Riley Board
Senior Reporter
Riley Board is a Report For America reporter covering rural communities on the central Kenai Peninsula for KDLL. She enjoys reporting on local government and education. Her work has appeared on Science Friday, National Native News and Alaska Public Media.
Board is a graduate of Middlebury College, where she studied linguistics, English literature and German, and was editor-in-chief of The Middlebury Campus, the student newspaper. She has interned at the Burlington Free Press in Vermont, and at Smithsonian Institution’s Folklife Magazine in Washington D.C. Board hails from Sarasota, Florida.
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The Peninsula Clarion will go from two weekly issues to one, as new owner Carpenter Media Group executes layoffs at other papers. -
The proposed mine, known as Johnson Tract, is on land owned by the Native corporation CIRI. The public can comment on two easements that would allow a mining company to access the landlocked site within Lake Clark National Park and Preserve. -
The declaration opens impacted fishers and related businesses to federal relief money. The U.S. Department of Commerce declared disasters for the 2021 and 2022 seasons earlier this spring. -
A Kenai duplex was completely destroyed in a fire early Monday morning. Nobody was injured, but the two families that lived in the building are fundraising after losing everything. -
The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District adds back staff positions among continued budget uncertainty. Plus, the district superintendent plans to sign on for another three years, and eight young people in Alaska file a lawsuit against the state for its proposed natural gas pipeline project. -
If it’s built, the Donlin Gold mine project on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta would be one of the largest open-pit gold mines in the world, powered by a gas pipeline that would stretch hundreds of miles across the state to Cook Inlet. -
If it’s built, the Donlin Gold mine project on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta would be one of the largest open-pit gold mines in the world, powered by a gas pipeline that would stretch hundreds of miles across the state to Cook Inlet. -
When Cooper Landing students learned the school year ended on a Thursday, they initiated a letter-writing campaign, asking their principal and the district for an extra day of school at the end of the year. -
River Aspelund was arrested in 2022 in connection with his mother's murder. The court found Aspelund unfit to stand trial, and the state requested he be given antipsychotic medication involuntarily. Today, the appeals court affirmed that decision. -
Meek was hired by the department in summer 2022. City Manager Janette Bower said Tuesday she had accepted the chief's resignation, and wished him the best in his next position.
