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Newtok not waiting: Disintegrating Alaska village stages move to new site

Title: Newtok not waiting: Disintegrating Alaska village stages move to new site
Runtime: 3:47
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Newtok doesn’t intend to lose itself to the creep of climate change. Of more than two dozen threatened Alaska villages, Newtok is the one farthest along in efforts to relocate to new, higher ground. Read more: http://www.adn.com/article/20150823/newtok-not-waiting-disintegrating-village-stages-move-new-site

Full-metal jousting at the Alaska State Fair

Title: Full-metal jousting at the Alaska State Fair
Runtime: 1:07
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Knights don helmets, pick up shields and put armor to the test. Fans are treated to run after run of horse and knight hurtled at one other. The object is to use the lance to land a perfect strike against the opponent’s shield.

Wildfire destroys structures in Kodiak Island village, prompts evacuation

Title: Wildfire destroys structures in Kodiak Island village, prompts evacuation
Runtime: 0:54
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: In this view from Rezanof Drive in Kodiak, a fire burns in Chiniak at midnight Friday morning, August 28, 2015. People are being urged to evacuate the small Kodiak Island community of Chiniak because of a wildfire police describe as unpredictable and quick-moving that has already destroyed homes and a library. Video courtesy Justin Bastien.

Competitive flower growing for the Alaska State Fair

Title: Competitive flower growing for the Alaska State Fair
Runtime: 3:24
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Marya and Garnett Morrow Sr. of Moose Gardens Bed and Breakfast have been competing in the Alaska State Fair since the early 1980s, but have been consistently winning grand champion ribbons every year since 1985.
Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch News: http://j.mp/1Kmr2Gz

APD spokesperson Renee Oistad on Anchorage shooting

Title: APD spokesperson Renee Oistad on Anchorage shooting
Runtime: 0:41
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Anchorage police were actively searching for a suspect in a shooting that left one man injured on the afternoon of Aug. 27, 2015.

Title: Barrow, AK experiences 15 ft. waves
Runtime: 0:37
Date posted: 11 years ago
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Title: Becoming an Outdoors Woman in Alaska
Runtime: 3:57
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Heading outdoors to do a little shooting? Fly fishing? Hunting? Archery? Rapelling? Just need to survive Alaska’s wilderness?

You need skills, and a state program run with support of the Outdoors Heritage Foundation aims to teach them in a friendly, supportive environment. The Becoming an Outdoors Woman program, or BOW for short, aims to teach the skills women (men can enroll, too) to thrive in the outdoors and embrace new challenges.

“When I first got here I was nervous,” said Haley Heniff of Fairbanks, who enrolled in her second immersion weekend Aug. 7-9 at the Lost Lake Scout Camp in the Kenai Peninsula. “There’s so many people and we all come from different backgrounds, we’re all different ages.

“We all don’t know each other but within 10 minutes you feel so comfortable, and everyone is open and accepting. We have … someone who’s a pro at something to a complete novice, and we’re all completely comfortable with each o...

Survivor of 1955 crash on St. Lawrence Island returns to Alaska

Title: Survivor of 1955 crash on St. Lawrence Island returns to Alaska
Runtime: 2:44
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: David Assard, 82, survived a crash after his Navy patrol plane was shot down by Russian jets in 1955. The crew of the plane was rescued by Siberian Yupik National Guard members on St. Lawrence Island.
Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch News: http://j.mp/1WOD302

Title: Alaska B-Boy Icey Ives
Runtime: 1:30
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Icey Ives is a B-Boy, and not just a Friday night wannabe. On Saturday, Aug. 22, he’ll represent Alaska at the Red Bull BC One North America Final in Orlando, Florida. Billed as “the world’s largest and most prestigious one-on-one B-Boy competition,” the Red Bull contest features 16 dancers from the U.S. and Canada in an all-out throw-down to see who goes to the international championship in Rome on Nov. 14.

Title: Beluga whales in the Yukon River
Runtime: 0:32
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Hundreds of miles up the Yukon River, Interior Alaska residents spotted a small pod of beluga whales between the communities of Ruby and Galena on Sunday, Aug. 17, 2015. Video courtesy Marie Cleaver.

Petersburg's cold-water pink shrimp fishery finds a new market in Iceland

Title: Petersburg's cold-water pink shrimp fishery finds a new market in Iceland
Runtime: 4:30
Date posted: 11 years ago
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Title: Whales spotted in the Yukon River
Runtime: 0:25
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Clifford Cleaver was heading from the Interior community of Galena to Ruby on Sunday, Aug. 16, 2015, when he spotted at least four beluga whales in the Yukon River -- 550 miles from the mouth of the river.

Kids in Yup'ik village embrace the art of skateboarding

Title: Kids in Yup'ik village embrace the art of skateboarding
Runtime: 2:49
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Constructed a year ago on the old airstrip, Kwethluk's $200,000 skatepark stands out as a rural Alaska novelty and also as something more.

Those behind the project call it a fun place for children and teens to become healthy, fit and confident. It also injects a hip skateboarding scene into a rich, traditional Yup’ik Eskimo culture where the modern sport of choice long has been basketball and families still get salmon, moose and berries for their winter’s food.

“It takes you out of mainstream ways of thinking and lets you look at the world differently,” said Brian Berube, the driving force for the park.

Read more: http://www.adn.com/article/20150812/kids-yupik-village-embrace-art-skateboarding

2015 Salmon Fest (formerly Salmonstock) in Ninilchik, AK

Title: 2015 Salmon Fest (formerly Salmonstock) in Ninilchik, AK
Runtime: 2:42
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Crowds packed the Ninilchik fairgrounds on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula over the weekend for the 5th annual Salmonfest, a celebration of music and, well, salmon. Watch and listen.
Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch: http://j.mp/1J5H7yK

How to can your catch of wild Alaska salmon

Title: How to can your catch of wild Alaska salmon
Runtime: 10:12
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Advantages to canning your catch in glass jars is that your fish is already cooked, sterilized and ready to eat once it’s processed. The jars of fish are good for camping and shipping to friends and family, and they make for quick easy meals.
Read the full instructions on Alaska Dispatch News: http://j.mp/1D7hEbS

Title: The Alaska Challenge
Runtime: 1:37
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Ride along with handcyclist Andrew Kurka as he competes in Stage 2 of the The Alaska Challenge, a criterium on an oval at Cuddy Family Midtown Park in Anchorage on Tuesday, July 21, 2015.

A changing tide: the historical evolution of the Bristol Bay fishery

Title: A changing tide: the historical evolution of the Bristol Bay fishery
Runtime: 5:51
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch News: j.mp/1dWxObZ

The world through the lens of photographer Corey Arnold

Title: The world through the lens of photographer Corey Arnold
Runtime: 3:51
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch News: j.mp/1dWxObZ

Family ties: adapting to the land at Graveyard Point

Title: Family ties: adapting to the land at Graveyard Point
Runtime: 7:05
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch News: j.mp/1dWxObZ

Uncle Leroy's coffee brings mobile coffee to Anchorage

Title: Uncle Leroy's coffee brings mobile coffee to Anchorage
Runtime: 2:55
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Austin Schwartz began driving a 1968 school bus around town this summer, outfitted with the original seats, paint and a mobile coffee bar. He specializes in pour over coffee that he roasts inside the bus. Throughout the summer Schwartz will bring his coffee bus, known as Uncle Leroy's Coffee, to APU Farmer's Market, Spenard Food Truck Carnival, Muldoon Farmers Market as well as other locations in Anchorage. The bus is named after his dog, but Schwartz has created a back story for who he thinks Uncle Leroy is, a narrative that goes along with his idea of pour over coffee.

Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak locates 6 missing mariners in Kuskokwim Bay.

Title: Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak locates 6 missing mariners in Kuskokwim Bay.
Runtime: 0:50
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description

Brown bears feed at Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park and Preserve

Title: Brown bears feed at Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park and Preserve
Runtime: 6:18
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: The Brooks Falls Wildlife Viewing Platform at Brooks Camp offers visitors of Katmai National Park and Preserve a rare glimpse of brown bears close up in the wild. The site is a passage for sockeye salmon returning from the ocean, to the spawning grounds of Lake Brooks. Brown bears are known to gather at the falls during the salmon runs in July and September to feed on the plentiful fish. The area is also known for it's archaeological site containing some of the oldest human remains in North America dating approximately 9,00 years old.

To view the Brooks Falls bear cam at Katmai National Park and Preserve visit Explore.org.

Title: Mutton Busting
Runtime: 1:07
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Youngsters had the opportunity to participate in "Mutton Busting" during the Rodeo Alaska event at the William Clark Chamberlin Equestrian Center off Abbott Road in Anchorage on Sunday, June 21, 2015.

Title: Urban Unangax Culture Camp
Runtime: 0:48
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description

Sockeye fire victim's dog team returns to Willow

Title: Sockeye fire victim's dog team returns to Willow
Runtime: 1:37
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Neighbors of Willow resident Leo Lashock returned his recreation dog mushing team back to his property on Thursday, June 18, 2015. Lashock’s home was destroyed in the Sockeye fire but asked that his dogs be returned to the dog lot in his yard. The neighboring Boeve family, whose home survived the wildfire as of Thursday afternoon, will help care for the dogs, who had been staying at Houston Middle School while evacuated from the fire area.

Firefighters create fire buffer against the Card Street Fire

Title: Firefighters create fire buffer against the Card Street Fire
Runtime: 1:53
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: The Idaho Panhandle Hotshots and the Central Emergency Services Firefighters conduct a controlled burn June 17, 2015 to create a buffer for the Kenai Keys neighborhood.

Card Street Fire roars toward Kenai Keys

Title: Card Street Fire roars toward Kenai Keys
Runtime: 2:03
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: One Tuesday evening, the Card Street Fire -- seen here from the Funny River side of the Kenai River -- roared toward the neighborhood of Kenai Keys.
Despite the intensity of its approach, no homes in the neighborhood were destroyed by the fire Tuesday night -- though one state Fish and Game cabin was lost.
Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch News: http://j.mp/1Bo4RAL

Trooper patrols Sockeye wildfire near Willow, Alaska

Title: Trooper patrols Sockeye wildfire near Willow, Alaska
Runtime: 2:19
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Alaska Wildlife Trooper Thomas Akelkok patrols the vicinity of the Sockeye Fire near Willow on June 16, 2015. Four hundred firefighters are working to contain the wildland fire, which has burned more than 7, 500 acres.

Title: Sockeye Fire in Willow, Alaska
Runtime: 0:55
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Torching spruce trees north of Kashwitna Lake and a view driving south on a smokey Parks Highway during the Sockeye Fire on Monday, June 15, 2015.
Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch News: http://j.mp/1LeKM00

Title: Card Street Fire on the Kenai Peninsula
Runtime: 0:07
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: A fire reported Monday afternoon on the Kenai Peninsula grew rapidly through the day, burning at least six structures and prompting an evacuation alert in the Sterling area, emergency officials said.
Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch News: http://j.mp/1JS6iKT
Video by Sean Ruddy

How to catch a king salmon at Ship Creek in downtown Anchorage, Alaska

Title: How to catch a king salmon at Ship Creek in downtown Anchorage, Alaska
Runtime: 6:35
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: It's the first salmon run of the season at Ship Creek in downtown Anchorage and it's time to get out your rod and land a fish. Here's what you'll need to slay your first king.
Read the full list here: http://j.mp/1GoqHDw

Colony Glacier C-124 Globemaster II recovery

Title: Colony Glacier C-124 Globemaster II recovery
Runtime: 0:57
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: For the fourth consecutive summer, a team of military members and scientists are combing the surface of Colony Glacier looking for remains and personal effects that can be used to identify the 52 people who perished when a U.S. Air Force Douglas C-124 Globemaster II crashed into Mount Gannett, about 15 miles away, while flying in severe weather in 1952. June 10, 2015.

U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Sitka rescues crew in Gulf of Alaska

Title: U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Sitka rescues crew in Gulf of Alaska
Runtime: 6:06
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description

Fertile ground in rural Alaska at Meyers Farm

Title: Fertile ground in rural Alaska at Meyers Farm
Runtime: 3:04
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Innovative Bethel farmer Tim Meyers is turning permafrost into a vegetable-producing phenomenon, in an area where agriculture has been historically hard to pull off.
Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch News: http://j.mp/1BFrj8U

Title: How to fillet an Alaska sockeye salmon
Runtime: 3:55
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Patrick Hoogerhyde, chef and owner of Bridge Seafood on Ship Creek in Anchorage, knows how to fillet a fish. Growing up in the appropriately-named Southwest Alaska community of King Salmon, Hoogerhyde learned how to perfect his filleting technique.

Here's what you'll need need to fillet a sockeye salmon: One day-old, iced sockeye (also known as red) salmon, a flexible fillet knife, cutting board or surface, and forceps or pliers.
Get the list of steps on Alaska Dispatch News: http://j.mp/1FXxZxD

Title: How to grill a sockeye salmon fillet
Runtime: 3:08
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Salmon season has begun and it's time to fire up the grill. Chef Patrick Hoogerhyde of Bridge Seafood in Anchorage is going to show us how to properly grill a sockeye salmon.

What you need: grill, charcoal, salmon fillet, cracked black pepper, kosher salt and canola or olive oil.
Go to Alaska Dispatch News for the list of steps: http://j.mp/1KHGiPb

Mission Memorial Day climbers are forced to turn back from Denali summit attempt

Title: Mission Memorial Day climbers are forced to turn back from Denali summit attempt
Runtime: 1:46
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description

Great Alaska Schools legislative protest

Title: Great Alaska Schools legislative protest
Runtime: 0:52
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Musicians, from left, Suzanne Little, teacher Patty Hamre, Miles Allen, and BP Teacher of the Year Mary Schallert and Great Alaska Schools supporters gathered in an "emergency protest" near the Legislative Information Office in Anchorage on Wednesday, May 27, 2015, demanding that the legislature "stop fiddling around with the PFD and fund public education in Alaska."

Title: Byron Nicholai of I Sing, You Dance
Runtime: 6:51
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Byron Nicholai never thought he'd be anything more than a regular teenager from a remote Alaska village. But when his Facebook page "I Sing, You Dance" began to take off, he suddenly found himself a celebrity and role model for Alaska Native youth.
Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch News: http://j.mp/1Rh02hu

Orphaned moose calf recovers at Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center

Title: Orphaned moose calf recovers at Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center
Runtime: 1:42
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: When newborn animals are declared abandoned by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, they sometimes end up at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center in Portage. Then, says caretaker Sarah Howard, "we become mom."
Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch News:
Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch News: http://j.mp/1JVSwW3

Mapping the Chester Creek Trail in Anchorage

Title: Mapping the Chester Creek Trail in Anchorage
Runtime: 3:43
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Seeking the Source is a community art mapping project taking place along the Chester Creek Trail Anchorage May 17 - 23, 2015 curated by artist Jimmy Riordan. Riordan grew up in Anchorage and lived off the Chester Creek Trail for many years. “For me it’s one of the most diverse landscapes in the parks system in Anchorage, in that it bumps up against a lot of different communities and also has a variety of different natural landscapes,” according to Riordan. “You’ve got wetlands, you’ve got the bird habitat at Westchester Lagoon, you’ve got these forested areas so it was that diversity that we were intrigued by.”

Title: Anchorage Bike to Work Day
Runtime: 1:58
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Watch a 2-hour long bike commute compressed into 2 minutes. Come along for the ride as we visit seven stations in Anchorage, each offering a different treat for bike commuters participating in Bike to Work Day.

Petersburg, Alaska's Little Norway Festival

Title: Petersburg, Alaska's Little Norway Festival
Runtime: 1:31
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description

Title: Three little brown bear cubs
Runtime: 2:21
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Three orphaned brown bear cubs rescued from Kodiak Island after their mother was killed by a hunter, wake up from a nap and begin wrestling with each other in an infirmary at the Alaska Zoo on Monday, May 11, 2015. The cubs are doing well in their recovery and will be moved to an outside exhibit soon. Bill Roth / Alaska Dispatch News

Title: Poetry Out Loud 2015 winner Maeva Ordaz
Runtime: 1:48
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Maeva Ordaz, a senior at West High School in Anchorage, has won the 2015 Poetry Out Loud national competition and a prize of $20,000.

Anchorage's Nerds of the North teen robotics club

Title: Anchorage's Nerds of the North teen robotics club
Runtime: 2:24
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: The Nerds of the North robotics team has a saying, “Nerd is a four letter with a six figure salary". Alaska's only FIRST Robotics Competition (FTC) team, number 568, is in its 15th year.
Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch News: http://j.mp/1P0i97D

Anchorage police address Dustin Badillo arrest

Title: Anchorage police address Dustin Badillo arrest
Runtime: 1:16
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: APD spokesperson Renee Oistad addresses arrest of sexual assault suspect Dustin Badillo on April 23.

At Cama-i, Alaska Natives gather to celebrate through dance

Title: At Cama-i, Alaska Natives gather to celebrate through dance
Runtime: 2:14
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Thousands of spectators joined hundreds of dancers, drummers and artists on Friday, April 17, 2015 for the annual Cama- Dance Festival in Bethel, Alaska.

Title: 45th Native Youth Olympics
Runtime: 2:07
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: The idea of friendly competition isn’t just something Native Youth Olympians talk about. It’s all they talk about.

“It’s weird how competing against someone else will bring you together, but it really does,” explained Madeline Ko, who won the two-foot high kick during Friday’s competition at the Alaska Airlines Center.

Read more: http://www.adn.com/article/20150417/friendly-competition-essence-nyo

Title: 2015 Arctic Man Ski and Sno-Go Classic
Runtime: 3:04
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: According to founder Howard Thies, Arctic Man campgrounds in the Hoodoo Mountains at Summit Lake becomes the third largest city in Alaska overnight. The event has grown in the past thirty years from one hundred attendees to approximately 15,000. The grounds are overrun by RVs, snow machines, and bonfires.
Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch News: http://j.mp/1OxHzuO

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