Medicaid Expansion Proposal Could be Uphill Battle
On Thursday, Senate and House Democrats introduced legislation aimed at expanding Medicaid to as many as 41,000 Alaskans. The move comes six weeks after Governor Sean Parnell declined federal dollars...
View ArticleThe Fight For Sobriety: Stories of Recovery
The Fight For Sobriety: Stories of Recovery
View ArticleKTUU Offers GCI Free Carriage of Winter Olympics in Rural Alaska
The management of KTUU Channel 2 made an offer to GCI for free carriage to rural GCI subscribers during the Olympic Winter Games next month so the games could be seen across the state. GCI dropped...
View ArticleThe Fight For Sobriety: Stories of Recovery
The Salvation Army's Clitheroe Center is one of the few residential programs in Anchorage for drug and alcohol treatment. It is where Kendra Butts has spent nearly the past two months. Kendra violated...
View ArticleStudents Protest to get More Money for Schools
A Facebook movement called Students With a Voice is gaining momentum with Anchorage students. Steller 11th grader Bridget Galvin started the group with the goal of getting lawmakers in Juneau to...
View ArticleValdez Avalanche
About a half-mile of the Richardson Highway remains closed, cutting off traffic in and out of the city of Valdez after two avalanches created a dam of water and high levels of snow.
View ArticleBoard of Fisheries Kicks Off Two Weeks of Meetings
Friday was the first day of a two week long meeting for the Alaska Board of Fisheries. Over the next two weeks, the board will be listening to public testimony and review as many as 236 proposals....
View ArticleAnchorage Police Investigate Outdoor Death
Anchorage police say they are investigating the death of a man discovered in Chester Creek at about 9:30 a.m. Saturday morning. According to APD spokeswoman, Anita Shell, the man's body was found by a...
View ArticleLocal Students Protest Base Student Allocation
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View ArticleCold Case: APD Asks for Help in Decades-old Murder
It’s a murder from more than 20 years in the past, but on Friday Anchorage Police appealed to the public for help with the death of Debra Ruth Lawson. Lawson, who police say also went by the name...
View ArticleArmy Names JBER Paratrooper Dead After Jump Exercise
The U.S. Army Alaska released the identity Saturday of a paratrooper who died at Providence Medical Center Thursday evening, after a training jump earlier that day. The Army says Sgt. Jose Maria...
View ArticleAnchorage Family Recovers from Fire
An Anchorage family recovers from a fire that's forced them to leave their home. Emergency responders say stories like this are all too common during the winter in Alaska. (KTUU's Austin Baird and...
View ArticleAnchorage Family Survives Fire, Recovering
While most people were watching the Super Bowl, Amanda McAdoo spent Sunday afternoon sifting through the remnants of her home, stuffing heat-warped, ash-covered things into black trash bags. “It might...
View ArticleThe Morning Show (Feb. 3, 2014)
KTUU Channel 2 News presents The Morning Show with Sheila Balistreri and David George.
View ArticleWasilla DUI Suspect Flees, Fights Troopers
A Wasilla woman was arrested on charges including DUI early Sunday, after Alaska State Troopers say she tried to elude them by driving into her garage. According to a Sunday AST dispatch, troopers...
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