Joey Klecka
Digital Content Manager
Joey is a longtime Alaskan with childhood roots in Eagle River. Having grown up exploring the vast wilderness of Alaska, he has a strong grasp of what makes the state unique.
Joey graduated with a bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and spent eight years covering the sports scene on the Kenai Peninsula as a reporter for the Peninsula Clarion.
At Alaska's News Source, Joey worked as producer of the Morning Edition before taking up a role as digital reporter and ultimately the position of Digital Content Manager at the station.
Pride Month in the 49th state began Sunday and will be celebrated throughout the month by many Alaskans.
A female pedestrian was killed in a collision with a vehicle that briefly closed down lanes of Benson Boulevard at the C Street intersection late Monday morning.
The inclusion of Anchorage on a list of “sanctuary” jurisdictions — defined by the Trump administration as cities obstructing federal immigration enforcement — is a “mistake,” according to Anchorage’s mayor.
A state trooper who called out to help a man stuck in the chilly waters of the Tanana River this week took matters into his own hands when the situation called for it.
Mayor Suzanne LaFrance announced Thursday that a large homeless encampment will be cleared with an abatement process in mid-June.
Nine days after making an emergency landing in St. Paul due to engine issues, two American F-16 fighter jets based in South Korea have returned to the skies.
Nearly 10 months after a family of four from Texas went missing in the waters of Kachemak Bay, a search has turned up human remains in the boat on the bottom of the bay.
The driver of a truck was killed after it crashed into the Anchor River near Homer early Tuesday morning, state troopers say.
Two Alaska middle-schoolers saw their run come to an end at the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Two students from Alaska are flashing their spelling talents on the national level.
The body of a Wasilla man who broke through the Susitna River ice in March was found and positively identified Friday by the state.
A measles case was reported in a minor in south Anchorage last week, according to the Alaska Department of Health.
Two American F-16 fighter jets were forced to make an emergency landing in the remote community of St. Paul, located in the Bering Sea, after one of them suffered an “engine malfunction” on Monday, according to U.S. Air Force officials.
The first king salmon of the summer fishing season was reeled in Monday morning at Ship Creek.
A moose trampled a woman and dog Friday evening at Kincaid Park, authorities say, leaving both with survivable injuries.
Seven officers with the Fairbanks Police Department and Alaska State Troopers fired shots in a deadly shootout Monday night that left a Fairbanks man dead.
A video captured at Providence Hospital in Anchorage shows a mama moose giving birth to a calf on the grass outside the hospital on Thursday.
A preliminary report released Wednesday on the deadly plane crash in Nanwalek last month confirmed that a loose dog likely contributed to the crash of the Cessna 207 that was carrying three people.
The driver of a car that was pulled over by Anchorage police late Monday night is dead in an officer-involved shooting.
Dan Seavey, the patriarch of the most successful racing family in the history of the Iditarod, died at the age of 87.
State officials confirmed Monday that a body found last month belonged to a 21-year-old Fairbanks man who went missing late last year.
A 22-year-old soldier from Anchorage died last week during a training exercise, Army officials in South Carolina said Friday.
The state cleared an Anchorage police officer of any wrongdoing in a shooting that left a 33-year-old man dead on Tudor Road earlier this year. APD released body-worn camera footage of the shooting Friday evening.
Anchorage police are investigating the circumstances surrounding three bodies found in a University Area residence Wednesday evening.
A fireball streaked across the sky over Southcentral Alaska Thursday morning, according to multiple reports.
Officials believe alcohol and high speeds are to blame in a crash that left two teens dead early Wednesday morning near Gulkana.
Reconstruction of two bridges that provide a crucial transportation link for commuters between Anchorage and the Mat-Su began Wednesday morning.
The federal government revoked the visas of four people affiliated with the University of Alaska Anchorage, according to UA President Pat Pitney.
A woman died after being hospitalized in a shooting near Davis Park in Anchorage’s Mountain View neighborhood Thursday morning.
A new photo shows a possible suspect in the case of the death of Anchorage’s most popular reindeer.
A water main break left a section of West Fireweed Lane closed Monday morning with an expected fix lasting hours.
The superintendent of Alaska’s largest school district stressed the importance of an education bill in Juneau that he says will prevent larger class sizes and cuts to teaching positions and special education programs.
A German shepherd-husky mixed dog has been on the run near Juneau for nearly two months, and animal rescue officials are taking their time attempting to capture her.
The city of Anchorage has met the mark on many of its top challenges over the past decade, current Assembly Chair Christopher Constant said at the weekly Make It Monday forum.
Stocks on Wall Street took a nosedive Thursday, less than 24 hours after President Donald Trump announced widespread tariffs on a majority of goods imported into the United States.
A Wasilla man accused of sexually abusing two children in 2022 pled guilty on Wednesday in a Palmer courtroom.
A longtime Carrs-Safeway store will be closing next month, according to company officials.
Unofficial election results began pouring in Tuesday night for the Anchorage municipal election.
The deadline to file for Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend is Monday night.
No one was hurt in a fire Friday morning that burned a popular Fairbanks eatery.
In the aftermath of the revelation that potentially sensitive war plans were mistakenly texted to a journalist, Alaska’s two senators are calling for the nation’s top defense officials to be more careful in how they communicate.
The city’s election administrator resigned one day after the municipal election officially got underway.
A student at West Anchorage High School was escorted off campus by police after an unknown weapon was found in his backpack Tuesday morning.
No injuries were reported Thursday after a landslide buried a road in Ketchikan, resulting in businesses and homes cut off from the center of town.
Anchorage police are holding off on releasing body-worn camera footage of a police shooting last month that left a man dead on a busy Anchorage street.
The expected eruption of a volcano just 75 miles west of Alaska’s largest city has prompted municipal officials to upgrade their activation status to level two Thursday.
When Nenana’s Jessie Holmes crossed under the brand-new burled arch in Nome early Friday morning, he won in the race's slowest time in 32 years.
A snowmachine rider is alive after falling nearly 60 feet deep into a glacial crevasse, necessitating a rescue by a group of good Samaritan riders last weekend.
