Archives for April 2013

The University of Alaska Southeast campus in Juneau is planning to award 349 degrees, certificates and occupational endorsements in May. That’s 60 more than the previous year.

Noted Juneau artist Constance Baltuck has generously donated her piece titled “Waterfall, Salmon Creek,” to create a limited edition print in celebration of KTOO’s 40th anniversary year.  All proceeds from the sale of these prints will help support KTOO’s programming. To order a signed and numbered print for your own collection, click here.

First pitch festivities and games are now scheduled for Saturday, May 4th at Adair Kennedy Field in the Mendenhall Valley. It was scheduled for Saturday, which is expected to be another wet day with snow possible in the morning.

Dying on the job continues at a steady pace according to the latest statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

Rescue workers are still hoping to find survivors from the collapse of an eight-story garment factory in Bangladesh that has killed more than 300 people and left hundreds missing.

South Korea has ordered the withdrawal of its workers from a jointly run industrial zone in North Korea, in a further sign of how relations have gone from bad to worse between the two countries in recent weeks.

One year after glamour quarterbacks were the big story, NFL teams mostly opted for big, beefy, bruisers during Round One of the 2013 NFL draft Thursday night.

A White House official reiterated much of what was in the letter sent to Capitol Hill, but added that “all options were on the table in terms of our response.” The official said that reports of the use of chemical weapons in Aleppo in March was one of the incidents being examined.