90.3 KNBA is Alaska's Native voice and the leading news source in the state when it comes to Alaska Native and Indigenous issues and policy. Hosted by award-winning journalist and broadcaster Tripp J Crouse (Ojibwe), KNBA News strives to make 90.3 KNBA, Alaska's Native voice. KNBA is a subsidiary of Koahnic Broadcast Corporation and based in Anchorage, Alaska.
The second and final day of the AFN convention is packed with guests and big conversations. Sponsors of a ballot initiative took the opportunity to say their piece on why tribal recognition in the... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
Day One of the annual AFN convention featured all three of Alaska's sitting lawmakers. Alaska Republican Congressman Don Young spoke to the strengths of AFN and the landmark legislation known as the... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
The Alaska Federation of Natives is the largest convention of Alaska Natives in the state. Affectionately called “Native New Year,” the convention is an opportunity for Indigenous people across the... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
The Haines Sheldon Museum is showcasing a display of newly revealed Lingít formline images . The museum staff used an infrared camera to photograph traditional bentwood boxes to reveal paintings, not... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
Governor Mike Dunleavy is proposing additional hunting opportunities in the Matanuska-Susitna region by bringing in Sitka black-tailed deer . A state document obtained by the Anchorage Daily News... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
Fishing vessels cast wide nets, and they often catch more than the species they're targeting. That's bycatch: one of the longest-running controversies in the fleet and a vexing problem for fisheries... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
President Joe Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law on Monday, November 15. The Senate passed the $1.2 trillion dollar bill in August. Thirteen Republicans -- including... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
The first international Indigenous musical festival -- Rock Aak'w showcased several Native artists. For several artists, this was their first time on the mainstage of a festival. Rock Aak'w brought... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
Fourteen musical acts will participate in an international Indigenous music festival based in Juneau. Alaska Native musicians will join several others in the virtual festival called Rock Aak'w .... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
Bering Strait region Tribal consortium Kawerak published a language glossary which provides terms in research, science and policy in English, Inupiaq, St. Lawrence Island Yupik, and Yup'ik. The... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
For more than 60 years, the Eklutna River north of Anchorage had been dammed up, stifling the salmon runs that fed generations of Dena'ina people in the area. Before the damming, for hundreds of... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
Content warning: This story contains accounts from descendants of boarding school survivors that may be distressing for some readers. As the sun rose on Thursday, K'aaxnaa.at Bamby James and the... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
A man who pleaded guilty to killing a 10-year-old Kotzebue girl has been sentenced to 99 years in prison. Utqiaġvik Superior Court Judge Nelson Traverso sentenced Peter Vance Wilson on September... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced earlier this month that all major crab stocks are down. And for the first time in over 25 years, the Bristol Bay red king crab fishery will be closed... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
The last time political boundaries were redrawn, Southeast lost a senator and a House member which diminished its voice in the legislature. So there was some relief when the draft redistricting maps... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
A new University of Alaska Fairbanks study featured on the cover of the journal Science explores the life story of a woolly mammoth that lived 17,000 years ago. Thousands of years ago a woolly... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
The American Civil Liberties Union wants a federal court to hold the city of Nome in contempt – for allegedly withholding police audits and emails in a legal case against the Nome police department.... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
Congress set aside $8 billion for tribal entities across the country as part of the federal CARES Act. But it took a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June to free up some of those pandemic relief funds... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
The award-winning podcast “This Land” returns for a second season . This one examines the legal attacks on a 40-plus-year old federal law meant to protect Native children in the U.S. The first season... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
Seal meat makes up a good portion of what's in subsistence hunters' freezers in Kotzebue. However, the sea ice the seals haul out on is diminishing, and new research has shown the window to hunt... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
A ballot measure initiative seeks to have the state of Alaska officially recognize and acknowledge the 229 federally recognized Alaska Native Tribes. The initiative models itself on a piece of state... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
Alaska's racial and ethnic diversity increased over the last 10 years, according to U.S. census numbers released. The share of Alaska's population that identifies as a race or ethnicity other than... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
An Alaska Native comic artist will release a book heavily influenced by stories passed down to him by his grandmother. Growing up in Alaska, Dimi Macheras loved drawing and illustrating and comic... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
Paralytic shellfish poisoning, caused by eating seafood contaminated with toxins from harmful algal blooms, can be deadly to humans. Now, using marine samples from Unalaska, scientists are trying to... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
A two-year project honoring Alaska's veterans is finally complete. A few hundred people sat for five hours in the rain to witness the raising of a totem pole honoring the community's service men and... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
Mabel Baldwin-Schaeffer is the first Tribal coordinator for the Alaska Fisheries Science Center's Communications Program . She was born and raised in Kiana, a small Iñupiaq village on the Kobuk River... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
When the COVID pandemic closed the Haines' Senior Center, the lunch program turned into a daily delivery , and it's become a vital service for local seniors in Haines and Klukwan, and there's room... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
Qacung Stephen Blanchett's new album may be solo, but it has some big Indigenous pop super group energy . Qacung, who is one of the co-creators of the Inuit band Pamyua, brought several other... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
Former Bethel elementary school principal Christopher Carmichael received a 25-year sentence in Bethel on July 21, 2021, for a state charge of sexual assault of a minor in the second degree. (Photo... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm announced 13 Tribal energy grants, about half of which are going to Alaska Native communities. Granholm said the grants from the Office of Indian Energy will... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
Fifty years ago, the federal government recognized the Kenaitze Indian Tribe as a sovereign nation. This anniversary year, the Tribe is expanding. It's raising a new building on the corner of the... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
The COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted just about everything, including food shipments to grocery stores. all over Alaska. Last year, Alaskans really felt it, with some products just not available.... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
First Lady Jill Biden visited Anchorage on Wednesday to talk with health officials and get a glimpse of how Tribal health care works in Alaska. During First Lady Jill Biden's visit to the Alaska... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
Annauk Olin and her mother, Maggie Pollock, translated information about the COVID-19 vaccine and the Census into Iñupiaq. The mother-and-daughter duo worked on a panel working to translate... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
As our climate changes around us, the unusual is becoming more frequent. Whether it be shorter snow seasons, intense wildfires, or most recently-- storms and lightning across the Chukchi and Beaufort... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
At the turn of the 20th century, the federal government created boarding schools in an attempt to assimilate Indigenous children into “American society.” The lasting legacy of the boarding school era... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
Gwich'in artist Colleen Firmin Thomas is from Fort Yukon and is known for her abstract paintings. In her piece, “Boundaries as Battlelines,” Thomas uses a brush to make vertical stacks of gray and... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
The mood is buzzy as we make the walk from the local Tlingit Tribe's cultural center to Wrangell's Reliance Harbor. Sixth-grader Devin Aleksiev is already wearing his life jacket, which he... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
The remains of an Alaska Native student buried more than 100 years ago at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania will return to Alaska. Beginning June 19, the U.S Army will begin the... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
The Juneau Assembly started to include a land acknowledgment as part of its regular meetings in February and made it an official part of meetings in May. But then it got a letter from a group called... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
Former Lieutenant Governor Valerie Nurr'araaluk Davidson will step down from her role as president of Alaska Pacific University to lead the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium as its president. In... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
The University of Alaska will launch a system-wide program geared toward retaining more Alaska Native students at the school and increasing the number of Alaska Native staff members. The school... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
Regulations for halibut charters are looser this summer for the second year in a row . The bodies regulating halibut fishing in Alaska relaxed restrictions on the fleet to again make fishing more... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
Usually, a couple of big cruise ships would be dwarfing charter boats in Bartlett Cove on a summer day. But not today. Cruise ships aren't scheduled to return until late July. Most visitors to... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
It's pretty well established that Alaska has more rivers and streams than any other state in the United States — which is hardly surprising, since it's the largest state. Exactly how many of those... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
While the Kenai Peninsula is relatively lucky that the ecosystems here are fairly intact, there are still a handful of invasive species making their way into the streams, fields and gardens here . In... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
Since 2019, 11,402 people have had their birth dates and driver's license numbers published accidentally, due to a glitch in the Anchorage Police Department records system , the department announced... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
Sea ice in the Arctic serves as a habitat for polar bears and their prey, ice seals. The ice doesn't follow international boundaries, and monitoring the migration of these species requires access to... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
The leadership of Sealaska, the Native corporation for Southeast Alaska, is asking its shareholders to approve the creation of a type of tax shelter called a trust . Sealaska says it wants to take... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
A bill protecting the graves of Unangax̂ people forced to live in internment camps in Funter Bay passed the Alaska Legislature on May 17 and now awaits Gov. Dunleavy's signature. When the Japanese... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
A state historical commission took up the task of naming -- and renaming -- some landmarks in Alaska. Back in April 5 2021, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough Planning Commission passed a resolution to... Visit knba.org/news to get more information.
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