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Eric Stone
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Sean Case
survey by April 26th.
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Alaska Desk Reporters (Avery Elfelt, Shelby Herbert, Samantha Watson)
What they're telling us is simple. They're tired of changing the clocks.
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Casey Grove
Lawmakers debate whether Alaskans should continue springing forward and falling back for daylight savings. From Alaska Public Media, this is statewide news on Alaska. Welcome to Alaska News nightly for Thursday, April 2nd. Good evening. I'm Casey Grove. Also tonight, it's official this winter has been the coldest on record for Fairbanks.
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Tim Ellis
Halloween was actually the last time at Fairbanks. The airport recorded a temperature above 32 degrees.
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Casey Grove
Those stories and more tonight on Alaska News Nightly.
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Alaska Desk Reporters (Avery Elfelt, Shelby Herbert, Samantha Watson)
Hi, I'm Avery Elfelt, a reporter with the Alaska Desk. That's a joint reporting effort from Alaska Public Media, khns, where I work in Hanes, and other public radio stations in Anchorage, Fairbanks and the Aleutians. It allows us to connect you with the issues happening in communities all across the state. You can hear our stories during the morning news on Alaska News Nightly or online@alaskapublic.org the Alaska Desk is only possible with the support of grants and listeners like you. Thank you.
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Casey Grove
Large majorities of Alaskans tell pollsters they're sick of changing their clocks twice a year. And for years, lawmakers have introduced bills that would stop us from springing forward and falling back. This year is no exception. But as Alaska Public Media's Eric Stone reports, the thornier question is what time should it be?
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Eric Stone
It's principle versus pragmatism, nature versus industry, early birds versus night owls. The one thing three quarters of Alaskans seem to agree on, says Eagle River Republican Senator Kelly Billy Merrick, is that it should be one or the other.
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Alaska Desk Reporters (Avery Elfelt, Shelby Herbert, Samantha Watson)
What they're telling us is simple. They're tired of changing the clocks.
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Eric Stone
She's speaking there to the House State Affairs Committee on a recent Saturday. Merrick is the prime sponsor of a bill the state Senate passed that would petition the federal government to move to permanent daylight saving time in Alaska. One day we'd spring forward and never fall back. Merrick's camp is for the pragmatists. She says permanent standard time would leave Alaska too far behind the rest of the country.
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Alaska Desk Reporters (Avery Elfelt, Shelby Herbert, Samantha Watson)
There are real concerns, concerns about falling out of sync with the rest of the country, about being five hours behind the east coast and two hours behind the west coast, concerns that affect commerce, travel and communication.
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Eric Stone
The travel industry broadly supports the idea, especially the many flight seeing outfits who require daylight to run their tours. Craig Jenison is With Temsco Helicopters based in Ketchikan.
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Casey Grove
It's not just flight operations, but all
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Sean Case
tours that rely on daylight. It's really hard to show off Alaska
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Eric Stone
at night, so that's the case for permanent Daylight Saving Time. In the opposite corner with the principled naturalist early birds is Anchorage Independent Representative Kai Holland.
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Casey Grove
Nothing we do here will change the number of hours in a day, and we cannot legislate the sun to rise early or set later.
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Eric Stone
Holland is behind a competing House bill that would move the state to Permanent Standard Time. We'd fall back and then never again spring forward and Holland says, sure, every summer we'd be five hours behind the East Coast. But then again, Alaska's future future is
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Casey Grove
not limited to the Lower 48 and its three time zones to the east. We're uniquely positioned globally. From here, within a single workday, we can engage with Europe in the morning, the Americas during the day and East Asia in the afternoon.
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Eric Stone
Alaska Standard Time is already about an hour behind the sun. In Anchorage, the sun peaks around 1pm rather than at noon, so moving to permanent daylight time would shift mid winter Sunrises to after 11am in Anchorage and close to noon in Fairbanks. North Pole resident Cam Webb told the committee he didn't want to spend extra month driving to work in the dark.
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Tim Ellis
It would have us live our lives permanently, two hours out of sync with the sun and the stars. This choice represents yet another salvo in the ongoing divorce by tech obsessed humans from the natural world.
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Eric Stone
There are also health effects to consider, physician assistant Lisa Alexia told the committee. Permanent Daylight Saving Time would throw off our body's natural rhythms based on the rising and the setting sun, and that would have all kinds of ill effects on everything from mental health to student achievement.
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Alaska Desk Reporters (Avery Elfelt, Shelby Herbert, Samantha Watson)
People think they want longer evenings like they want to smoke, skip vaccines and skip wearing a seatbelt. But there are public health and public safety and education issues at stake here.
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Eric Stone
Others argue Permanent Daylight Saving Time has been tried before in Russia, the UK, Portugal, even the US for a year in the mid-1970s. All eventually switched back. Whether this is the year for a solution to the biannual clock change problem is unclear. Merrick's Permanent Daylight Saving Time Bill has passed the Senate but has not advanced in the House. Holland's Permanent Standard Time Bill remains in its first House committee. Reporting on Juneau, I'm Eric Stone.
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Casey Grove
After seven years and two trials, there is still no verdict in the case involving a fatal car crash on Unalaska's Mount Ballyhoo. Superior Court Judge Thomas Matthews declared a second mistrial in the case Tuesday after an Anchorage jury once again remained deadlocked.
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Tim Ellis
There is no possibility of reaching a unanimous verdict at this point and for that reason I'm going to thank you for your service. I conclude this matter. I am declaring a mistrial.
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Casey Grove
25 year old Dustin Ruckman is charged with two counts of criminally negligent homicide for his involvement in the 2019 crash that killed two local teen girls. Ruckman's truck rolled from a steep cliff with 16 year old Carly McDonald and 18 year old Kiara Renteria haste inside. Ruckman told police he was thrown from the truck. The two local girls were also thrown but died in the fall. A year ago in Anchorage, the first trial ended in a hung jury. The state retried Ruckman this month in hopes that a new group could deliver a verdict. However, after about a week's time and three full days of deliberation, the jury could not agree.
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Tim Ellis
They have been careful in the information that they have asked to review. They have focused on the fact of this case. They have focused on the photographic evidence and the percipient witness testimony in their review. It is my belief that they have done all we can ask them to do in trying to come to a unanimous decision.
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Casey Grove
Matthews says jurors delivered their first note last Thursday saying they were unable to come to an undivided verdict. He declared another mistrial Tuesday afternoon after polling each juror individually. Alyssa McDonald is Carly's mother. She says she's frustrated with the legal system and with what she calls a lack of responsibility. She says that after the first trial, it took her several months to get back to a normal mental state. It felt like reliving the day of the crash all over again, McDonald says. This time is not much different.
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Alaska Desk Reporters (Avery Elfelt, Shelby Herbert, Samantha Watson)
I'm going to continue to try to find meaning in life. I'm going to continue to try to find
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Bobby Bianco
compassion for people and I'm going
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Alaska Desk Reporters (Avery Elfelt, Shelby Herbert, Samantha Watson)
to continue to try to have a legacy for the girls.
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Casey Grove
As for yet another trial, McDonald says she's not sure if she's up for the challenge.
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Alaska Desk Reporters (Avery Elfelt, Shelby Herbert, Samantha Watson)
It's expensive for us to do it. It doesn't change the outcome.
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Casey Grove
Defense attorney Julia Moudi declined a request for comment. State prosecutor John Skidmore did not immediately respond to a request. The court will return for a hearing on April 30. Matthews will address any motions that have been filed and hear from the state on their future plans with the case. Foreign. The National Weather Service has updated the emergency phone alert messaging that Alaskans receive when a tsunami is expected. Dave Snyder, the tsunami warning coordinator with the National Tsunami Warning center in Palmer, says the new wording is intended to reduce confusion for people who get the tsunami emergency alert but are not in risky areas. A 2023 earthquake near Sand Point, for example, triggered emergency tsunami alerts across huge swaths of Alaska, with older messaging saying, quote, you are in danger, move to high ground or inland now, end quote. Here's Snyder. When that happens, though, that language needs to be very specific to tell the right people to move to the right place at the right time. In that 2023 case, that short, simple language was correct for people near the quake but problematic for people that were not at risk. Snyder says the system's geographic imprecision is the underlying issue. What we really need to solve this problem is a way to reach alerting areas that are specifically targeted for only tsunami hazard areas, those areas that are risk from tsunami. We don't have that today. We're relying on other systems both within the weather service and outside of the weather service to reach our coastal communities in that moment of alert. The updated alert message went into effect March 24 during national tsunami Awareness Week. Still to come in Alaska News Nightly, friends and family of Bethel Musher Pete Kaiser celebrate his Iditarod legacy. People in the Delta just loved it. The fact that we have a champion from Bethel and from southwest Alaska. That's ahead. Stay with us.
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Alaska Desk Reporters (Avery Elfelt, Shelby Herbert, Samantha Watson)
I'm Shelby Herbert, a reporter with the Alaska Desk. That's a joint reporting effort from Alaska Public Media and kuac, where I work in Fairbanks, and other public radio stations in Anchorage Haines and the illusions. It allows us to connect to the issues happening in communities all across the state. You can hear our stories during the morning news, Alaska News Nightly or online@alaskapublic.org the Alaska Desk is only possible with the support of grants and listeners like you. Thank you.
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Casey Grove
Anchorage police released new information today about a shooting incident last weekend in which police say a man started a fire in a home on the city's south side and shot at officers before an officer shot back. The man died, but police officials said today it was still unclear whether the fire or the officer's gunshots killed him. Alaska Public Media's Wesley early has more.
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Sean Case
Speaking at a press conference, Anchorage Police Chief Sean Case said police received reports of as many as half a dozen gunshots in the Shore drive area about 3:30am Saturday.
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Eric Stone
At this time, the only thing that I know is that the rounds woke up neighbors up, so I don't have any indication of anything that happened prior
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Sean Case
to that K says officers arrived about nine minutes later and were sporadically fired on for about a half hour. He says they launched a drone to help identify where the shots were coming from. About 15 minutes after officers arrived, a neighbor told them the shots were coming from a home on nearby Shore Circle. Case says officers saw a man later identified as 43 year old Micah Bonin shooting from the second story window of a home.
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Eric Stone
We observed a fire that started in the second floor where the subject was. We also knew there was two different caliber guns being used by the subject, case says.
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Sean Case
The fire spread across the second floor and Bonin later started shooting from a window on the first floor. During remarks shortly after the shooting Saturday, police said they believe Bonin started the fire and there was no one else in the home. After Bonin went to the first floor, Officer Jacob Jones approached the home from the west side and fired three to four rounds through a window that Bonin had broken. Case says it's unclear if Bonin died as a result of being shot or due to the fire.
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Eric Stone
All I can say is is that after the rounds were fired, the subject was observed going down.
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Sean Case
Case says body worn cameras on the officers recorded the incident. He says police won't release the cause of Bonin's death and that they will leave that to the state medical examiner's office. Anchorage firefighters were able to extinguish the fire later Saturday morning. Jones, the officer who shot at Bonin, had previously shot two different people in 2024, one fatally. Jones is a canine officer who works the night shift, and Case says that means he often responds to high risk calls.
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Eric Stone
Those factors put him in a position where he just has the opportunity to be in the calls that may lead to officer involved shootings.
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Sean Case
Jones was placed on administrative leave for four days following the shooting. Saturday. The state Office of Special Prosecutions will review the incident to determine if Jones was legally justified in using deadly force. Case says body camera footage of the incident as well as footage from the drone will be publicly released at a later date. The department's policy is to release footage within 45 days of an incident involving deadly force, though with some exceptions, the Anchorage Police Department hasn't met that deadline for any of the 13 police shootings since Anchorage officers started getting outfitted with body worn Cameras in late 2023. In the Saturday shooting, Case says he anticipates the footage will be released between 45 and 60 days, depending on when the state finishes its investigation. The Saturday's police shooting is the first in Anchorage this year. Last year, Anchorage officers shot five people, three of whom died. Reporting in Anchorage, I'm Wesley Early.
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Casey Grove
The Juneau assembly voted last night to end the city's involvement in Eaglecrest ski area's controversial gondola project and pay back a $10 million investment from Goldbelt Incorporated. The Assembly's vote came during a Finance Committee meeting, which means it isn't final. Procedurally, the assembly still needs to introduce an ordinance, take public testimony and take a vote. But Wednesday's 63 vote marked a major pivot away from the city's investment in the gondola project, which has been plagued with controversy since it was purchased in 2022. Its price tag has ballooned to a potential cost of as much as $37 million. Assembly members Christine Wall, Paul Kelly, Ella Atkisson, Nano Brooks, Alicia Hughes Scandis and Mayor Beth Weldon voted in favor of the motion to end the project, while Deputy Mayor Greg Smith and Assembly members Neil Steininger and Maureen hall voted against it. Here's Christine Wall explaining her vote.
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Alaska Desk Reporters (Avery Elfelt, Shelby Herbert, Samantha Watson)
We have to stop this current situation we're in of losing money for a project that will not pencil out in its current form.
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Casey Grove
Steininger, who's the assembly liaison to the Eagle Crest board, says he's not ready to give up. He argues the assembly is moving forward to end the project prematurely.
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Eric Stone
It is a project that's profitable, and yes, it is expensive to get there. But even with that expense, it still pencils out as a project, and I think we need to do a little bit more due diligence about before we say we're going to completely stop this project.
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Casey Grove
Despite the Assembly's vote, the door is not fully closed on the gondola. In the motion, the assembly asks the Eagle Crest board to continue searching for other project investors who might want to pay for the gondola project themselves. In an interview after the vote, Eagle Crest's board chair, Brandon Cullum says he's not surprised by the Assembly's decision, but is still optimistic the project might still be built. You know, I think it's just a matter of getting professional help and, you know, framing our presentation in a way that's attractive and competent and just seeing if anyone out there wants to take advantage of the opportunities we have. The cost for the city backing out of the revenue sharing agreement with Gold belt is roughly $9 million. How that will be paid for is still up in the air, though. The assembly asked city staff to look for other avenues of compensation that aren't just cash. The Assembly's proposed ordinance is slated to be up for public hearing on May 18. The National Weather Service and Fairbanks on Tuesday confirmed what pretty much anyone who spent a few winters in the interior might have been thinking this winter was the city's coldest on record. KUAC's Tim Ellis reports.
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Bobby Bianco
A Fairbanks Weather Service office news release issued Tuesday spells it out. It says we've edged the legendary winter of 1965-66 to take the number one spot. The winter of 2025, 26 earned the top spot after the past three months of mainly sub zero temperatures. The weather service says the average temperature in Fairbanks from December to March was almost 14 degrees below zero, making that period the coldest since records began being kept more than a century ago.
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Tim Ellis
Halloween was actually the last time that Fairbanks, the airport recorded the temperature above 32 degrees. We hit 32 once in January, but that hasn't been above 32 since Halloween.
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Bobby Bianco
Meteorologist Bobby Bianco says the long cold spell began in early December and persisted until just recently. There were a few brief respites along the way when winter storms blew through and dumped in some cases record amounts of snow on Fairbanks, but otherwise it was just plain nippy.
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Tim Ellis
And it was just a cold pattern that we were in because we had the cold stretch in December and January and then we had a little bit of snow and then it came back in February through most of March.
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Bobby Bianco
He says the cold temperatures were caused, ironically, by warm air located about 600 miles away off the western coast of Alaska.
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Tim Ellis
There was a ridge of high pressure aloft that was sitting over the Bering Sea, which is why there was some warmer temperatures along the coast and up towards the North Slope, and that high pressure would pull the colder air over the state.
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Bobby Bianco
He said the weather system just sat there for several months, funneling cold air from the Arctic into the interior, pushing temperatures in Fairbanks down to around 30 to 40 below for weeks at a time.
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Tim Ellis
So we just had a bubble of cold air that was sitting over us for most of the winter.
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Bobby Bianco
The high pressure ridge finally gave way over the past couple of weeks, ushering in more spring like weather. Bianco says by the end of April, temperatures may climb into the 50s.
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Tim Ellis
So still, you know, seasonably mild. It's not going to ramp up super quick just yet, but we're seeing a gradual warm up through this weekend into next week and potentially the week after as well. So we'll start seeing definitely more melting as we head into next week.
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Bobby Bianco
Bianco says there's really no way to predict whether we're in for another cold winter next year, but he says this winter was so cold because of some unusual weather phenomena and he thinks that's unlikely to happen again next winter.
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Tim Ellis
It's probably not going to happen, but I'm not going to say it's not happening for sure.
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Bobby Bianco
He did, however, feel confident enough to make one extra long range forecast about the winter of 2026, 27.
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Tim Ellis
Yeah, it'll be cold in Alaska. Shocking discovery in Delta Junction.
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Bobby Bianco
I'm Tim Ellis.
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Casey Grove
A December storm that damaged on Alaska's coastline and roads could cost more than $20 million to repair and the state has agreed to help fund it. Governor Mike Dunleavy approved a disaster declaration emergency earlier in mid March. The city formally requested aid in February and submitted preliminary damage assessments for Summer Bay Road, Airport, Beach Road and Captains Bay Road. The storm hit Unalaska in late December, bringing 100 mile per hour gusts, elevated tides and a storm surge that swept the coastline. It damaged the airport's Runway and closed off Summer Bay Road for vehicles. Alaska's Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management will fund repairs through its public assistance program. Brian Thacker is the director of the City of Unalaska Department of Public Works. He says the scope of work and timeline on permanent fixes depends on that process. Strong storms are a common occurrence in Unalaska, and the city is also working with the Kowalungan tribe of Unalaska and the Unalaska Corporation to best prepare for future events. Ketchikan is expected to see over 1.6 million cruise ship visitors this summer. That's more than the island has ever seen. The visitors bureau expects 58 ships this summer, which is 10 more than last year. Lori Boissa is the city's tourism manager. She acts as a liaison between the city and the local tourism industry.
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Eric Stone
We are seeing some bigger ships come in this upcoming summer and that is going to mean that our infrastructure is going to be affected a little bit differently. But as a city, we are prepared to do what we need to do to make sure that people stay safe and that the downtown area stays clean.
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Casey Grove
One proposal, which the council has been discussing for several months, is constructing a public bathroom in the main downtown area on Creek Street. But that isn't expected to happen in time for this summer. The number of ships visiting the island has not been increasing much, but the capacity of the ships has been steadily increasing. Boyce says the largest cruise ship set to visit can carry over 4,000 passengers. With Juneau's passenger cap going into effect this summer, the first city could see nearly as many cruise ship visitors as the capital city. Juneau's visitor industry director, Alex Pierce, says the cap has led to increased visitation in Catchikan. Juneau canceled a few Royal Caribbean calls to meet the Caps, and they ended up shifting to Ketchikan's Ward Cove instead. Voisa says that she expects the island will see more increases than just cruise ship visitors this summer. She says in recent years, the number of airline and ferry visitors has crept up significantly, and the visitors who come by ferry or plane stay for multiple days and are looking for a wider variety of experiences.
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Eric Stone
So they want to kind of dive deeper into the community and you may see them coming to, say, the monthly Grind or going to Fish Pirate's Daughter or experiencing more of those kinds of things.
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Casey Grove
Boyce says with more visitors staying for longer periods of time, the community needs to decide how and where they want to develop across the island rather than just in the downtown area. Some of those developments are already in the works at Ward Cove, with existing downtown businesses expected to expand out north as soon as this summer. The first cruise ship of the season is expected to dock in ketchikan on Sunday, April 12th. Well, bethel musher Pete Kaiser took ninth place in this year's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. He was the only musher representing the YK Delta, a region rich in the sport's history and culture. KYUK's Samantha Watson reports on what it meant to his home community to be represented on the iconic Thousand Mile Trail.
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Alaska Desk Reporters (Avery Elfelt, Shelby Herbert, Samantha Watson)
When Ron Kaiser talks about the year his son won the Iditarod, it's like he's transported back to a particular moment, a place along the finish line. Shoot.
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Casey Grove
The happiness was thick in the air. There's 60 or 80 Bethel people that had flown in. It was just unreal. Never had a feeling like it.
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Alaska Desk Reporters (Avery Elfelt, Shelby Herbert, Samantha Watson)
In 2019, Ron's son Pete Kaiser was the Iditarod champion that year. The finish line was full of community members that had last minute chartered a plane from Bethel to welcome their musher into Nome. Back home in Bethel, though, Kaiser says it was an even bigger deal. The city of Bethel declared the day he won a town holiday, Pete Kaiser Day.
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Casey Grove
People in the Delta just loved it. The fact that we have a champion from Bethel and from southwest Alaska and a Yupik, you know, of Yupik descent musher.
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Alaska Desk Reporters (Avery Elfelt, Shelby Herbert, Samantha Watson)
Kaiser remembers after that time he met someone in Bethel who was excited to learn he was the champion's dad.
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Casey Grove
Yeah, he's dead. Man, he sure made a lot of people happy around here.
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Alaska Desk Reporters (Avery Elfelt, Shelby Herbert, Samantha Watson)
After not running in 2025, Ron Kaiser says his son's decision to enter the race felt a little extra exciting for the family, and it made a lot of other people happy, too. Kaiser says since his son registered for the race, he's heard from lots of people, people the family doesn't even know that well that they were excited to see him running, kaiser says. It's like having your own horse in the race, someone to cheer for that gives the big event personal stakes. For others, though, it's simply about seeing someone you know do something big.
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Tim Ellis
Well, it made the race quite a bit more exciting.
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Alaska Desk Reporters (Avery Elfelt, Shelby Herbert, Samantha Watson)
This is Akiak musher Mike Williams Jr.
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Tim Ellis
I followed it a lot more than I would have had to not run. Me and Pete go way back.
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Alaska Desk Reporters (Avery Elfelt, Shelby Herbert, Samantha Watson)
Williams Jr. Says he and Kaiser have been racing against each other since they were in high school in the early 2000s. Under the burled arch in Nome, Kaiser's family and close friends are bundled peeking out down Front street for a sign of their finisher. Among them is Iditarod alum Andy Engstman, who grew up in Bethel with Keyser. Engstman says he's here to be among the first to congratulate his friend. But it's also big to see a piece of home on the largest mushing state.
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Tim Ellis
Just so exciting to come and see Bethel representation represented here. And it's good for our town and it's, it's, you know, my hometown, Pete's hometown. And so I hope he keeps doing it. I don't know if he will, but, you know, I wanted to make sure I was here in 2026.
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Alaska Desk Reporters (Avery Elfelt, Shelby Herbert, Samantha Watson)
Sliding in for his ninth place finish, Pete Kaiser receives a warm welcome of embraces from his pieces of home Online, hundreds of fans from the YK Delta pepper comments with lifted hand emojis and words of congratulations. There's a lot of hometown love for Kaiser, but also for the sport itself.
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Casey Grove
We have such a strong, mushing community out there and, you know, more of it's based towards the shorter races and stuff. But there has been several of us over the last 15 to 20 years, myself, Mike Williams Jr. And Richie that have made quite an effort at IDY.
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Alaska Desk Reporters (Avery Elfelt, Shelby Herbert, Samantha Watson)
It's something he hopes more mushers from the region, including the younger generations, can get to take part in.
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Casey Grove
You know, logistically it's hard to pull off, but I think as a community and region, I'm sure we could support somebody that wants to do it and try to get them here at the
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Alaska Desk Reporters (Avery Elfelt, Shelby Herbert, Samantha Watson)
finish line in Nome. I'm Samantha Watson.
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Casey Grove
And that is all for this edition of Alaska News Nightly we had reports tonight from Eric Stone and Clarice Larson in Juneau, Maggie Nelson and Sophia. Stuart Rossi in Unalaska, Davis Hovey in Kodiak, Wesley early in Anchorage, Tim Ellis in Delta Junction, Sydney Dauphine in Catchikan and Samantha Watson in Nome. Our audio engineers, Crystal Hyde. Kirsten Dobroth is our producer, and I'm Casey Grove. Good night. This is statewide news on Alaska Public Media.