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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Areas affected will be First Avenue, Front Street, Second Avenue, Third Avenue, the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge building, and nearby Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation buildings.
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Peltola, who is Yup’ik, is an ONC tribal member, and her mother is a Kwethluk tribal member.
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The next lower Kuskokwim River gillnet opening is meant to target sockeye salmon. Set nets will be allowed below the Kalskag Bluffs on Saturday, July 16 from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.
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On average, 1 million fall chum return to the Yukon River each year. This fall, state biologists expect less than 300,000 to return.
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The openings are on July 9, 10, and 16.
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The state-run projects are the only legal means of targeting Chinook and chum on the Yukon this year.
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“It’s very, very quiet at the public boat landing in town. Almost eerily quiet," a caller who identified herself as Ruby in Eagle said during a teleconference hosted by the Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association.
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“Some days it’ll get really bad, and then it’ll get good for a couple of days, then it’ll come in again. Whole month of June has been like that,” Sleetmute Tribal Council President Ellen Yako said.
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The annual parade through town will be followed by festivities in Pinky’s Park.
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The step came after the Rasmuson Foundation announced a $500,000 grant to the project.