Robyne
FM News ReporterRobyne began her career in public media news at KUAC, coiling cables in the TV studio and loading reel-to-reel tape machines for the radio station.
She came to Alaska from California “for just a year” and never left. Since then, she has worked as a public radio reporter in Fairbanks, Homer and Barrow (now Utqiagvik,) and as a TV newscaster in Fairbanks. She also worked in social services for Big Brothers Big Sisters and Fairbanks Native Association, and taught journalism as a professor at UAF. She is married and has two grown children.
She explains the quirk of having only one name, “just Robyne, only six letters,” to DMV clerks, airline and TSA agents, pharmacists and insurance agents. She changed to only one name as a teenager, and has legally gone by Robyne for decades. “Overall, having only one name is usually fun, and an ice-breaker. But it’s unconventional for the news business, which you know, is pretty rigid. I want KUAC listeners to have the best journalism possible, no matter who is delivering it.”
Robyne loves how Alaska listeners support their radio stations, “and they keep us on our toes,” she says. “They demand quality and excellence, so we had better deliver that.”
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Alaska's Congressional Delegation supports leavinG the USPostal Service as a government service - not privatizing it.FNSB mayor Grier Hopkins releases his plan for next year's budget.The AK appeals court decides to uphold the parole denial for a North Pole man convicted of murder nearly 40 years ago.The pilot of a plane crashed last week and saved in a dramatic rescue might not have been legal to fly.An executive order adjusting rules around voting could hurt voters in rural Alaska Native communities. -
3.2 Earthquake felt in Interior.Downtown Fairbanks fight send two stabbing victims to hospital.Executive Order on Elections may not take in Alaska.Native shareholders question their corporation's migrant detention contracts.Fairbanks area schools will be redistricting this summer.REAL ID deadline is May 7.Sudden CDC cuts will affect health delivery in rural Alaska. -
EducationThe budget for Fairbanks-area schools is now passed to the Borough Assembly after an arduous week of budget-cutting in hours-long meetings. School board members have been anticipating huge cuts since last fall, when they started to work on a $16 million deficit. -
A 16-year-old snowmachiner died Saturday after he was caught in an avalanche in Turnagain Pass, in SouthCentral Alaska.Two injured climbers were rescued Sunday from a site high up on the slope of a mountain in the eastern Alaska Range west of Black Rapids. Three people were rescued Monday morning after their small plane went through the ice near the east side of Tustumena Lake, on the Kenai Peninsula.The plan to clean up polluting particulates in the air in Interior Alaska gets another comment period.People living in the northern part of the state will have a chance to watch rockets soar through aurora-lit night skies for the next couple weeks.
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A report written by lead authors in Fairbanks that highlighted the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous people was removed from several federal websites last month. The University of Alaska system is adjusting to scrubbing DEI language from websites and materials, leaving faculty and students wondering if they can still teach and study.The attorney who represented the four Fairbanks police officers in a lawsuit against them and the City related to the Fairbanks 4 case is allowed to back out. -
Renowned historian H.W. Brands will be talking in Fairbanks Friday about how today’s tumultuous change in the federal government is colored by history. The lecture is at 5:00 p.m. at the BP Design Theater, in the Engineering Building, and available online. -
Fairbanks constituents for Senator Dan Sullivan organized a town hall to hear from him during the Congressional spring break this week. But the hastily-arranged event didn’t jibe with the Senator’s schedule and he wasn’t able to appear. The organizers decided to hold the event anyway. -
Two people are able to walk away from a plane crash Sunday afternoon.Soot lands on local schools after UAF’s coal-fired heat and power plant leaks ash.A bill in the legislature would help teens get mental health counseling.For much of Alaska, fire season is already here.Molly of Denali wins an Emmy.An unusual Iditarod finishes. -
Fairbanks Orthopedist cleared of accusations of scheduling too many surgeries and false records, weighed against him by competitors.A Fort Wainwright soldier arrested for child abuse pornography.Alaska bear-killing program ruled unconstitutional.Climate lawsuit to stop natural gas pipeline thrown out.St. Lawrence Island leaders ask UN to investigate toxins from old military sites.NOAA workers in limbo and Alaska's big fishing industry could be at risk. -
Stories in this newscast, FNSB ordinance would make Juneteenth a paid holiday for employees. Fairbanks man arrested for attacking snow loader that drove over his driveway reflectors. Legislators look at changing accounts for the Permanent Fund Dividend. An Iditarod sled dog team from Fairbanks is mostly rescue puppies. Skagway Assembly and mayor disagree on letters worried about tariffs.
