Rebecca Palsha
Assistant News Director
Anchorage, AK
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Rebecca Palsha was a senior reporter and anchor at KTUU until being promoted to assistant news director in 2019. Her main areas of focus are climate change, politics and food. She has won numerous local and national awards including an Edward R. Murrow award for excellence in writing. Additionally she was also part of the team that won the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, award for the documentary, "Climate Changed."
(Photo Credit: Freeze Frame Photography)
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After two years of pandemic buying online and a strain on global supply chains, customers and shop owners are finding their goods being delivered months after being ordered. In Alaska it means fewer Christmas toys and shortages of parts for things like helmets.
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An Alaska lawmaker has ties to an extremist group that was reportedly a large part of the violent Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
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A little more than a week after Anchorage's first chief equity officer was fired and replaced by the Bronson administration, Clifford Armstrong III updated his LinkedIn profile with an article he wrote about the reasons he believes he was let go.
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More Alaskans are turning to cremation over traditional burials, and COVID-19 has shown a need for funeral homes to change the way their business is run.
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Desiree Edgington is enraged. Her brother Mike died Oct. 2nd at home, in his bed, alone. She blames COVID-19 and is waiting for the final autopsy report from the state for proof.
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The longest serving Anchorage Assembly member, Dick Traini, has watched the debate about a proposed mask ordinance unfold over the past few days. He called the public's behavior at recent hearings "embarrassing."
Anchorage’s first ever chief equity officer was fired by the Bronson administration late last week and his replacement was announced Monday morning.
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According to the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, 83 people in the Mat-Su have died with COVID-19.
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Mat-Su Regional Medical Center has increased its ICU capacity to treat additional COVID-19 patients. The hospital says that out of 94 patients being treated there, 41 have COIVD-19 and 85% of those patients are not vaccinated.
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Providence Alaska Medical Center supports a mask mandate in Anchorage. This week of the CEO of the hospital sent a letter to the Anchorage Assembly outlining the growing concerns the hospital is having as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to drag on.
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In 2001, Alaska's News Source interviewed six children about how they experienced the 9/11 attacks. On Friday, reporters caught up with one of those children 20 years later to hear her perspective on the cusp of that day's anniversary.
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Mayor Dave Bronson continues to butt heads with members of the Anchorage Assembly over COVID-19 and municipal appointee confirmations.
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As school begins this week, many Anchorage parents are still scrambling to find afternoon child care. Camp Fire Alaska is offering significantly fewer spots for before and after school child care.
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The popular Girdwood hand tram will most likely remain closed and replaced by a bridge.
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In Katmai National Park and Preserve, more than 250 miles from Anchorage on a peninsula in southern Alaska most people stop whatever they're doing to watch brown bears.
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Senator Lisa Murkowski, who is up for reelection in 2022, has long had an independent streak.
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Nome, which is also a thriving tourism town, relies heavily on Iditarod visitors and a summer cruise ship season. It's also a vital hub for Northwest Alaska. After a year of pandemic restrictions locals say they're optimistic life is returning to normal.
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The Kenai Peninsula Borough is hoping travelers will get the urge to visit Alaska's playground this summer, which is famous for high-quality fishing, hiking and recreation as pandemic restrictions are lifted.
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In what may be the only televised talk between the two candidates to be Anchorage's next mayor, both Forrest Dunbar and Dave Bronson showed how vastly different they would run the city.
The Anchorage Assembly is holding a special meeting Tuesday to certify the results of the municipal election, where Dave Bronson earned roughly 34% of the vote and Forrest Dunbar earned around 32%.
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This week more than 80% of the students at Wasilla High School voted on a new design to depict the school mascot, the Wasilla Warrior.
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In Alaska, as of April 12, 11,178 Johnson & Johnson doses have been administered out of 35,500 total doses allocated in the state.
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The build up to the first face-to-face meetings between U.S. and Chinese officials under the Biden administration began several days ago in Washington DC with Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying he was going to lay out 'in very frank terms,' the concerns the U.S has with China.
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This time around there are 15 candidates who want to be the mayor of Anchorage. If no one locks in more than 45% of the vote, the two candidates who receive the most votes will be placed on the runoff ballot.
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Alaska is leading the nation in COVID-19 vaccinations.
This election cycle is huge with, crowded with candidates that will all face huge tasks. The next mayor faces an ongoing economic crisis, reopening schools, the coronavirus pandemic, vocal critics of the citywide coronavirus shutdown and a shrinking population.
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Stevens’ last day wasn’t announced yet but the governor’s office says it will be made known soon.
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In a school year when learning has become unpredictable, with kids zooming back and forth during remote classes, summer is likely to take on a different role this year— one of intense recovery.The Anchorage School District is in the process of creating a robust summer school program.
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Homeless and the issues that surround it, including affordable housing were the focus of a mayoral discussion Tuesday night.
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When the statewide emergency COVID-19 declaration ended Sunday, it put food assistance benefits for thousands of Alaskans in jeopardy.
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The pandemic has increased concerns about children's weight gain that is exacerbated by no in-person school, not to mention the cancellation of sports and other activities.
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The news broke late Friday afternoon through a press release from the Iditarod.
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Southeast relies heavily on tourism. It's a place where most people either work in the visitor industry, or know someone who does. Skagway, Ketchikan and others brim with tourists who, cameras in hand, flood the streets looking for souvenirs and cultural experiences in some of the most lush rain forests in the country. The majority of them arrive on large cruise ships that appear dockside like floating towns.
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Alaska, and Anchorage, have been in an ongoing recession that, at first, appeared like it might improve in 2020. Then coronavirus arrived and destroyed any hopes of a quick recovery.
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On an overcast day in Anchorage, thousands of miles away, Alaskans watched history unfold in Washington DC.
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As coronavirus cases surged in Alaska and across the country, Anchorage officials say they were forced to place limits on businesses and everyday life in order to avoid overwhelming hospitals. That decision has been met with both intense criticism and praise. It has also lead to busy Anchorage Assembly meetings with intense crowds.
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To end the year with cheer Rebecca Palsha and her daughters made cookies for Animal Care and Control.
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During Seeking Justice, a special report on missing and murdered Indigenous peoples in the state, Alaska's News Source hosted a panel discussion with experts to take up some of the challenges in addressing the critical issue.
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Brandon Irlmeier died the year Anchorage recorded its highest number of homicides at 35. Brandon is among the disproportionate number of Alaska Natives who die violently each year in Alaska.
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Providence Alaska Medical Center says it has acquired a refrigerated trailer to be used as a temporary morgue, if necessary.
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‘The obvious starting point is muting microphones’: Seawolf debate coach says of presidential debate
For some insight on what went wrong and how things got out of control so quickly Alaska’s News Source spoke with the University of Alaska Anchorage Seawolf Debate Director Steve Johnson.
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Diaries from the coronavirus era will help preserve the changing situation. And, journaling is the answer.
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Two people on the MEHS campus tested positive for COVID-19 and are currently in isolation.
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Former Gov. Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, offered some advice to Sen. Kamala Harris as she begins her own campaign attempting to be the first woman vice president in the United States.
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Like many places in Alaska when the pandemic hit the center was forced to close temporarily, but the animals, more than 4,000, still had to be cared for and the expenses to run the building, including keeping the seawater pumps turned on continued.