Jill Burke
Investigate Reporter
Anchorage, AK
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Jill is an award-winning Investigative Reporter and spearheads the "2Investigates" unit at KTUU/KYES
(Photo Credit: Freeze Frame Photography)
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The latest step in move that has potential to help reshape college sports came two days after Texas and Oklahoma requested to join the SEC in 2025.
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ESPN, which owns the SEC Network, signed a $3 billion deal with the SEC last year that will give the network the broadcast rights to all the conference’s football games starting in 2024.
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The Anchorage Assembly passed an ordinance Tuesday that approves a new special assistant position, after removing language that caused concern from Mayor Dave Bronson's administration.
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Lavetta Langdon, who is 80 years old, was sentenced eight to 10 years for murdering her husband, Larry Langdon, in August 2020.
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Carl Nassib made his announcement in a video posted on his Instagram account.
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A Wasilla family's pet cat returned home with a bullet injury. Now, they want answers.
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The Conservation Fund and Pedro Bay Corporation announced they’d entered into a $20 million agreement to place 44,000 acres of land into conservation easements.
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Rescuers describe their efforts to successfully extract 12 stranded mountaineers from a high-altitude glacier in Alaska.
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Alaskans respond to the decision of the U.S. Department of the Interior to suspend oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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Alaska will offer tourists free COVID-19 vaccines beginning June 1.
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Fraudulent farm loans are a known problem within the SBA's small business COVID-19 loan program. Here's what happened to one Anchorage victim of the scheme.
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A longtime police detective with the Fairbanks Police Dept. resigned abruptly Monday, citing a toxic work environment, sexual harassment and retaliation.
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The Navy’s troubles have caused delays and cost billions of dollars. They come as tensions are growing in the South China Sea, Russia’s navy is emboldened, Iranian speedboats are harassing vessels in the Persian Gulf.
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The Alaska Court System has restored some online services following a cyberattack.
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Cyberattacks have interrupted the state's court system and health department, and the cause is still unknown.
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As Georgia-based Colonial Pipeline reported making “substantial progress” in restoring full service, two people briefed on the matter confirmed that the company had paid the criminals a ransom of about $5 million in cryptocurrency for the software decryption key required to unscramble their data network.
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Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy proposes constitutional protection for energy subsidies to rural Alaska.
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The Anchorage School District is revising its policy on cultural regalia at graduation ceremonies after two seniors were prohibited from wearing traditional attire with their cap and gown.
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Part of the government’s plan to manage thousands of children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border involves about a dozen unlicensed emergency facilities inside military installations, stadiums and convention centers that skirt state regulations and don’t require traditional legal oversight.
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A Fairbanks teacher is on paid suspension for classroom remarks the school district calls "racially insensitive."
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COVID-19 rental assistance is on its way to landlords and utilities on behalf of tenants, but many who applied have yet to see the money.
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The FBI searched the home and business of a couple from Homer on April 28 looking for items stolen from the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Newly unsealed court records show agents believed a woman seen assisting in the theft of a computer belonging to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was Marilyn Hueper of Homer.
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A married couple from Alaska says the FBI entered and searched their Homer Inn and Spa, looking for items stolen from the nation's Capitol Jan. 6, including Nancy Pelosi's computer.
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A Wasilla woman was shot four times at home Sunday night and her husband is charged with her murder, according to Alaska State Troopers.
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School staff and parents say an older woman in a red SUV has approached students and asked them to go with her. Local law enforcement agencies are investigating the suspicious behavior.
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The state of Alaska has launched a new media campaign urging Alaskans to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
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The NTSB held a board meeting Tuesday to discuss its final report and recommendations related to the 2019 mid-air collision of two flight seeing planes on Misty Fjords National Monument in Ketchikan.
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The climate crisis poses a complex political challenge for Biden, since the problem is harder to see and far more difficult to produce measurable results on than either the coronavirus pandemic relief package or the infrastructure bill.
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A grandfather shot his mask-wearing grandson who was breaking into his home in North Carolina, according to authorities.
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Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy says his administration is making changes to how thoroughly it vets candidates for high-level positions.
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The National Transportation Safety Board has released the preliminary report for the helicopter crash that killed five people near Knick Glacier late last month.
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy is optimistic about the state's recovery amid the ongoing pandemic.
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On Tuesday, the NTSB inspected wreckage from the March 27 fatal helicopter crash near the Knik Glacier.
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Col. James Cockrell named as Commissioner for the Alaska Department of Public Safety.
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Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers are demanding a new trial more than a year after his rape conviction.
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Friends and family say Zach Russell, 33, was "born to fly," an avid outdoorsman who was as kind and giving as he was strong.
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Investigators hope recovering the wreckage of a helicopter that collided with a mountain will help yield clues about what caused the crash.
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Here's what we know about the five men killed in a mountainside helicopter crash in Alaska.
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As more people get vaccinated, the state moves toward reopening in full.
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Why are former Anchorage residents still receiving ballots to vote in the municipal election?
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The U.S. and China meet in Anchorage, Alaska, where shared arctic interests could provide common ground.
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Repairs lag for aging upper bunks at the Anchorage Correctional Complex.
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A former chief and a longtime detective have called into question the inner workings of the Fairbanks Police Department, alleging a workplace culture of discrimination and harassment.
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The Alaska Railroad expects increased demand for summer 2021.
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Two democratic lawmakers are investigating whether Alaska's labor commissioner, who serves under the state's republican governor, Mike Dunleavy, improperly quashed workplace safety citations and fines against two seafood companies.
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It would not be the first time Chinese President Xi Jinping and top aides visited Alaska. In 2017, Jinping stopped in Anchorage for several hours to meet with Alaska Gov. Bill Walker.
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The time to vaccinate is now, ahead of spring and summer travel, according the State of Alaska's health department.
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Taken together, the materials shed new light on the sprawling patchwork of law enforcement agencies that tried to stop the siege and the lack of coordination and inadequate planning that stymied their efforts.
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Three former employees of the Sitka Police Department have settled lawsuits against city. But has the toxic workplace culture that forced them out changed?
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In nearly half of the more than 200 federal cases stemming from the attack on the Capitol, authorities have cited evidence that an insurrectionist appeared to be inspired by conspiracy theories or extremist ideologies, according to an Associated Press review of court records.