Web Extra: Louise Hogarth Interview
Tue, December 4, 2007
In addition to the brief interview featured in tonight’s Alaska News Nightly, we’re offering this extended version of our chat with filmmaker Louise Hogarth, creator of the film Angels in the Dust, focused on the impacts of the HIV/AIDS crisis in South Africa. Hogarth is also creator of doactnow.org, a nonprofit service fighting poverty and unemployment in South Africa.
Lori Townsend, APRN - Anchorage
Search continues for missing Medivac flight
Tue, December 4, 2007
The search continues this evening for medical helicopter that went missing last night on its way from Cordova to Anchorage’s Providence Hospital. There were four unidentified people on-board the ambulance flight, which is thought to have gone down somewhere near Esther Island in Prince William Sound.
David Shurtleff, APRN - Anchorage
Gasline plans causing controversy
Tue, December 4, 2007
Two of the five applications the state received for assistance in developing a gas pipeline from the North Slope would open the possibility of exporting liquefied natural gas while not making it exclusively for use in domestic U.S. energy markets. But the possibility of that happening is not sitting well in the nation’s capital.
Dave Donaldson, APRN - Juneau
Land swap could lead to protection
Tue, December 4, 2007
Top managers with the Alaska Mental Health Trust and the Forest Service have been discussing a land swap in southeast Alaska. The details are still in the works, but it could result in some protections for thousands of acres of environmentally sensitive trust land in Petersburg.
Matt Lichtenstein, KFSK - Petersburg
Stevens pushing for erosion funding
Tue, December 4, 2007
Following recent meetings in Anchorage about how to tackle erosion caused by climate change, Senator Ted Stevens is pressing the Army Corps of Engineers and the White House Office of Management and Budget to be more open to long-term funding.
Joel Southern, APRN - Washington, DC
Projects may boost ferry usage
Tue, December 4, 2007
State and federal officials expect to complete two key southeast Alaska highway projects next summer. Both could increase use of the region’s newest ferry route.
Ed Schoenfeld, CoastAlaska - Juneau
Rare waterspout sighting in waters north of Juneau
Tue, December 4, 2007
A seldom-seen and almost-mythical object of mariner lore was spotted several times in Lynn Canal yesterday. A pilot reported observing a waterspout about seven miles northwest of Point Bridge, adjacent to Berner’s Bay.
Matt Miller, KTOO - Juneau
Wolves worrying pet owners
Tue, December 4, 2007
A wolf pack roaming an area east of Fairbanks has likely figured out that dogs are an easy meal. Wolves there have killed 2 pet dogs in recent weeks and tried to carry off a third.
Dan Bross, KUAC - Fairbanks
GCI to compete in the bush
Tue, December 4, 2007
That state has given telecommunications company GCI the go ahead to compete in rural Alaska.
Ben Markus, KUAC - Fairbanks
Film highlights HIV/AIDS crisis in South Africa
Tue, December 4, 2007
The cold and dark of the Alaska winter may seem very far removed from South Africa. But a documentary showing tonight as part of the Anchorage International Film Festival is aimed at bringing the AIDS crisis in that country closer to home.
- Web Extra: Louise Hogarth Interview (extended version)
- angelsinthedust.org (film web site)
- doactnow.org (anti-poverty fundraising web site)
Lori Townsend, APRN - Anchorage
Alaska News Nightly: December 4, 2007
Tue, December 4, 2007
The Coast Guard is searching for an air ambulance helicopter that went missing between Cordova and Anchorage last night with four people on board. Plus, dog owners in the Fairbanks area are being forced to protect their animals from a roaming pack of wolves. Those stories and more on tonight’s Alaska News Nightly, broadcast statewide on APRN stations.
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Talk of Alaska: Eyewitness to Global Warming
Tue, December 4, 2007
World leaders meet this month in Bali (December 4 to 14) to begin work on a new treaty to succeed the Kyoto Agreement on limiting emissions of greenhouse gases. The United States called the last treaty “flawed” and never ratified it. This one will be different — it’s urgent and the pressure has grown with the unexpectedly large melt-back of the Arctic Ocean ice pack. On this week’s Talk of Alaska we chat with Arctic explorer John Stetson, who mushed a dog team across Baffin Island this year and is an “eyewitness to global warming.” READ MORE →
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