Rebecca Palsha
Senior Anchor/Investigative Reporter
Anchorage, AK
Rebecca Palsha is the senior anchor and investigative reporter at NBC and CBS affiliate Alaska’s News Source. Her main areas of focus are climate change, politics and cannabis. 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."
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Adak helped protect the country during World War II. It’s part of the Aleutian Island chain and stretches more than 1,000 miles west across the Pacific from the Alaska Peninsula.
For lots of reasons, Thom Spitler is an interesting man. Spitler is a rare breed for another reason: he's one of the few people who were born on Adak.
When we arrived in Adak, City Manager Breck Craig said the words that defined our trip: "Seven doors of doom." The Seven Doors of Doom used to contain nuclear weapons.
A lot of people visit Adak to see the crumbling military base, but it's the wildlife, land, and sea that are the real treat. The Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge is a habitat for marine mammals and some 40 million seabirds.
Most Alaskans know the story of Adak: it became a U.S. military base during World War II to fend off a feared Japanese invasion of Alaska. Because it’s close to Russia, it remained a strategic base and submarine surveillance center throughout the Cold War. Now, in about three hours on an Alaska Airlines 737 from Anchorage, there are epic experiences to be had here.
With only about 50 people living on Adak year-round, you're pretty limited in where you can eat. There are two restaurants and a little sundries shop with very, very limited hours.
Once you’ve arrived in Adak, there are only a few rental options to spend the night.
We booked our three-bedroom, six-bed duplex through The Adak/Aleutian Experience.
We sleepily make our way to the terminal where our flight to Adak is expected to be about three hours. Turns out there wasn't a real reason to rush; our flight has less than 20 people for a comfortable flight on an Alaska Airlines 737.
Alaska is getting much-needed upgrades to improve the safety of flying in Alaska, news that was hailed as a major win for a state with the highest crash and fatality flying rates in the country.
The trial for an Anchorage nurse practitioner continued Wednesday morning with the prosecution presenting copious amounts of digital records showing Kris Kile refilled or prescribed oxycodone to patients, with some being refilled before a patient should have run out of pills.
On Monday morning, an Anchorage jury heard allegations surrounding eight people who were said to have been prescribed vast amounts of opioids by a nurse practitioner.
Providence is closing its Crisis Recovery Center for adolescents in May due to a sudden loss of funding, prompting urgent warnings from lawmakers about the impact on Alaska's already strained mental health system.
Senator Lisa Murkowski is worried about cuts to military jobs, specifically ones that prevent sexual assault, suicides and behavior problems within the forces.
The trial for an Anchorage nurse practitioner begins Wednesday. Kris Kile faces charges of misconduct involving a controlled substance in the second and third degree related to oxycodone, fentanyl and meperidine.
Next week, an Anchorage nurse practitioner who formally faced manslaughter charges will appear in court, no longer charged with an Anchorage woman’s death.
In smoke shops, cannabis and vape stores and gas stations across Anchorage, consumers can buy kratom. But should you?
Sen. Lisa Murkowski spoke at a summit for Alaskan nonprofits on Monday in Anchorage, calling for greater action from Congress in resisting executive action from the Trump administration on tariffs, recent federal cuts and litigation over those actions.
It’s day three of the Anchorage Police Department search of the duplex of one of its own officers in Eagle River.
The Anchorage Police Department and the FBI are searching a home directly behind the home owned by an Eagle River man who has been missing for more than a month.
After facing pushback, East Anchorage Assembly member Karen Bronga will postpone indefinitely her ordinance making parents legally responsible if their student brings a deadly weapon to school.
There have been at least 114 inmate deaths from 2015 to 2024, according to new Department of Corrections data. DOC is required to provide prisoners "essential care."
An Eagle River man who was last seen March 6 is now considered a missing person.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski says Republican lawmakers are “afraid” President Donald Trump and his billionaire advisor Elon Musk will campaign against them.
As Alaska prepares for the eruption of Mount Spurr, the state's two senators are part of newly reintroduced legislation to add more government spending to "enable the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to continue to improve its volcano monitoring and early warning capabilities around the country."
March is Women’s History Month and Alaskans are celebrating in their own way.
DOGE claims $4 million real estate savings in Alaska. In Alaska, this week, nine buildings were targeted in Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency plan as part of cost-cutting effort by terminating building leases.
Federal buildings in Alaska were listed as being up for sale before the list disappeared. On Tuesday, the Trump administration identified more than 440 federal properties that could be sold, which included three locations in Anchorage.
A skier who was swept up in an avalanche and dragged down 1,200 feet of mountainside last week is recovering in a hospital with pelvic and back injuries.
President Donald Trump pardoned more than 1,000 people this week who were charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, some of those very same people Alaska Sens. Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski ran from.
Two men were injured Wednesday morning in a shooting that involved police officers in a Government Hill neighborhood.
Alaska reports 2,686 homeless people, which is 18% more than last year.
After a nail-biter of a last-minute deal to keep the government open, Sen. Lisa Murkowski arrived back in Alaska for Christmas and spoke with Alaska's News Source about the hot topics in the state and in D.C.
With one federal spending bill now scrapped and a revised version voted down, the U.S. faces a possible government shutdown that could begin at 8:01 p.m. AKST on Saturday when funding is set to lapse.
Prior to a change in attitude Thursday afternoon, the world's richest man and the future president were demanding that Republicans back away from a bipartisan spending deal that was meant to avoid a government shutdown over Christmas. Waiting to see what Elon Musk tweets next is Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
In a ceremony lasting less than 20 minutes the three Alaska electors cast Electoral College votes for Alaska.
Sen. Dan Sullivan and more than 55 additional Congressional members are requesting the traditional Army-Navy football game continue as the only game on the second Saturday of December.
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski met with Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, Tuesday in Washington D.C., calling it a “good exchange.”
Alaska Native students are more likely to drop out of school and have the lowest attendance rates above all subgroups except homeless students in Alaska, according to new data.
On May 12, 2024, the Anchorage Police Department and the Anchorage Fire Department responded to a home fire on the 2600 block of Easthaven Circle. In a press release written by AFD, it was announced that two bodies had been found inside. AFD says the fire was set on purpose.
As the Anchorage School district looks at closing, consolidating and adjusting boundaries here's a look at the student enrollment for the last 15 years.
As the nation prepares for a new president, many Alaska leaders seem excited about possible projects that could be explored under the Trump administration, which is expected to spur regulation changes that let companies drill more on federal land.
A south Anchorage resident is worried that an injured moose in his yard could cross paths with kids and dogs in the neighborhood.
Two dogs were extricated from the wreckage of a fatal crash that killed two people on the Kenai Peninsula this week.
Eight Anchorage children have been victims of homicide this year, more than doubling the number of children who were killed last year, according to Anchorage Police Department data obtained by Alaska’s News Source Investigates.
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy discusses the magnitude of Donald Trump's return to the Oval Office and what that means for Alaska.
Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance was in the studio on Tuesday evening discussing the response thus far to snow in Anchorage.
Across the country, and within Alaska, early voting is off to a banger start with long lines and eager voters. In Alaska early voting started yesterday and this Saturday, Oct. 26, is the deadline to request an absentee ballot.
As temperatures drop this month and snow becomes more visible on the Chugach Mountains, a new state report from the Department of Health shows that cold weather injuries are 'progressively higher' in the homeless population and it continues to increase over the years.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she hopes Democratic Congresswoman Mary Peltola is able to continue her work in Congress.
After a rollover crash left one Service High School student dead, the driver of the vehicle is being charged as an adult.
