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Anna Rose MacArthur

News Director

Anna Rose MacArthur catching a four-wheeler ride in Napakiak, Alaska.
Credit Katie Basile / KYUK

Anna Rose MacArthur serves as KYUK's News Director. 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 leads an award-winning newsroom and has 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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Mulchatna Caribou Hunt Closed To Preserve Declining Herd

By • Jan 12, 2021
Caribou roaming near Denali.
ADF&G

Hunting for Mulchatna caribou is closed on both state and federal lands. Game managers hope that the closure will help the herd grow after years of decline.

Teenager Found Dead Near Napakiak

By • Jan 11, 2021
The Napakiak School fuel storage facility sits 76 feet from the riverbank’s erosion point along the Kuskokwim River on Aug. 16, 2019. The fuel storage facility, owned by the Lower Kuskokwim School District, contains an estimated 36,000 gallons of diesel.
U.S. Coast Guard Sector Anchorage

A teenager was found dead outside the village of Napakiak on Jan. 8. Troopers suspect that Arthur Dull, age 18, died of exposure.

Body Recovered From Open Water Near Tuluksak Identified

By • Jan 11, 2021
Volunteers search for the body of Peter Sallaffie in an open hole in the Kuskokwim River ice near Tuluksak, AK on Jan. 9, 2021. Sallaffie drowned in the open water on Jan. 1, 2021.
BSAR

The body of the man pulled from the open hole near Tuluksak has been identified as Joseph Hale of Hooper Bay.

Local English News: January 11, 2021

By • Jan 11, 2021


YKHC Ahead Of COVID-19 Vaccination Schedule

By • Jan 8, 2021
Loren Holmes / ADN

This week, people in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta are beginning to receive their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Already over 1,550 people in the region have received their first dose. While many areas of the nation are behind schedule in their COVID-19 vaccinations, the opposite is happening in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.


Local English News: January 8, 2021

By • Jan 8, 2021


People Age 16+ In Villages, 50+ In Bethel Eligible For COVID-19 Vaccine Beginning Jan. 11

By • Jan 7, 2021
Loren Holmes / ADN

Beginning Monday, Jan. 11, many more people will be eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.

2 People In Y-K Delta Die Of COVID-19 As Severe Cases Rise Following Christmas Gatherings

By • Jan 7, 2021
Katie Basile / KYUK

On Jan. 6, two people in the region died from complications with COVID-19. One of the individuals was in their 50s; the other was in their 60s. Also that day, a person with COVID-19 was medevaced out of the region for advanced medical care.

How Is COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Going In The Y-K Delta?

By • Jan 7, 2021

Over 1,500 people in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Many will receive their second dose this week, while the distribution of inital doses continues. KYUK's Anna Rose MacArthur talks with Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation Chief of Staff Dr. Ellen Hodges on how COVID-19 vaccine distribution is going in the region.


Local English News: January 7, 2021

By • Jan 7, 2021


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