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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Jeff Deeter is the winner of the 2025 Alaska Yukon Quest 550-mile race, and four more mushers have finished the race in Tok.He crossed the finish line at 2:49 p.m. yesterday. It took him five days, three hours and 49 minutes to complete the trail. -
It looks like the Yukon Quest may be won as early as Thursday afternoon, as Jeff Deeter is keeping up an average 7-mile-per-hour pace. -
For 25 years, volunteers in Fairbanks have organized the Farthest North Jewish Film Festival. This year, they’ve selected six movies to show in February, with food and a music performance adding to the events. Details of the movies are on a festival website. The festival continues in Fairbanks tonight with a new animated feature. -
There is something like 312 dogs in the different divisions of the Yukon Quest this year; some of them think they are the boss. And Eagle teenagers train to be checkpoint volunteers. -
All of the teams running the 550 miles to Tok are now out on the Yukon River ice. Another 200-miler scratched early yesterday, and the last finisher in that division came in. -
There is a winner in the Yukon Quest Alaska 200-mile race, and one of the mushers in that division has scratched – the rest will likely finish today in Central. Everyone in the race is over the dreaded Rosebud and Eagle Summits, and the first mushers in the 550-mile event hit the ice of the Yukon River today. -
27 Yukon Quest teams left Fairbanks yesterday. The leaders have made their way into the third checkpoint of the 550-mile race, but their handlers are stalled on the Steese Highway as an avalanche closed the road Saturday. -
The Yukon Quest Alaska starts Saturday in Fairbanks with three sled-dog races – the 80-mile Fun Run, the 200-mile middle-distance event and the big 550-mile course to Tok. Race officials held a “Meet the Mushers” get-together Thursday night, and each racer’s name was drawn to determine the starting order for their event. -
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