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McKinley Fire close to 50 percent contained, evacuation levels lowered; 'Do they know that it's that bad?' Drivers describe 'hellfire' on Sterling Highway Sunday; Kennicott rescues boat passengers in Canada’s Inside Passage; Dunleavy sends letter encouraging potential Pebble investor; Rockslide blocks Pogo mine entrance; Water shortage looms in Chignik Lagoon; Dunleavy appoints 2 new members to human rights commission; In Alaska, Education Secretary DeVos touts alternative schooling agenda; Veteran musher Jim Lanier denied entry into 2020 Iditarod; Southeast Alaska’s summer chums returned much lower than expected; Elim residents ride on new roads; Kawerak says they’ll improve quality of life The post Alaska News Nightly: Monday, Aug. 26, 2019 appeared first on Alaska Public Media.

51 homes burned from McKinley fire, 3 businesses, 80 outbuildings; Large chunk of Southcentral deemed an 'extreme drought' area for the first time; Poll by anti-tax Gov. Dunleavy shows Alaskans, narrowly, favoring more taxes; GOP sends 3 nominees for vacant Alaska Senate seat; Once vetoed by Dunleavy, funding for Alaska’s arts council is back in the budget; ConocoPhillips' next big oil project in Alaska takes another step forward; Unalakleet’s water troubles persist; city looks for long-term solution; Lawsuit blames fatal Butte home fire on gas company, owners; 2 Juneau 13-year-olds in custody after alleged school shooting threat; New transportation bill could reinstate funding for the Shakwak Project; At the moment, Donlin Gold isn't building a mine. But it is building a church The post Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Aug. 23, 2019 appeared first on Alaska Public Media.

The latest on Southcentral wildfires: Aug. 22, 2019; Volunteers remain hopeful, as Levelock Fire reaches 5% containment; Experts: It’s heat and drought, not spruce beetles or leaf miners, that turned Alaska forests into kindling; Budget cuts rely on Medicaid savings that will be difficult to achieve; State agricultural workers react to restorations, and vetoes, from Dunleavy; Diocese of Juneau finds ‘credible evidence’ of sexual misconduct by Southeast Alaska priests; Alaska rolls back air ambulance ‘membership plan’ regulations; Bethel Iditarod champion Pete Kaiser to deliver 2019 AFN keynote address; Wrangell aims to put itself on the virtual map The post Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019 appeared first on Alaska Public Media.

'Pride' and 'sadness' for local Alaska crews who saved some homes from wildfires, and saw others burn; Caribou Lake Fire grows to 700 acres overnight; Swan Lake Fire pushes Cooper Landing's smoky air quality off the charts, literally; Pentagon scraps Fort Greely missile plan; Will EPA veto Pebble? Boss of agency says it’s not his call; Trump’s path to ‘energy dominance’ in Alaska hits a key obstacle: lawyers; Veto to debt reimbursement could raise your tax bill; To bolster financial options for refugees, a state program works to get them into farming The post Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019 appeared first on Alaska Public Media.

Alaska wildfire officials reassess cause of McKinley fire; ‘Nothing survived. It’s just ash.’ In a trickle of information, fire evacuees learn fate of homes; Wildfires crimp Alaska’s major transportation corridor, halting tourist operations, delaying groceries; 5,000-acre fire continues to burn outside Levelock; Dunleavy repeats calls for closing budget gap, paying full dividends; University of Alaska regents vote to end financial exigency; EPA hears testimony on air plan; Alaskan Joe Balash resigns as assistant secretary of Interior; Dunleavy vetoes ferry funding added by the Legislature in the wake of cuts; Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Tara Sweeney visits Nome to discuss public safety The post Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019 appeared first on Alaska Public Media.

Southcentral fires burn, traffic at a crawl on highways, evacuees tell of heavy smoke and flames; Heavy winds breath new life into Swan Lake Fire; Smoke from Southcentral blazes creating unhealthy air conditions in Anchorage; This August is extremely abnormal, and fire likes it; Governor says third special session would focus on full dividend after allowing $1,600 PFD to stand ; Proposed Fair Share Act would raise taxes on oil companies; Alaska’s Planned Parenthood chapter withdraws from federal family planning program; Organizations partner to teach more Anchorage kids how to fish; ‘Molly of Denali’ creators help Juneau kids find their own voices The post Alaska News Nightly: Monday, Aug. 19, 2019 appeared first on Alaska Public Media.

Group seeking Dunleavy recall isn’t stopping at minimum as it continues to gather signatures; Dunleavy says he won't veto $800K for OWL and homework help programs; Tali Birch Kindred, daughter of deceased state Sen. Birch, takes step toward trying to fill his seat; Heavy rainfall continues in Fairbanks area; Haines water department works to keep water flowing from Lily Lake amid drought; Plans for moving Napakiak school fuel tanks to develop at pace of erosion; Michael Krauss, Alaska linguistics expert, dead at 84; Sanitation is focus as Indian Health Service head tours Wales, Shishmaref; Fort Wainwright begins process of replacing old, increasingly inefficient power plant The post Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Aug. 16, 2019 appeared first on Alaska Public Media.

Dunleavy points to university budget cut agreement as a model for other services; State funding for early education restored, but services this year could still be affected; Homeless shelters and services to see reduced funding; Flood warning issued for several Interior rivers; Sitka Assembly takes no action on police investigation; Chinook runs in Southeast are looking very profitable; Ask A Climatologist: Summer 2019 was rife with records being broken; Petersburg climbers successfully summit Devils Thumb The post Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019 appeared first on Alaska Public Media.

Dunleavy cites public response in veto reversals; Murkowski says federal decision on Tongass and Roadless Rule coming soon; Skiff capsizes from ferry Columbia’s wake in Wrangell Narrows; Army, contractor begin planning to dismantle deactivated Fort Greely nuclear power plant; Dunleavy vetoes funds for Cold Climate Housing Research Center; Curyung Tribe to leave BBAHC; New report shows bear attacks are on the rise; Two decades later, Alaska's H3 says music is sanctuary The post Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019 appeared first on Alaska Public Media.

Dunleavy halves vetoes to University of Alaska, spreads cuts over three years; Dunleavy agrees to fully restore $9M in funding to Head Start, early learning programs; New water test results show Bethel city subdivision lead and copper levels meeting federal standards; Fairbanks city council OK's what could be state's first marijuana onsite consumption facility; Heatwave shuts down dog sled tour on Denver Glacier early; NSHC opens new health clinic in Shaktoolik; Sophocles play added to Ft. Wainwright military suicide prevention training; Shishmaref man finds 50-year-old message in a bottle The post Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019 appeared first on Alaska Public Media.