team rely. It was really cold, reportedly in the 60s below in places between Nenana and Kaltag. #Alaska #akwx

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@gavelalaska.bsky.social watching szn is BACK baby!

😂 Dying that the headline reads “It makes Texas a shrimp”

A community’s fight to save Unangam Tunuu on St. Paul Island Unangam Tunuu is taught in only a handful of classes in the public school system, and outside these sessions, the language is seldom spoken in everyday conversation.

Such a cool story (featuring fellow 2011 PHS grad George Pletnikoff) about Indigenous language revitalization on St. Paul Island!

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Two-time Olympic Gold Medalist Kristen Faulkner of Homer arrived back in Alaska today for the first time since her performance in Paris this summer.

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The Anchorage School Board voted to close two schools – Lake Hood and Nunaka Valley – as part of their right sizing plan Tuesday night.

Baxter and Fire Lake we’re removed from the list by amendments.