In Three Days, Three Rescues for Missing Snowmachiners
Three separate incidents of missing snowmachiners in Western Alaska all ended in successful rescues last week.
At Midnite Sun Ranch, Youth Summit Aims to Revitalize Reindeer Herding with a New Generation
Bruce Davis, who owns and operates the ranch with his wife Ann, says that they want to let western Alaska children know “that there’s reindeer here on the Seward Peninsula, and it’s a way to make a living.”
August ’93: Maars!
August 6, 1993 On KNOM’s daily feature interview program, Alaska volcanologist Jim Beget informs listeners that large lakes on the northern Seward Peninsula are actually maars, the widest volcanic openings in the world. They last erupted ten thousand years ago.
A trip to Elim, Alaska
Thanks to a sponsorship with a regional air carrier, KNOM Radio is frequently the beneficiary of free air travel to many of the communities we serve. We view these “village trips” as essential to our mission; it gives us a vital opportunity to connect with our listeners in person and to do live reporting, on […]
Conversations in rural Alaska
A regular part of our mission is to send our hardworking volunteers to the rural, isolated villages in our listening area, especially when events rally those communities together around a particular cause. Last month, volunteers Eva DeLappe and Lucus Keppel visited one of the communities closest to KNOM: Teller, a village on the coast of […]
August 1993: What’s a maar?
August 6, 1993 On KNOM’s daily feature interview program, Alaska volcanologist Jim Beget informs listeners that the large lakes on the northern Seward Peninsula are actually maars, the widest volcanic openings in the world. They last erupted ten thousand years ago.