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Murder of David Grunwald: The trial of Dominic Johnson - Day 1, Part 1

Title: Murder of David Grunwald: The trial of Dominic Johnson - Day 1, Part 1
Runtime: 42:55
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Palmer District Attorney Roman Kalytiak and defense attorney Lyle Stohler give opening statements in the trial for murder suspect Dominic Johnson.

Please note: The Grunwald family has asked to have autopsy and crime scene photos censored so one part has been edited to accommodate that request.

Frontiers 160: Mike Dunleavy, Alaska's Next Governor

Title: Frontiers 160: Mike Dunleavy, Alaska's Next Governor
Runtime: 24:27
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: The Windbreak Café in Wasilla is a place where you can order hash browns, French toast, bacon and other down home food. It’s also where we sat down with Alaska’s governor-elect, Mike Dunleavy – who insisted on the restaurant as the location for our first interview since the election.

He says the Windbreak Café is a place where he feels comfortable -- and where he met with members of his campaign to strategize about the race.

Dunleavy’s wife, Rose, also joined us – so we also got a chance to find out more about Alaska’s next First Lady.

Rose Dunleavy says she plans to keep her job as an Alaska Airlines customer service agent for now. She told us she wants to find out how much time her First Lady duties will require -- and if it’s too demanding to juggle both, she’ll reconsider.

Here are some highlights from this week’s program:

• Early history: Mike Dunleavy talks about growing up in Scranton, Pen...

Frontiers 159: New Leadership for Alaska

Title: Frontiers 159: New Leadership for Alaska
Runtime: 24:25
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: On election night, we made a quick stop at a downtown Anchorage polling place to ask voters about the emotions they experienced as they cast their ballots.

Some said they felt a mixture of fear and hope, while others, a sense of inclusion – that through their vote, they had a voice.

While campaigns are divisive, elections are a ritual that brings us together as a community and a country, because we agree in advance to honor the collective decision of the voters.

Now the process of honoring the vote begins.

In the end, the races for governor and U.S. House were not as close as the polls projected. Mike Dunleavy cruised to victory as the next governor. And Don Young returns to the U.S. House, to serve in his 24th term. Republicans not only won Alaska’s top jobs, but a majority in both the House and the Senate.

We’ve invited two veteran state...

Party heads analyze red wave in Alaska elections

Title: Party heads analyze red wave in Alaska elections
Runtime: 11:36
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Alaska Republican Party Chairman Tuckerman Babcock and Alaska Democratic Party Executive Director Jay Parmly join Daybreak's Liz Raines to talk about the results of Alaska's 2018 election day.

Title: Frontiers 158: Midterm Elections 2018
Runtime: 24:51
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Tom Hewitt and Matt Buxton join host Rhonda McBride to talk about the 2018 midterm elections.

Frontiers 158 Web Extra: Election 2018 Races to Watch

Title: Frontiers 158 Web Extra: Election 2018 Races to Watch
Runtime: 13:49
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Guests Tom Hewitt of the Anchorage Daily News and Matt Buxton of MidnightSunAK.com join host Rhonda McBride in this online-only discussion about races to watch on Nov. 6.

Undecided Voters Weigh Candidates 2018 Debate Performance | KTVA 11's Daybreak

Title: Undecided Voters Weigh Candidates 2018 Debate Performance | KTVA 11's Daybreak
Runtime: 9:17
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Candidates in Alaska's race for governor sparred on the issues and threw a few personal jabs in the final debate several days before Election Day. As with many debates, the winner is in the eye of the voter.

2018 Gubernatorial Debate | KTVA 11 News

Title: 2018 Gubernatorial Debate | KTVA 11 News
Runtime: 50:29
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Candidates for governor Mike Dunleavy and Mark Begich addressed questions about crime, healthcare, the PFD, and more in a debate moderated by KTVA's Joe Vigil.

Frontiers 157: Bristol Bay Fishing 2018 - A Wild Ride

Title: Frontiers 157: Bristol Bay Fishing 2018 - A Wild Ride
Runtime: 24:24
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Our goal: to capture the peak of the Bristol Bay sockeye run. We were told to show up in Naknek in the first week of July, and we would see plenty of action.

The only problem was – no one told the fish. As it turned out, the run was three weeks late. People told us we should have gone to the Nushagak River, where the salmon were hitting the nets hard.

However, we soon discovered it was actually a great time to be in Naknek, because people had time to talk with us – to share their stories about fishing in Bristol Bay, as well as their hopes and dreams. If they had been racing to pick fish from their nets, our cameras and microphones would probably have gotten in the way.

Instead, we took in the fresh air of the Naknek beach, enjoyed the scenery and visited with setnetters. In some ways, it was like being part of a big family reunion, because many of these setnet families have worked together for generations. And while the children of these or...

Title: Training Dogs to Detect Breast Cancer
Runtime: 1:41
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: An Anchorage study is trying to prove that dogs can be trained to sniff out breast cancer and that their noses may be as accurate as a mammogram.

Watch as lead investigator trains Dolly Lefever trains canines to detect the disease.

Find the full story on ktva.com

Frontiers 156: New Life for Alaska Native Languages

Title: Frontiers 156: New Life for Alaska Native Languages
Runtime: 24:26
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: This week on Frontiers, we look at efforts to breathe new life into Alaska Native languages. There are about twenty of them – and what better place to explore this than the First Alaskans Institute’s Elders and Youth Conference?

Every afternoon you could hear sounds of languages like Tlingit, Dena’ina, Unangam Tunuu, Inupiat and Sugpiaq in sessions that were packed with students, ready to learn new words and phrases – many from communities with a dwindling number of fluent speakers.

Will this ultimately stop the language erosion that linguists say threatens almost all of Alaska Native languages with extinction by the end of the century?

Tristan Madros, one of the keynote speakers for the conference, talked about a prophecy from a medicine man he had heard as a child – that Native languages would go to sleep, and when people were ready, would be reawakened.

So was this year’s Elders and Youth Conference the awakening med...

Title: How GPS Monitoring Should Work
Runtime: 1:49
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Experts from Alaska's private electronic monitoring industry demonstrate how to track and find a suspect who has violated their conditions of release while wearing a GPS-equipped ankle monitor.

2018 Governor's Debate Exchange Between Candidates Begich, Dunleavy and Walker

Title: 2018 Governor's Debate Exchange Between Candidates Begich, Dunleavy and Walker
Runtime: 2:23
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: In this brief exchange from Oct. 18, 2018, candidates address the possibility of someone dropping out of the race or a deal between the Walker and Begich campaigns.

Toksook Bay Dancers at 2018 AFN Convention

Title: Toksook Bay Dancers at 2018 AFN Convention
Runtime: 0:52
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Tooksook Bay Dancers performing at the opening of AFN 2018 at the Dena'Ina Center.

Title: Alaska Crime report brief
Runtime: 7:02
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: A presentation by the State's Criminal Records and Identification Bureau Chief compares Alaska's recently released crime statistics to national figures, with an astounding result.
Kathryn Monfreda presented her report at a Town Hall event on Saturday that was focused on the flaws of SB91, Alaska's controversial crime reform package. The event was hosted by Representative Lora Reinbold. The presentation was based on Alaska's uniform crime reporting results for the last several years, including 2017.

Frontiers 155 Web Extra: October Surprise?

Title: Frontiers 155 Web Extra: October Surprise?
Runtime: 3:22
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Two longtime Alaska political operatives both warn voters to expect an October surprise in the governor’s race.

Art Hackney and Ivan Moore say they’re not sure what form this surprise will take, but say it’s possible it could cut into Dunleavy’s substantial lead in the polls.

Hackney is a longtime consultant for conservative candidates that have included Ted Stevens and Don Young. Moore is a public opinion researcher and pollster who has surveyed Alaskans since the 1990’s.

This interview occurred after we recorded Frontiers on Friday. On the show, we discussed an Ivan Moore poll released on Oct. 8th, which ranked Dunleavy in first place with 46.5 percent, ahead of Governor Bill Walker by almost 20 points.

Walker polled at 27 percent and Democrat Mark Begich at about 23%.

When we finished recording the show, we continued the conversation with a discussion about the potential for what campaign strategi...

Frontiers 155: Taking Alaska’s Political Pulse

Title: Frontiers 155: Taking Alaska’s Political Pulse
Runtime: 24:24
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: We’ve got quite a Frontiers road trip for you this week, as we cruise across Alaska’s quirky political landscape.

The three-way governor’s race is a great opportunity to explore why it’s hard to get a pulse on Alaskan voters.

Republicans may be the largest political party in our state, but the biggest block of voters are registered as undeclared or nonpartisan. I call them “independent critters,” because they tend to vote across party lines, depending on the candidate and the issues.

Our guides on this political tour are two of the best – Art Hackney and Ivan Moore.

Art got his start in Alaska politics on the streets of Fairbanks, passing out campaign literature for his dad, Glenn Hackney, who was elected to the state legislature in the 1970’s. Since then, he’s logged almost 40 years of advising conservative candidates – among them, Ted Stevens and Don Young.

Ivan is a longtime Alaska pollster and owne...

Ballot Measure 1 Debate on KTVA 11's Daybreak

Title: Ballot Measure 1 Debate on KTVA 11's Daybreak
Runtime: 10:31
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: The only proposition on the ballot next month isn't necessarily easy to understand. Ballot Measure 1 would create new laws surrounding development projects that could directly or indirectly impact salmon habitat.

Polly Carr, executive director of the Alaska Center, appeared on KTVA's Daybreak in support of the measure. Former District Attorney Clint Campion appeared in opposition.

Mat-Su superintendent speaks about abuse allegations against teacher

Title: Mat-Su superintendent speaks about abuse allegations against teacher
Runtime: 13:37
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description

Title: Debate on Alaska's Ballot Measure 1
Runtime: 55:31
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Both sides of the upcoming Balot Measure 1 will discuss the measure live in front of an audience at 49th State Brewing in Anchorage.

Title: Moose Rut In Anchorage, Alaska
Runtime: 2:32
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Chugach State Park is becoming world renown for moose viewing, especially during the fall rut. KTVA photojournalist John Thain tagged along with some experienced wildlife photographers to see what the excitement is all about.

Frontiers 154: One on One with Mark Begich

Title: Frontiers 154: One on One with Mark Begich
Runtime: 24:24
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: A one-on-one interview with Alaska gubernatorial candidate Mark Begich ahead of the 2018 election.

Frontiers 153: One on One with Gov. Bill Walker

Title: Frontiers 153: One on One with Gov. Bill Walker
Runtime: 24:27
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: A one-on-one interview with Alaska Governor Bill Walker in his run for a second term in office.

Title: Frontiers 152: Alaska Drone Pioneers
Runtime: 24:26
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: New uses for drones that are uniquely Alaskan. This week on Frontiers, we take you out to St. Paul Island to see how the tribal government is using them to monitor wildlife.

Frontiers 151: Wildlife Photography: From Gators to Grizzlies

Title: Frontiers 151: Wildlife Photography: From Gators to Grizzlies
Runtime: 24:27
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Gators and grizzlies have preoccupied Mark Emery for much of his career in film and photography – a passion he pursues by splitting time between Alaska in the summer and Florida in the winters.

I had a chance to cross paths with Mark this summer at the Bristol Bay Fly Fishing Academy, held at the Bear Trail Lodge in King Salmon.

The owner of the lodge, Nancy Morris Lyon, had invited him to give a presentation to her students, to expose them to a skill they could incorporate into a career as a sport fishing guide.

Mark does both – takes fly fishers out on trips to catch salmon, but he also leads photography expeditions into places like Katmai. Also in his spare time, he works on films about wildlife for the National Park Service, National Geographic and Curiosity Stream. Busy guy.

Frontiers 150: Alaska Aviation: Turbulent Times

Title: Frontiers 150: Alaska Aviation: Turbulent Times
Runtime: 24:26
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: For more than 60 years, the fate of PenAir has been in the hands of one family. But that could change come October, when it goes up for sale to settle the airline’s debts. The head of the company, Danny Seybert, says PenAir is about $19 million in debt. He still hopes to raise the cash to buy back the airline his father, Orin, founded in 1955.

Title: Lorraine Williams, Homer Cartoonist
Runtime: 3:38
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description

Raw video of former JBER soldier's assault on airman

Title: Raw video of former JBER soldier's assault on airman
Runtime: 0:15
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Nicholas Wyatt Brett, 28, was sentenced on Friday, Sept. 7, 2018 to less than a year in jail for this Aug. 6, 2017 assault on Airman Seth Duggan at Anchorage's F Street Station.

Title: Anchorage daycare invasion suspect
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description

Title: Frontiers 149: Taste of Alaska Web
Runtime: 24:27
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: If you haven’t caught KTVA’s award-winning Harvesting Alaska series, we revisit a few of those segments on this Labor Day weekend to celebrate summer’s bounty.

Alaska’s appetite for homegrown food continues to grow, if not thrive. The number of farmers markets statewide has mushroomed from about a dozen in 2005, to more than 50 today. And many of those vendors and have since opened brick and mortar businesses.

Title: Frontiers 149: A taste of Alaska
Runtime: 28:27
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: If you haven’t caught KTVA’s award-winning Harvesting Alaska series, we revisit a few of those segments on this Labor Day weekend to celebrate summer’s bounty.

Alaska’s appetite for homegrown food continues to grow, if not thrive. The number of farmers markets statewide has mushroomed from about a dozen in 2005 to more than 50 today. And many of those vendors and have since opened brick and mortar businesses.

In this week’s show, we offer some snapshots of this renaissance in Alaska agriculture. Here are some of the highlights:

  Farm to table dining: KTVA’s Lauren Maxwell and photojournalist Nick Swann take you to the Flying Squirrel Restaurant near Talkeetna, where the owner incorporates Alaskan grown produce into the menu.
  Mountain View’s field of dreams: A look at how immigrants are growing roots in Alaska on a small plot of land, where the harvest is more than just about food.
  Feeding ...

Title: Palmer artist casts orcas in bronze
Runtime: 1:46
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: A Mat-Su Valley artist calls it one of the most challenging pieces of his career. John Coyne is sculpting a life size family of orcas breaching the water in bronze.

Starr Marsett interview on alleged Dimond High football abuse

Title: Starr Marsett interview on alleged Dimond High football abuse
Runtime: 7:00
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Anchorage School Board President Starr Marsett spoke with KTVA on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018 about alleged sexual abuse involving Dimond High School football players.

Frontiers 148: Campaign 2018, A Pivotal Primary

Title: Frontiers 148: Campaign 2018, A Pivotal Primary
Runtime: 24:27
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Voters this Tuesday have more choices than they've had in years, especially in the Republican primary, where most of the races take place.

In this episode of Frontiers, we look ahead to Tuesday, as well as look ahead to the Governor's race in November. Here are some of the highlights.

- Pulse of the Primary: KENI Talk radio host Mike Porcaro has more than 40 years of watching politics in Alaska. Why he believes voter frustration over crime and reduced Permanent Fund Dividends are driving this year's election.

- Races to Watch: KTVA's Liz Raines looks at the hotly contested races and those with a potential for upsets.

- Narrowing the Field: Former State Senator Hollis French, an Anchorage Democrat, explains the pitch he made to Governor Bill Walker and Mark Begich, the Democratic candidate in the race. French says the Governor, who is running as an independent, and Begich will both draw from the same pool of voters, and unless they wan...

KTVA 2018 GOP gubernatorial primary debate

Title: KTVA 2018 GOP gubernatorial primary debate
Runtime: 57:34
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: The two front-runners in Alaska's 2018 Republican gubernatorial primary, Mike Dunleavy and Mead Treadwell, went head-to-head in a debate broadcast Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018 on KTVA CBS 11 News.

Title: KTVA Get Out - Mt. Baldy
Runtime: 2:57
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Original air date: June 1, 2018.

Title: KTVA Get Out: Table Rock
Runtime: 3:05
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Original air date: May 25, 2018

Title: KTVA Get Out - Potter Creek Trail
Runtime: 3:12
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Original air date: May 18, 2018

Title: KTVA Get Out - Flat Top
Runtime: 2:45
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Original air date: May 11, 2018

Title: KTVA Get Out - Kincaid Park
Runtime: 2:01
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Original air date: May 4, 2018

Title: Mic Check in the Morning Robin Sparkles
Runtime: 3:46
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Robin Sparkles recently took first place at the AK 49 Karaoke Competition. Now, he joins Daybreak for a Mic Check in the Morning!

Back-to-school shopping with mommy and Mason

Title: Back-to-school shopping with mommy and Mason
Runtime: 3:08
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: According to Backpack Index Data, parents will spend $637 for a kid in elementary school, $941 for a middle schooler and $1,355 for a high school student.

Title: Back to school shopping
Runtime: 1:38
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: It's back-to-school week-- a week dedicated to helping you relieve some of the stress, that comes at the start of a new school year.

Title: Frontiers 2: Saving Native Languages
Runtime: 24:19
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Only a generation ago, teachers tried to shame Alaska Native children into silence.

In this week’s Frontiers, Marie Rexford of Kaktovik recalls how teachers slapped her hand with a ruler for speaking in Inupiat.

David Katzeek, a Tlingit educator now living in Juneau, remembers how a teacher would force children to stretch out their arms and hold heavy rocks in each hand when they were caught speaking in their Native language.

Katzeek, now 72, was 8 years old at the time. He says he complied with the teacher’s directive, because he was taught by his elders to be respectful.

He coped by making a game out of holding the rocks and using his imagination to escape.

Thanks to those who endured the rocks and the rulers, Native languages are still here – and elders today are helping to mend the tattered tapestry of Alaska Native languages.

Today there are about twenty Native languages, but most have undergone se...

KTVA Goldies 2018: The truth behind the hair

Title: KTVA Goldies 2018: The truth behind the hair
Runtime: 3:28
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: By: Joe Vigil
Photographer: Jared Mazurek

Title: KTVA Goldies 2018: Opioid Town Hall
Runtime: 9:39
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Category:
Best Station Originated Community Service

Title: KTVA Goldies 2018: 3-14-18 Nightcast
Runtime: 15:01
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: By: KTVA

Category: Best Newscast

Frontiers 8: Heartache and Hope from the Wildfire Front Lines

Title: Frontiers 8: Heartache and Hope from the Wildfire Front Lines
Runtime: 24:27
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: It’s been a week of heartache and hope on the front lines of two wildfires burning in Southcentral Alaska -- and the summer fire season has only just begun.

KTVA Goldies 2018: Battle of Attu survivors

Title: KTVA Goldies 2018: Battle of Attu survivors
Runtime: 4:52
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: By: Scott Gross
Category: Best News Feature

KTVA Goldies 2018: Active shooter training

Title: KTVA Goldies 2018: Active shooter training
Runtime: 1:54
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: By: Heather Hintze
Category: Best News Story

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