Makayla Clark
Producer/Multimedia Journalist
Clark
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Makayla has been working in broadcast news while attending college and since graduation. She recently graduated with a degree in journalism in Arizona, but she was born and raised in Anchorage and is happy to be back in her hometown telling the community's stories. Makayla has always loved writing, but didn't expect to have a career in broadcast journalism. Through various opportunities to learn the craft, Makayla fell in love with it and wouldn't have it any other way.
Makayla has enjoyed covering crime and courts stories, but also has a love for geology. Some of her favorite stories have been about the Grand Canyon, as well as a tsunami threat. She loves the adventure of visiting a new place to tell a story, but also enjoys a day in producing newscasts.
(Photo Credit: Freeze Frame Photography)
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The regular legislative session has ended with some big proposals still left on the table. One of them, SB 133, would have set up special funds to deal with the growing opioid crisis in the state.
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The grids in use now are located in Kotzebue, Shungnak, Deering and Buckland, and a fifth is coming this summer to Noatak.
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The document, titled The Alaska Standard, looks at the state’s history of what the governor’s office calls “responsible resource development.”
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During a panel, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Dave Turk was asked about what clean energy success stories the state has already seen.
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Winona Fletcher was barely 15 years old when she pulled the trigger in an armed robbery turned triple murder in 1985.
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The world’s largest tsunami leveled the forest on the edge of Southeast Alaska’s Lituya Bay in 1958 when an earthquake triggered a landslide that fell into the water.
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Two large landslides in Alaska have let loose in the last week, and although neither impacted residents, they are of great interest to geologists.
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According to the Interagency Information Statement, data shows a portion of the slide is moving at a rate of about 1.6 to 2.7 inches a day. While movement in this part of the slide is historically common, a larger area is moving at least two times quicker than “the last period of similar patterns of motion in 2020.”
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The 1,720-foot wave hit the tall banks of Lituya Bay in Southeast Alaska in 1958. Two people who were in the bay died and four survived.
Alaska is hit with many earthquakes a day, weather they are felt or not. Alaskans have no warning that a big shake is coming, but in this installment of The Fault in the Facts, a seismologist answers the question, “Can scientists predict earthquakes?”
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Three Anchorage Assembly members have announced a new plan to address what they call a humanitarian crisis in Anchorage.
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The largest earthquakes in the world in 2020 and 2021 were in Alaska. New research looks into whether they are connected and part of an 80-year sequence of quakes.
The magnitude 9.2 Great Alaska earthquake that struck Prince William Sound on March 27, 1964, is known as the largest to hit Alaska and the second-largest ever recorded in the world.
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Harlen and Stephanie Trosvig welcomed the quadruplets on April 27 at 32-weeks gestation.
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The program provides schools with seismographs to measure earthquakes. It is called a Raspberry Shake.
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An Anchorage woman is competing in the Mrs. Alaska America pageant in Mid-May, and she is using her platform to spread awareness for her invisible, underdiagnosed illness.
In continuation of the last installment of The Fault in the Facts, we will strike down any faults in the facts and explain whether tsunamis look like how they are depicted on TV.
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Seismic activity near Edgecumbe Volcano is nearly back to background levels, according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory, but scientists have now completed an in-depth analysis that shows new information for the island near Sitka.
For about a week, a series of hundreds of earthquakes have been occurring near Mount Edgecumbe, the dormant volcano located across Sitka Sound from the city of Sitka along the Southeast Alaska panhandle.
In this installment of the Fault in the Facts, Alaska’s News Source will share whether what happened in Tonga could happen in Alaska.
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A Kodiak couple is adding to a very short chapter in Alaskan history with their pregnancy.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy proclaimed the week of March 20-26 would be used to prepare Alaskans for the tsunamis, according to the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.
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Alaska’s COVID-19 case counts have been decreasing since mid-January, with officials calls the numbers 'hopeful.'
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For the second year in a row, Alaska has taken the title for having the year’s largest earthquake in the world.
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A team of Alaskan scientists have been given the green light to research the area that was at one point the Bering Land Bridge.
There are many misconceptions of what to do when an earthquake strikes. But which ones are the fault in the facts? And which one is actually a fact?
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As mid-February approaches, data from the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services shows the state’s COVID-19 cases are trending down after January’s case count hit record high numbers with more than 62,000 cases reported throughout the month.
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Sam Young with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Economic Market Analysis Division said it can be good for a homeowner because it boosts equity. However, higher prices can be bad for a buyer.
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It can take a lot of time to prepare for disasters, but the Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management said putting in some time each month can help ease the workload and help you be ready in a year.
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Alaska’s Polynesian-American community is starting to hear from loved ones in Tonga more than a week after mother nature left a disastrous mark on the island, and locals with ties to the area are pleading for help.
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Nearly five years after Brandy Sullivan was killed, her case is just days from the set trial date.
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State Epidemiologist Dr. Joe McLaughlin said omicron seems to now be the dominant variant in the state, and it’s driving a sharp acceleration in cases.
“It could still do a significant amount of damage for all the businesses and the people that use and recreate along the coastline near Whittier,” said Dave Snider with the Tsunami Warning Center.
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“I was met with a lot of hope and a little bit of purpose in knowing that this amazing gift of life, really, was going to provide an opportunity for someone else to live."
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November saw about 12,500 cases reported, which is about half the cases compared to each September and October.
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October takes the spot for Alaska’s second-highest monthly case count. The state health department reported nearly 25,000 new cases, according to daily case count summary emails.
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Coordinators recently unveiled bronze paws and huskies sidewalk inlays. They are some of the first tangible pieces of the project that people can now see.
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Anorthosite is found is many northern countries and even on the moon, but in Alaska, it’s rare.
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Wildlife Biologists Briana Bode and Katie Stoner had never experienced an earthquake like the magnitude 8.2 quake that struck in July. They were about 65 miles from the epicenter of the largest earthquake in the United States in more than 50 years.
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Two recent cases of “Alaskapox,” a virus found exclusively in the state, were identified in the Fairbanks area this summer, but health experts say it’s no reason to worry.
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During the pandemic, it seems like the flu was put on the back burner as COVID-19 took center stage. However, the flu was still circulating.
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The program is in such an early stage that Suzanna Caldwell, the Solid Waste Services recycling coordinator, said they haven’t determined if it will happen.
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Charlie Detelich is a part of the team working on the Europa Clipper mission sending a spacecraft to observe Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons.
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Approximately 13,859 cases of COVID-19 were reported in Alaska in the month August, according to case count summaries from the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services.
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Lisa Aquino, the Catholic Social Services CEO, said it’s estimated that 100,000 Alaskans are food insecure, and about a third of those are children.
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There are three adjustments that took place Monday to further break down the level of COVID-19 transmission in each area of the state.
With the initial threat and the updated information, some people are living life as normal in Whittier, while others are preparing and still others are concerned.
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Anchorage’s alert level has risen to the high alert status again, for the first time since mid-May.
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A total of 58 cases of the highly transmissible delta variant of COVID-19 have been detected in Alaska.
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Preliminary studies showed the landslide could cause a 30-foot tsunami to hit Whittier, but a new USGS study shows worst-case scenario waves may only reach 7 feet high.
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