Desiree Hagen
Reporter & HostOriginally from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia, Desiree has called Alaska ‘home’ for almost two decades. Her involvement in radio began over 10 years, first as a volunteer DJ at KBBI, later as a host and producer, and now in her current role as a reporter. Her passions include stories relating to agriculture, food systems and rural issues. In her spare time, she can often be found riding her bicycle, creating art from handmade paper, or working in the garden.
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“We see girls in combat sports and in wrestling really having this confidence that comes from knowing, owning their space in their body,” Tela O'Donnell Bacher said. Bacher will be presenting her a TED Talk at Grace Ridge Brewery at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 29.
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Three people were killed and three more were injured in separate Kenai peninsula crashes last week; clamming will be closed for a ninth year on Clam Gulch and Ninilchik beaches; scientists in Alaska will bounce a radio signal off an asteroid this week.
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The state says a backlog of Alaskans are waiting for food stamps; environmental groups are suing the federal government over the federal lease sale in Cook Inlet.
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When Homer-based artist Brianna Allen became pregnant with her second child, she started to notice something: a lack of stories, told by mothers, that honestly addressed motherhood. So, she decided to do something about it and created the MOMologues Collective.
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An appeal to deny an Anchor Point gravel pit permit is upheld; KPB assembly considers getting rid of election packets; NOAA's Arctic Report Card finds human-caused climate change is rapidly transforming the Arctic and indigenous lifeways.
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An application for a Homer charter school has been delayed by a year; after 15 years of working as Soldotna's city manager, Stephanie Queen steps down.
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Nikiski Republican Jesse Bjorkman has joined a bipartisan coalition of senators in the Alaska State Senate; Terry Eubank is on his way to becoming Kenai’s next city manager; how to identify online scammers.
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A fifth Aleutian volcano is now on elevated alert; three elementary students in Dillingham pushed to change a creek’s name that bore a racial slur.
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‘A Battle over Books’: Petitioners push to remove LGBTQ titles from Homer Library children’s sectionA contentious battle over books is playing out in Homer. Homer’s Library Advisory Board is deciding what to do with more than 50 children’s books with LGBTQ themes.
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HEA is looking into two Cook Inlet-based energy projects; for the first time, three openly LGBTQ state lawmakers are heading to the legislature.