Joey Klecka
Digital Reporter/Producer
Joey is a longtime Alaskan with childhood roots in Eagle River. Having grown up exploring the vast wilderness of Alaska, he has a strong grasp of what makes the state unique.
Joey graduated with a bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and spent eight years covering the sports scene on the Kenai Peninsula.
At Alaska's News Source, Joey worked as producer of the Morning Edition, before taking up a role as digital reporter.
Fred Hamilton Sr. died Monday at the age of 102, the oldest known living Haida member in Alaska.
Three more names joined the iconic list of Alaskan athletes in the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame Wednesday, as did a special "moment" in Alaska history.
A large fire put billowing black smoke into the sky over Anchorage Thursday morning as fire crews rushed to put out a camper trailer, according to officials.
A large fire that flared up with “20-foot high flames,” according to one official, left a Spenard neighborhood park burned Sunday afternoon.
The Hawaiian voyaging canoe that set sail this summer from Alaska on a years-long circumnavigational journey around the Pacific is cutting its trip short — for now.
Former Iditarod musher Paul Gebhardt died Saturday morning after a lengthy illness, according to Iditarod officials. He was 67.
Alaska Airlines announced Sunday that will be acquiring Hawaiian Airlines in a merger agreement, according to company officials.
Mayor Dave Bronson laid down multiple vetoes on the municipal budget Tuesday, a week after the city’s general operating budget was approved by the Anchorage Assembly.
A man was found dead in a Spenard neighborhood home early Saturday morning, according to Anchorage police. JBER officials identified him as a private in the U.S. Army.
The Alaska State Troopers announced on Thanksgiving morning active search and rescue operations have been suspended after a large landslide struck the tiny Alaska town of Wrangell.
The Anchorage Police Department is investigating an apparent homicide-suicide shooting in the Walmart parking lot near Dimond Boulevard.
Representatives of the Anchorage School District and the union representing teachers came to a tentative, one-year contract agreement, according to officials on Friday.
The Veterans Day ceremony that was scheduled for Saturday on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson has been cancelled due to the aftermath of the winter storm, authorities said.
A heat source inside a tent led to an outdoor fire in a Campbell Park neighborhood that killed one person, officials with the Anchorage Fire Department say.
Here are the preliminary results provided by the borough as of Wednesday morning.
A man was taken into police custody and charged with terroristic threatening following online social media posts that threatened gun violence against a Downtown Anchorage social establishment.
Seven ports and harbors statewide will be receiving a combined $72 million in federal grant funding which will be used to repair and improve infrastructure associated with maritime activity in the state.
A class action lawsuit centered around Alaskans who have been jailed longer than what is constitutionally legal was filed earlier this month against the Department of Corrections.
A wide disconnect has been revealed between educators and those in charge of Mat-Su area schools, with a vote of “no confidence” taken by over a thousand staff members.
The latest report to come from the state labor department largely shows jobs were added over a one-year span and unemployment dropped as well, continuing an upward trend from the COVID-19 pandemic employment crash.
Alaska’s top industrial agency filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Department of Interior for what they called “illegally” canceled oil and gas leases on protected land in the state’s northern reaches.
A bridge carrying Glenn Highway traffic over a road at the South Peters Creek exit was hit Monday by an excavator being carried on a trailer, necessitating repairs.
Two men were found dead following a collision between a skiff and a barge that was being towed on the Kuskokwim River on Wednesday.
A student was questioned by Anchorage police Thursday morning after discharging a toy gun in a classroom at West High School that was later revealed by authorities to be a paintball gun.
No one was hurt after a commercial garage associated with a former Northeast Anchorage bakery burned Wednesday morning.
A man was convicted last week by a jury in a murder trial reaching back to a 2019 shooting in Wasilla.
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake shook Anchorage residents out of bed early Friday morning.
A tentative agreement for the next three years was reached Friday between the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District and the union representing staff and other education employees.
Fat Bear Week returned Wednesday as a fun way for Alaskans and anyone else around the world to vote on which bear in Katmai National Park they think is the burliest.
A preliminary report on the plane crash that killed Eugene “Buzzy” Peltola Jr. — the husband of Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola — earlier this month did not offer a conclusion as to why the plane went down but revealed that the craft was carrying over 500 pounds of moose meat when it crashed.
A final report on the March 2021 heli-skiing crash that killed five people and severely injured another placed blame largely on the “inadequate” pilot training program by the heli-ski company, as well as insufficient oversight checks by the Federal Aviation Administration.
An Alaskan man who allegedly sent threatening emails and posted messages online depicting harm against a Florida sheriff who denounced anti-Semitism and pro-Nazi messaging was indicted on federal cyberstalking charges.
The municipal IT director resigned Tuesday from his role, according to the mayor’s office, amid allegations he was implicated in a plan to possibly overturn some results of the April city election.
A bank robbery Tuesday at an Oceanview neighborhood bank has led the Federal Bureau of Investigation to initiate a search for the man responsible.
An Alaska communications company that had its underwater fiber optic line severed by sea ice this summer has completed repair operations and restored service.
Multiple school districts across the state reported threats made to their schools Tuesday and have closed campuses, sending hundreds of students home.
A 26-year-old Wasilla resident was killed early Saturday morning when the car he was riding in collided head-on with a truck.
A backlog in processing applications for state benefits that stretches back almost a year has finally been cleared up through this summer, according to health department officials.
The driver and passenger of a Toyota sedan were killed while slowing in a school zone Thursday afternoon near Kasilof.
The husband of Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola, Eugene Peltola Jr., was killed in a plane crash in Alaska, according to Peltola campaign officials.
The Anchorage Assembly voted to authorize subpoena powers to produce evidence and testimony regarding an complaint of alleged impropriety filed by a former city official in the city election.
A new complaint filed in U.S. District Court is challenging the federal government’s decision earlier this year to protect millions of acres of old-growth forest in Southeast Alaska from industrial activities.
A teenager who went missing over the weekend was found dead in a small pond in Interior Alaska, leading Alaska authorities to investigate the circumstances.
A soldier stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson died Saturday after falling on a hike south of Anchorage.
Eighteen passengers aboard a stranded tour boat in Southcentral Alaska were safely rescued and taken to Valdez after the vessel became grounded on bare ground.
A man was arrested Wednesday in connection to two Anchorage bank robberies at the same location this summer, according to an official with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Anchorage police have charged a woman who took responsibility for dumping human feces at an entranceway at the Alaska’s News Source station building last week.
Police have arrested and charged a man with murder in connection to a deadly stabbing that occurred in a Russian Jack neighborhood residence in May.
A student at Bettye Davis East Anchorage High School was detained and charged Tuesday for bringing a handgun to school.
A 47-year-old Delta Junction man was found dead in the roadway late Tuesday night, leaving authorities in a search to find the motorist responsible.
