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Sep 07 2018

Western Alaska still has state’s highest rate of reported felony sex crimes

By Avery Lill, KDLG-Dillingham | Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence, Western

More than twice as many felony sex offenses are reported per capita in western Alaska than in the rest of the state, according to the Alaska Department of Public Safety.

By Avery Lill, KDLG-Dillingham | September 7, 2018 4:00 am

Sep 06 2018

Produce company celebrates 40 years of bringing produce to Southeast

By Emily Kwong, KCAW-Sitka | Food, Southeast

For the past forty years, Dave Kensinger and his wife Mona Christian have been running Chelan Produce Co., bringing fruits and vegetables to Petersburg and Sitka. It all began with an apple.

By Emily Kwong, KCAW-Sitka | September 6, 2018 1:19 pm

Sep 06 2018

New Trooper report shows Alaska drug problem worsening

By Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media | Alcohol & Substance Abuse, Crime & Courts

Troopers point to collaboration with partners as its principal means for combating a growing demand with diminished resources for policing.

By Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media | September 6, 2018 11:15 am

Aug 29 2018

Kodiak farm bears fruit, residents hope to keep it going

By Daysha Eaton, KMXT-Kodiak | Business, Community, Food, Southcentral

Nuniaq Farm sells locally grown produce. The federal grant that has funded the project runs out soon but Old Harbor hopes to keep the farm going with volunteers.

By Daysha Eaton, KMXT-Kodiak | August 29, 2018 2:12 pm

Aug 27 2018

Locals catch and chow down on invasive species in Kodiak

By Kayla Desroches, KMXT-Kodiak | Environment, Fisheries, Food, Southcentral

An informal sport fishery has popped up in Kodiak. For crawdads. They’re crustaceans that look like little lobsters, and they’re native to the Pacific Northwest, but not Alaska. In 2002, they were found scuttling along the bottom of a popular…

By Kayla Desroches, KMXT-Kodiak | August 27, 2018 10:04 am

Aug 26 2018

Clonazepam (traded as Klonopin), diazepam (Valium) and alprazolam (Xanax) are among the class of widely prescribed anti-anxiety medications known as benzodiazepines. Addiction treatment experts say teens are abusing the drugs and mixing them with opioids and alcohol. (Photo by Pew Charitable Trusts)

Teen Xanax abuse is surging

By Christine Vestal, Stateline | Alcohol & Substance Abuse, Health, Nation & World

Teen drug use during the summer often goes unnoticed. It’s when school starts and students nod off in class, exchange pills in the hallways and fail tests that the truth becomes apparent.

By Christine Vestal, Stateline | August 26, 2018 5:30 pm

Aug 24 2018

U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington last July. The Mayo Clinic announced that same month that he had been diagnosed with brain cancer. (Photo by Cliff Owen/Associated Press)

McCain will discontinue medical treatment for brain cancer

By Laurel Wamsley, NPR | Health, Nation & World, National News, NPR News

The Arizona senator said last July that he had an aggressive glioblastoma. “The progress of disease and the inexorable advance of age render their verdict,” his family said in a statement.

By Laurel Wamsley, NPR | August 24, 2018 9:26 am

Aug 21 2018

Multi-state salmonella outbreak linked to the drug Kratom

By Erin McKinstry, Alaska Public Media | 2 Alaska, Health

An investigation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found that the drug Kratom caused nearly 200 cases of salmonella in 41 states — including two Alaska cases. The outbreak occurred between January 2017 and May 2018.

By Erin McKinstry, Alaska Public Media | August 21, 2018 3:58 pm

Aug 21 2018

Mission Objective Outdoors Vice President Brian Leipold. (from Mission Objective Outdoors Facebook Page)

Non-profit brings veterans with disabilities to Skagway for weekend of excursions

By Henry Leasia, KHNS-Haines | Community, Health, Military, Outdoors, Southeast

A Skagway non-profit will host a group of wounded veterans from Fairbanks for a weekend of nature excursions this September. Mission Objective Outdoors was created earlier this year to provide support for veterans with disabilities and challenge them to be active in the great outdoors.

By Henry Leasia, KHNS-Haines | August 21, 2018 10:55 am

Aug 20 2018

Kunniak’s original Salt and Spice mixture next to a plate of bowhead whale. She now carries 11 different flavors, including “Black Lava” and “Ghost Blend.” (Photo by Erin McKinstry/Alaska Public Media)

Kunniak’s Spices brings new flavors to Native dishes

By Erin McKinstry, Alaska Public Media | 2 Alaska, Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Arts & Culture, Food, Subsistence

The company’s owner, Kunniak Hopson, moved to Chugiak 11 years ago from Utqiaġvik, which she calls Barrow. When she was growing up, her family always put McCormick’s Salt ‘n Spice on maktak, which is frozen whale blubber and skin. But McCormick’s stopped making it and she had to find an alternative.

By Erin McKinstry, Alaska Public Media | August 20, 2018 8:34 am

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Comedian, actor, and writer Tig Notaro digs through life’s most absurd and awkward, and transforms droll into dynamite. Rolling Stone named her one of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time. A favorite on late-night talk shows and “This American Life”, the creator and star of the Amazon series “One Mississippi” is on-point and observational, understated yet spontaneous, to the effect that “you end up laughing at your own tension” — Elle. The breast cancer survivor announced her diagnosis during a now-legendary set at Largo — “Hello. Good evening. Hello. I have cancer. How are you?” — and later performed her HBO special topless following her double mastectomy. If you’re a comedy nerd or someone who loves wry, dry humor, Tig will leave you in tears of laughter. No question.

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Western Alaska still has state’s highest rate of reported felony sex crimes

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Teen Xanax abuse is surging

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