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April 19, 2021 by Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments this morning about whether Alaska Native corporations can receive a portion of the $8 billion earmarked in the CARES Act for tribal governments. The case turns on a problematic sentence that specifically includes Alaska Native corporations and then seems to exclude them …

Pokémon fashion has come a long way. The gaming empire now collaborates with luxury brands in clothes you can wear inside and outside of the virtual world.

Some video game fans chide others for not "getting good" enough to beat tough games. But frequent failure can foster personal growth and knit communities together.

Bowie, named after pop icon David Bowie, has clawed its way to internet stardom. The split-color crustacean was caught by a lobster fisherman off the coast of Maine.

When the Coast Guard Cutter Douglas Munro was commissioned in 1971, the world was a very different place. Iran had a progressive secular government, Muammar Gaddafi had just come to power in Libya, and the Twin Towers were undergoing construction. The Munro has served through a half-century of changing national security conditions, and many generations …

The U.N. Security Council vetoed a U.S. resolution on the war. Gilad Erdan, Israel's U.N. ambassador, said the council "is incapable of doing the most basic task of condemning ISIS-like terrorists."

After a nasty computer glitch five months ago, Voyager 1 is once again able to communicate with Earth in a way that mission operators can understand.

April 22, 2021 by Angela Denning, KFSK – Petersburg Humpback whale entangled in commercial lobster gear, sighted off San Diego in 2015. The main threats identified for the whales were ship strikes and fishing gear entanglements. (Courtesy of NOAA, photographed under NOAA permit #: 18786) The National Marine Fisheries Service published a final rule on April 21 …

The National Dog Show has been a staple of Thanksgiving Day for two decades. This year, it features three new breeds: the Bracco Italiano, the Russian toy and the mudi.

April 20, 2021 by Jacob Resneck, CoastAlaska State environmental regulators announced Monday they’re expanding radiation testing of commercially harvested Alaska seafood, including crab, using a gamma radiation detector at a state laboratory in Anchorage. That’s thanks to continued federal funding from the Food and Drug Administration. A devastating earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Japan in 2011 …