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Dec 04 2018

Donna Zibell shows off the cake she baked for Gov. Mike Dunleavy's inauguration celebration in Noorvik, Dec. 3, 2018. (Photo by Andrew Kitchenman/KTOO and Alaska Public Media)

Dunleavy swearing-in obstacles don’t stop Noorvik inauguration feast

By Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO and Alaska Public Media | Arctic, Northwest, State Government

Fog prevented Mike Dunleavy from being sworn in as governor in Noorvik. But that didn’t stop the community from celebrating.

By Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO and Alaska Public Media | December 4, 2018 11:36 am

Dec 03 2018

Update: Dunleavy sworn in as governor in Kotzebue

By Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO and Alaska Public Media | Arctic, Northwest, Politics, State Government

Dunelavy was sworn in at the Kotzebue Middle School — a deviation from the original plan to conduct the swearing-in in Noorvik, 40 miles east of Kotzebue.

By Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO and Alaska Public Media | December 3, 2018 4:00 am

Nov 29 2018

Workers sort opilio crab at the UniSea plant in Unalaska. Company officials have said they're hoping to employ four inmates during the winter fishing season.

Unalaska OKs trial program to employ prison inmates at fish plant

By Laura Kraegel, KUCB-Unalaska | Aleutians, Crime & Courts, Fisheries, Northwest, State Government

Unalaska City Council’s five-to-one vote overturned last month’s narrow rejection of the program, authorizing a “trial run” for four inmates to live and work at the UniSea fish processing plant.

By Laura Kraegel, KUCB-Unalaska | November 29, 2018 4:06 pm

Nov 27 2018

As ocean heats up off Northwest Alaska, the fishing does too

By Nat Herz, Alaska's Energy Desk | Alaska's Energy Desk, Arctic, Climate Change, Economy, Environment, Fisheries, Northwest, Oceans, Science & Tech, Weather

This year’s commercial harvest of chum salmon in Kotzebue Sound was nearly 700,000 fish, breaking a record nearly four decades old. To the south, the value of the commercial salmon catch in Norton Sound was also the highest ever.

By Nat Herz, Alaska's Energy Desk | November 27, 2018 5:05 pm

Nov 16 2018

Dunleavy inaugural celebration schedule announced

By Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO and Alaska Public Media | Interior, Juneau, Northwest, Southcentral, State Government

The transition team said Alaskans can expect a combination of formal events and less formal, family-centered events across the state in December.

By Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO and Alaska Public Media | November 16, 2018 3:13 pm

Nov 10 2018

Gov.-elect Mike Dunleavy talks with family members on election night. His wife Rose Dunleavy, center, is from Noorvik, where Mike Dunleavy will be sworn in as governor on Dec. 3. Nov. 6, 2018. (Photo by Andrew Kitchenman/KTOO and Alaska Public Media)

Dunleavy to be sworn in as governor in Noorvik

By Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO and Alaska Public Media | Northwest, Southcentral, State Government

The village, about 40 miles from Kotzebue, is where his wife Rose Dunleavy is from.

By Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO and Alaska Public Media | November 10, 2018 10:05 pm

Nov 08 2018

Gov.-elect Mike Dunleavy speaks to the Alaska Miners Association about his plans for his administration. He named Tuckerman Babcock to be his chief of staff and transition chairman. (Photo by Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media)

Dunleavy names Alaska Republican chairman as his chief of staff

By Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO and Alaska Public Media | Business, Energy & Mining, Interior, Northwest, State Government

In his first public appearance since Election Day, the governor-elect also named his former campaign manager as his senior policy adviser, and he told mining industry leaders that Alaska is open for business.

By Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO and Alaska Public Media | November 8, 2018 5:53 pm

Oct 28 2018

Oregon State University oceanographer Jack Barth deploys a glider that will spend weeks at sea collecting data on everything from dissolved oxygen levels to temperature. "When we used to think about hypoxia in the ocean, we think about little areas. But now what we're looking at is...out in the ocean, there's low oxygen...all along the coast," he says. (Photo by Kristian Foden-Vencil/NPR)

Coastal pacific oxygen levels now plummet once a year

By Kristian Foden-Vencil, NPR | Climate Change, Fisheries, Northwest, NPR News, Oceans

The hypoxia season hits Oregon, Washington and California waters in the summer and can last from a few days to a couple of months. Some years it only affects a few square miles of ocean; other years it’s thousands of square miles.

By Kristian Foden-Vencil, NPR | October 28, 2018 1:51 pm

Oct 24 2018

A solar project in rural Alaska takes aim at sky-high electric bills

By Nat Herz, Alaska's Energy Desk | Alaska's Energy Desk, Energy & Mining, Environment, Northwest

A new renewable energy project in Buckland aims to demonstrate solar and wind power’s potential to reduce the region’s sky-high utility costs.

By Nat Herz, Alaska's Energy Desk | October 24, 2018 12:43 pm

Oct 16 2018

Rural Alaska prepares to kick off 2020 US census

By Anna Rose MacArthur, KYUK-Bethel | Northwest

One of the most important tools for ensuring government representation and the distribution of federal funds relies on neighbors counting neighbors.

By Anna Rose MacArthur, KYUK-Bethel | October 16, 2018 1:00 pm

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Dunleavy swearing-in obstacles don’t stop Noorvik inauguration feast

Update: Dunleavy sworn in as governor in Kotzebue

Unalaska OKs trial program to employ prison inmates at fish plant

As ocean heats up off Northwest Alaska, the fishing does too

Dunleavy inaugural celebration schedule announced

Dunleavy to be sworn in as governor in Noorvik

Dunleavy names Alaska Republican chairman as his chief of staff

Coastal pacific oxygen levels now plummet once a year

A solar project in rural Alaska takes aim at sky-high electric bills

Rural Alaska prepares to kick off 2020 US census

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