Anna Rose MacArthur
Anna Rose MacArthur served as KYUK's News Director from 2015-2022. She got her start reporting at KNOM in Nome, Alaska and then traveled south to report with KRTS in Marfa, Texas. Anna Rose soon missed rural Alaska and returned to join KYUK in 2015. She leaded an award-winning newsroom and launched statewide public radio reporting collaborations. Her journalism has received a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award and statewide awards for coverage on climate change, health, business, education, and mushing. Anna Rose’s favorite stories to tell include a muskox, salmon, or sled dog. Her work has appeared on NPR, 99 Percent Invisible, HowSound, and Transom. She was a 2020 fellow in the Editorial Integrity and Leadership Initiative, a partnership between the CPB and Arizona State University Cronkite School of Journalism. Anna Rose is a Transom Story Workshop alumni.
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Police have arrested and charged a suspect with first degree murder and burglary. -
Managers making the regulations say opening the fishery could jeopardize the Chinook and summer chum runs long-term. -
In an online update, fire officials say that several Native allotments along the Andreafsky River remain at potential risk from the fire, but the nearest cabin sits 5 miles away. -
In a statement, the health corporation said that it has ordered the vaccinations for this age group and expects to begin administering them on July 6, if the doses arrive as scheduled. -
You can expect to find mostly Sockeye salmon in the fish bin. -
The next gillnet opening for lower Kuskokwim River waters, from the mouth upstream to the Kalskag Bluffs, is scheduled for June 22 from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. -
The state has established a fire response hub in Aniak to issue supplies to the surrounding fires. -
Many local individuals and organizations worked together to help the people who relocated to Bethel. Here is a list of some of them. -
“We’re still concerned. We’re not going to say that this fire is done just because we’ve had a couple days of good weather, but it certainly is looking better over here than it was before,” Bureau of Land Management Fire Analysist John Kern said. -
No gillnet openings have been announced for the lower Kuskokwim River after the opening on June 16. The 12-hour opening runs 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. from the river’s mouth, upstream to Aniak. The waters upstream of Aniak opened to gillnets full-time on June 12.
