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Jarvis Wallace discusses raising chickens in Anchorage, Alaska

Title: Jarvis Wallace discusses raising chickens in Anchorage, Alaska
Runtime: 3:05
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description

Title: Frontiers 50: Shattering the Silence
Runtime: 28:33
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: n this week’s program, we cross into a frontier that takes courage and determination to tackle: facing up to Alaska’s high rate of child sexual abuse, which the University of Alaska Anchorage Justice Center says is six times the national average.

Some of the highlights of this week’s show:

A behind-the scenes look at “Stalking the Bogeyman,” a UAA theater department production based on the real life story of a well-known Alaska journalist, David Holthouse, who was sexually assaulted at the age of seven.
Guests David Holthouse and Vera Starbard, who also wrote the play, “Our Voices will be Heard,” about her battle against child sexual abuse.
It was an honor to sit across from Holthouse and Starbard, two survivors of child sexual assault and who are pioneers in using theater to raise awareness and understanding about this devastating crime.

Holthouse said telling his story was the hardest thing he’s ever done, but probabl...

Frontiers 51: Discussing Byron Mallot's Journey

Title: Frontiers 51: Discussing Byron Mallot's Journey
Runtime: 28:26
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: This week’s program is a Frontier’s follow-up to a show we did last year profiling Alaska’s lieutenant governor, Byron Mallott.

Some of the highlights:

A look at Mallott’s Tlingit roots and some of the early influences in his life, including his mother’s struggles with racism and alcoholism.
The evolving relationship between the governor and lieutenant governor – why there may be nothing like it in the United States.
Analysis from two veteran Alaska Native journalists, Nellie Moore and Joaqlin Estus.
It’s always a pleasure to sit down with Nellie Moore and Joaqlin Estus. Both have covered Alaska Native issues for decades and have had a front row seat on Mallott’s rise in Native politics and as a business leader.

Despite their long history of covering Mallott as a public figure, they say they never expected him to hold statewide office – mainly because Mallott has personality traits that do not lend themselves to...

Frontiers 49: John Sturgeon's Turf War Continues

Title: Frontiers 49: John Sturgeon's Turf War Continues
Runtime: 28:25
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Although the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on John Sturgeon’s case against the National Park Service, his battle is far from over. The justices, in a unanimous decision, sent his case back to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for more work.

What started out as a moose hunter’s fight to use his hovercraft in a national park has become much more. The legal frontiers cover a vast territory — encompassing the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act — landmark federal legislation that added greatly to the complexity of land ownership in Alaska.

In this week’s program, we explore this complicated landscape, which some state rights advocates say is littered with broken promises and serious threats to state and private land rights.

Here are some of the highlights of this week’s show:

We hear several perspectives on the Sturgeon case, which include:
Ryan Fortson, who teaches cours...

Title: Frontiers 48: Alaska's Fiscal Cliff
Runtime: 28:26
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: This week on Frontiers, we stare down Alaska’s fiscal cliff, to see what it’ll take to pull the state back from the brink.

Some of the highlights from this week’s show:

A trip to Dillingham for a look at one rural community’s budget struggles.
A round-up of former Alaska governors and lieutenant governors weighing in on the budget.
Two former Alaska mayors — Rick Mystrom and former Gov. Tony Knowles — tell us how they would steer the state away from debt, if they were in the driver’s seat.
KTVA’s political reporter Liz Raines looks at the history of the Permanent Fund and what its original purpose was.
An impressive array of Alaska’s most veteran politicians, from both sides of the aisle, are urging state lawmakers to take action now on a long-term budget fix.

That means more than cutting the budget, more than dipping into state reserves.

For more Frontiers, visit www.ktva.com/shows/frontiers

Meet the 2016 Anchorage Assembly candidates: Treg Taylor

Title: Meet the 2016 Anchorage Assembly candidates: Treg Taylor
Runtime: 15:33
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: KTVA invited every registered candidate running in the 2016 Anchorage municipal election to an on-camera interview at our studios.

Meet the 2016 Anchorage Assembly candidates: Nicholas Begich

Title: Meet the 2016 Anchorage Assembly candidates: Nicholas Begich
Runtime: 18:36
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: KTVA invited every registered candidate running in the 2016 Anchorage municipal election to an on-camera interview at our studios.

Meet the 2016 Anchorage Assembly candidates: John Weddleton

Title: Meet the 2016 Anchorage Assembly candidates: John Weddleton
Runtime: 11:03
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: KTVA invited every registered candidate running in the 2016 Anchorage municipal election to an on-camera interview at our studios.

Meet the 2016 Anchorage Assembly candidates: Adam Trombley

Title: Meet the 2016 Anchorage Assembly candidates: Adam Trombley
Runtime: 13:07
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: KTVA invited every registered candidate running in the 2016 Anchorage municipal election to an on-camera interview at our studios.

Meet the 2016 Anchorage Assembly candidates: Forrest Dunbar

Title: Meet the 2016 Anchorage Assembly candidates: Forrest Dunbar
Runtime: 16:59
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: KTVA invited every registered candidate running in the 2016 Anchorage municipal election to an on-camera interview at our studios.

Meet the 2016 Anchorage Assembly candidates: Terre Gales

Title: Meet the 2016 Anchorage Assembly candidates: Terre Gales
Runtime: 13:20
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: KTVA invited every registered candidate running in the 2016 Anchorage municipal election to an on-camera interview at our studios.

Meet the 2016 Anchorage Assembly candidates: Amy Demboski

Title: Meet the 2016 Anchorage Assembly candidates: Amy Demboski
Runtime: 19:38
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: KTVA invited every registered candidate running in the 2016 Anchorage municipal election to an on-camera interview at our studios.

Meet the 2016 Anchorage Assembly candidates: Ron Alleva

Title: Meet the 2016 Anchorage Assembly candidates: Ron Alleva
Runtime: 17:03
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: KTVA invited every registered candidate running in the 2016 Anchorage municipal election to an on-camera interview at our studios.

Meet the 2016 Anchorage Assembly candidates: Dick Traini

Title: Meet the 2016 Anchorage Assembly candidates: Dick Traini
Runtime: 11:16
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: KTVA invited every registered candidate running in the 2016 Anchorage municipal election to an on-camera interview at our studios.

Meet the 2016 Anchorage Assembly candidates: Mark Schimsheimer

Title: Meet the 2016 Anchorage Assembly candidates: Mark Schimsheimer
Runtime: 15:36
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: KTVA invited every registered candidate running in the 2016 Anchorage municipal election to an on-camera interview at our studios.

Meet the 2016 Anchorage Assembly candidates: Eric Croft

Title: Meet the 2016 Anchorage Assembly candidates: Eric Croft
Runtime: 14:45
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: KTVA invited every registered candidate running in the 2016 Anchorage municipal election to an on-camera interview at our studios.

Meet the 2016 Anchorage Assembly candidates: Dustin Darden

Title: Meet the 2016 Anchorage Assembly candidates: Dustin Darden
Runtime: 14:09
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: KTVA invited every registered candidate running in the 2016 Anchorage municipal election to an on-camera interview at our studios.

Meet the 2016 Anchorage Assembly candidates: Ira Perman

Title: Meet the 2016 Anchorage Assembly candidates: Ira Perman
Runtime: 17:40
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: KTVA invited every registered candidate running in the 2016 Anchorage municipal election to an on-camera interview at our studios.

Frontiers 45: John Van Zyle's Iditarod Legacy

Title: Frontiers 45: John Van Zyle's Iditarod Legacy
Runtime: 28:26
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: The Iditarod legacy largely comes from the mushers and the dogs. But there are volunteers and others like Jon Van Zyle, who have made their mark.

On this week’s Frontiers, we take time out to appreciate Van Zyle’s legacy, as both a musher and an artist.

When he returned from his first Iditarod in 1976, the experience inspired him to finish 20 paintings about his adventures on the trail.

Since then, Jon can’t seem to stop himself. Although he describes himself humbly as just a storyteller with a paintbrush, he is an extremely prolific artist, creating about 80 paintings a year — all of them about Alaska.

One is always dedicated to the Iditarod – his annual Iditarod poster. He finished his 40th this year and also produces a print every year. He’s been the Iditarod’s official artist since 1979.

Aside from his drive and artistry, there’s a reason for that. Jon says details from his paintings — from the way...

Frontiers 46 A New Chapter for Justin and Jaimee High

Title: Frontiers 46 A New Chapter for Justin and Jaimee High
Runtime: 28:25
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Highlights from this week’s program:

· One mushing family’s incredible journey of recovery after last summer’s devastating Sockeye wildfire.

· It’s not only the flames you should fear in a wildfire. Two fire safety experts look ahead to this year’s fire season, which is already off to an early start.

· Heather Hintze takes us to the multi-lingual world of Greenland and the Arctic Winter Games.

You might say Justin and Jaimee High’s remarkable story is what happens when average people find themselves caught up in extraordinary circumstances.

To lose your home twice to fire in six months — and then to rebuild, not once, but twice in nine months — is nothing short of extraordinary.

But Justin and Jaimee are far from average.

They both came to Alaska with Iditarod dreams — Justin from Michigan, and Jaimee from Idaho. They met and fell in love, while handling dogs for DeeDee Jonro...

Frontiers 47: Alaska Adventures, Chasing Lights and Racing Dogs

Title: Frontiers 47: Alaska Adventures, Chasing Lights and Racing Dogs
Runtime: 28:25
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: From dazzling northern lights displays to the early days of the Iditarod, our theme this week is adventure, Alaska style.

Here are some of the highlights of this week’s show:

Chasing the Northern Lights in Bettles with photojournalist John Thain and veteran reporter Lauren Maxwell.
Interview with Todd Salat, known among Alaska photographers as the “Aurora Hunter.”
Profile of Joe May, who won the Iditarod in 1980
Following the Iditarod Sled Dog Race — or catching a glimpse of a green curtain of shimmering lights in the sky — are a part of the shared experiences, which bring us together as Alaskans.

For more Frontiers, visit www.ktva.com/shows/frontiers

Brent Sass Discusses 2016 Iditarod in Nome

Title: Brent Sass Discusses 2016 Iditarod in Nome
Runtime: 6:27
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Full Story - ktva.com/iditarod

Title: Paul Gebhart finishes the Iditarod 2016
Runtime: 0:50
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Follow our coverage: http://bit.ly/1Ll5alp

Jeff King finishes 2016 Iditarod Sled Dog Race

Title: Jeff King finishes 2016 Iditarod Sled Dog Race
Runtime: 7:03
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Follow our coverage: http://bit.ly/1Ll5alp

Mitch Seavey Finishes 2nd Place in the 2016 Iditarod

Title: Mitch Seavey Finishes 2nd Place in the 2016 Iditarod
Runtime: 2:50
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Full Story -- http://www.ktva.com/dallas-seavey-wins-his-third-straight-iditarod-race-352/

Dallas Seavey Wins the 2016 Iditarod in Record Time

Title: Dallas Seavey Wins the 2016 Iditarod in Record Time
Runtime: 5:11
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Full Story -- bit.ly/1M4nY8w

Dallas Seavey has entered an elite group, winning his third straight Iditarod, and fourth title overall. Focus and patience paid off for the Willow, Alaska musher in this year’s race.

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Alaska State Trooper Discusses Jeff King, Aliy Zirkle Snowmachine Attack

Title: Alaska State Trooper Discusses Jeff King, Aliy Zirkle Snowmachine Attack
Runtime: 1:35
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: READ MORE -- http://www.ktva.com/jeff-king-aliy-zirkle-intentionally-attacked-outside-nulato-checkpoint-508/

Female prison inmates comfort dropped Iditarod dogs

Title: Female prison inmates comfort dropped Iditarod dogs
Runtime: 1:10
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Female inmates at the Hiland Mountain Correctional Center in Eagle River are continuing a tradition which began during the 1974 Iditarod.

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Jeff King talks about the early morning attack that killed his dog, Nash

Title: Jeff King talks about the early morning attack that killed his dog, Nash
Runtime: 3:38
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Full story: http://bit.ly/1SIMxZT

Jeff King Tells Nulato Race Official he was Attacked on the Trail

Title: Jeff King Tells Nulato Race Official he was Attacked on the Trail
Runtime: 0:15
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Video courtesy Iditarod Insider

Aliy Zirkle First Into Galena Iditarod Checkpoint

Title: Aliy Zirkle First Into Galena Iditarod Checkpoint
Runtime: 0:54
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Veteran musher was first into the Galena checkpoint Friday morning.

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Video courtesy Iditarod Insider. More at Iditarod.com.

On the trail to Nikolai, Iditarod musher Petit ‘ran over John’

Title: On the trail to Nikolai, Iditarod musher Petit ‘ran over John’
Runtime: 1:54
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Reporting by KTVA's Megan Edge.

Iditarod 2016 Ceremonial Start - KTVA 11 News

Title: Iditarod 2016 Ceremonial Start - KTVA 11 News
Runtime: 1:20
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Enjoy some beauty shots of the ceremonial start in Downtown Anchorage.

More coverage at ktva.com/iditarod

Title: Comeback Trail: Jan Steves
Runtime: 4:58
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Originally aired on Frontiers with Rhonda McBride: Episode 44 | http://www.ktva.com/shows/frontiers/

Title: Comeback Trail: DeeDee Jonrowe
Runtime: 5:02
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Originally aired on Frontiers with Rhonda McBride: Episode 44 | http://www.ktva.com/shows/frontiers/

Wasilla Rep. Lynn Gattis -- Full Comments on Senior Citizens

Title: Wasilla Rep. Lynn Gattis -- Full Comments on Senior Citizens
Runtime: 7:25
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description

Title: Frontiers 44: Comeback Trail
Runtime: 28:26
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: The Iditarod has become a never-ending story. Every year, from the front of the trail to the back of the trail, there are new chapters about stamina and endurance — and the powerful bond between dogs and humans.

In this week’s program, we profile two mushers from Willow, DeeDee Jonrowe and Jan Steves. Both lost their home in last June’s Sockeye wildfire, and they’ve been racing just to get to the start line.

It’s hard enough just to plan for a 1,000 mile run to Nome, let alone to do so while recovering from a devastating fire. Jonrowe and Steves could have easily been given a pass for sitting this race out.

Jonrowe lost her mother a few weeks after the fire, and Steves’ son Tyler died nine days before it swept through her property. She was in Seattle mourning his loss when she received news of the wildfire.

On Frontiers this week, we spend some time with both women as they prepare for one of their most challenging Iditarod...

Missing in Ketchikan: FBI asked to review missing person cases

Title: Missing in Ketchikan: FBI asked to review missing person cases
Runtime: 0:33
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: The Ketchikan Police Department has asked the FBI to step in and review the cases of three local men who have disappeared.

Full story: http://bit.ly/1QboBeT

Title: Frontiers 37: Frontiers of Faith
Runtime: 28:28
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: While Dec. 25 is the day most Alaskans celebrate Christ’s birthday, Jan. 7 is the day for the Russian Orthodox, who use the Julian calendar instead of the Gregorian. Jan. 7 is also the start of a week of festivities.

The Russian Orthodox faith is one of the oldest in Alaska, more than 200 years old. And while it’s practiced in communities across the state, Father Michael Oleksa says there’s very little that’s truly “Russian” in what’s popularly known as “Russian Christmas” — that the celebration here is a mix of European and Alaska Native traditions, which merged and took on a unique character of their own.

Father Oleska, a well-known lecturer on cross-cultural education, is our guest. If you haven’t heard him before, he’s an encyclopedia of information but also a wonderful storyteller. Also check out this week’s Frontiers Web Extra, which features an extended interview with Father Oleksa. Truly, I could listen to him talk for hours...

Frontiers 36: Reinventing the Alaska National Guard

Title: Frontiers 36: Reinventing the Alaska National Guard
Runtime: 28:21
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: While the Alaska National Guard took a beating in the 2014 elections, investigations later showed the erosion of its leadership culture and footprint in rural Alaska had already been well underway.

On Frontiers this week, we explore plans to reverse that process.

Our guest is Brigadier General Laurie Hummel, the first female commander of the Alaska National Guard. I was struck by how down-to-earth Hummel is – and how easy it was to have a “comfortable” conversation with her. Before we recorded Frontiers, she stashed her father’s dog tags in her front pocket, a reminder that her roots in the military go deep.

I think many of our viewers will be surprised to learn how much the Guard’s presence in rural Alaska has atrophied from its heyday in the 1980’s, when it had about 700 members. Today, that number is down to about three dozen.

Much of the Guard’s rural downsizing happened more or less under the radar, while deployment...

Title: Frontiers 39: High Stakes Session
Runtime: 28:24
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Unprecedented. Historic. Tough. Somber. Scary — Those are some of the words Alaska lawmakers have used to describe the job ahead for 2016 Legislature.

With back-to-back multi-billion-dollar deficits, lawmakers not only have some difficult choices ahead but are also pushing into unchartered fiscal territory.

Finance experts say they cannot balance the budget with cuts alone and will need new sources of cash to bridge the fiscal gap.

In this week’s program, we take you to Juneau for the start of the 2016 legislative session and visit with legislative leaders as they prepare for another round of political poker, in which the stakes are higher than ever before. Whatever lawmakers do, Alaskans will likely feel the impact in their pocketbooks.

We’ll look at some of the cards on the table, which include a Senate Majority plan to slash $800 million from the budget. Lawmakers also have proposals from the governor to weigh — such as tap...

Title: Frontiers 38: Kenai Fish Wars Follow Up
Runtime: 28:25
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: From time to time on Frontiers, we revisit stories we aired previously and bring you up to date on new developments.

Last summer, we went to the shores of Cook Inlet on the Kenai Peninsula to look at the debate over an initiative spearheaded by the Alaska Fisheries Conservation Alliance, a group with a board made up of longtime sport fishing advocates.

It was the latest chapter in the ongoing saga of the decades-old Kenai Fish Wars, one that had the potential to affect other commercial fisheries.

Through the initiative, the Alliance sought to ban setnets in certain parts of the state to protect king salmon. The language of the ballot measure directly targeted Cook Inlet setnetters.

Initiative backers say their main goal is to prevent setnetters from catching kings as they make their way back to the spawning grounds on the Kenai River. Their mantra: every king counts.

But on New Year’s Eve last year, the high court rule...

Dog Mushing in Bettles, Alaska (4K Video)

Title: Dog Mushing in Bettles, Alaska (4K Video)
Runtime: 2:44
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Severin Cathri, who moved to Alaska from Switzerland, takes us on a sled dog ride near Bettles, Alaska. The tiny community lise 35 miles north of the Arctic Circle.

Title: Frontiers 43: Behind the Name 'Eskimo'
Runtime: 28:26
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: The frontiers of language and culture are always changing. Words take on new meanings all the time.

For those of you old enough to remember, there was a time when “cool” referred only to the temperature of something. Nowadays, a slight shift in intonation can turn the meaning of “bad” to “good.” Or more recently, the word “friend” is no longer just a noun but also a verb, when you “friend” someone on Facebook.

Sometimes the use of language is subtle, meant by one group to control another – or used to right a wrong, as in the recent push by college students to rename buildings named after slaveholders.

Here in Alaska, the word “Eskimo” has taken on a life of its own. Although you will not find the word “Eskimo” in any indigenous language in Alaska, it has been used to describe Alaskan’s northernmost peoples going back to the times of Captain James Cook’s arrival in Cook Inlet.

“Eskimo” is a name ou...

Tourists Photographing the Northern Lights in Bettles, Alaska (4K Video)

Title: Tourists Photographing the Northern Lights in Bettles, Alaska (4K Video)
Runtime: 2:21
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Tourists from Montana capturing the Northern Lights at the Bettles Lodge in Bettles, Alaska in early February.

Watch more at www.ktva.com.

Match Made in Alaska, Part 3: Watch the first date unfold

Title: Match Made in Alaska, Part 3: Watch the first date unfold
Runtime: 3:33
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description

Iron Dog veteran, ‘Cuppy Cake’ Sam bond after surviving separate crashes in Alaska

Title: Iron Dog veteran, ‘Cuppy Cake’ Sam bond after surviving separate crashes in Alaska
Runtime: 2:59
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description

Title: Frontiers 42: Love in Nome
Runtime: 28:27
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: We hope you enjoy our special Valentine’s Day edition of Frontiers. We found lots to love about Nome and are sure you will, too.

Years of living in the Bush gave me a new appreciation for some of those finer things in life like fresh flowers, which in recent years have become more available.

When you think of the thousands of miles flowers must travel to places like Nome, it’s remarkable that this Bering Sea community even has a flower shop, probably one of farthest North in the United States.

From our story, you can see Trinh Johnson clearly enjoys running her flower shop, bringing that splash of color and sweet fragrance to the Arctic. She tells us she plans to open one in Kotzebue this spring.

Nome, as you will see in this week’s program, is full of heart. You’ll have a chance to meet the new mayor, the irrepressible Richard Beneville. Even though he’s in his 70s, he’s still on the go and says his love affair with Nome ...