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)
Awards
Updated: Feb. 24, 2021 at 12:12 PM AKST
|By Gilbert Cordova and Rebecca Palsha
Stevens’ last day wasn’t announced yet but the governor’s office says it will be made known soon.
Updated: Feb. 18, 2021 at 4:38 PM AKST
|By Rebecca Palsha
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.
Updated: Feb. 17, 2021 at 4:07 PM AKST
|By Rebecca Palsha
Homeless and the issues that surround it, including affordable housing were the focus of a mayoral discussion Tuesday night.
Updated: Feb. 16, 2021 at 4:37 PM AKST
|By Rebecca Palsha
When the statewide emergency COVID-19 declaration ended Sunday, it put food assistance benefits for thousands of Alaskans in jeopardy.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2021 at 2:57 PM AKST
|By Rebecca Palsha
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.
Updated: Feb. 5, 2021 at 4:32 PM AKST
|By Rebecca Palsha
The news broke late Friday afternoon through a press release from the Iditarod.
Updated: Feb. 4, 2021 at 5:44 PM AKST
|By Rebecca Palsha
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.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2021 at 12:00 PM AKST
|By Rebecca Palsha
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.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2021 at 3:21 PM AKST
|By Rebecca Palsha
On an overcast day in Anchorage, thousands of miles away, Alaskans watched history unfold in Washington DC.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2021 at 4:35 PM AKST
|By Rebecca Palsha
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.
Updated: Dec. 16, 2020 at 5:55 PM AKST
|By Rebecca Palsha
To end the year with cheer Rebecca Palsha and her daughters made cookies for Animal Care and Control.
Updated: Dec. 13, 2020 at 8:42 PM AKST
|By Rebecca Palsha
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.
Updated: Dec. 11, 2020 at 5:12 PM AKST
|By Rebecca Palsha
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.
Updated: Nov. 13, 2020 at 2:32 PM AKST
|By Rebecca Palsha
Providence Alaska Medical Center says it has acquired a refrigerated trailer to be used as a temporary morgue, if necessary.
‘The obvious starting point is muting microphones’: Seawolf debate coach says of presidential debate
Updated: Sep. 30, 2020 at 5:03 PM AKDT
|By Rebecca Palsha
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.
Updated: Aug. 28, 2020 at 9:39 AM AKDT
|By Rebecca Palsha
Diaries from the coronavirus era will help preserve the changing situation. And, journaling is the answer.
Updated: Aug. 21, 2020 at 5:29 PM AKDT
|By Rebecca Palsha and Cheyenne Mathews
Two people on the MEHS campus tested positive for COVID-19 and are currently in isolation.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 11:13 AM AKDT
|By Rebecca Palsha
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.
Updated: Jul. 16, 2020 at 2:26 PM AKDT
|By Rebecca Palsha
Enjoy fresh salmon in a remote cabin.
Updated: Jul. 15, 2020 at 1:42 PM AKDT
|By Rebecca Palsha
Byers Lake Cabin 2.
Updated: Jul. 15, 2020 at 12:43 PM AKDT
|By Rebecca Palsha
A family road trip for 2020.
Updated: Jul. 13, 2020 at 8:33 AM AKDT
|By Rebecca Palsha
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.