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The bill would ban AI-generated child sexual abuse material and, for adults, AI deepfakes and revenge porn. It also includes sharp limits on minors' use of social media. -
The Mat-Su Sentinel's Amy Bushatz says, similar to other districts, Mat-Su schools have suffered from stagnant state funding and declining enrollment, but unlike other parts of the state, the Mat-Su Borough's population isn't shrinking. -
The recommendations are not binding but offer the legislature a guide to what laws Alaska would need to offer care if medicines become legal federally. -
Millions of federal dollars were recently awarded to the Kodiak Island spaceport and its owner, Alaska Aerospace Corporation as it prepares for more launches with the federal government. -
Language educators in Juneau are working to create a Master’s in Teaching program for Indigenous languages at the University of Alaska Southeast. It would be the first of its kind in Alaska. -
Even the heartiest of Fairbanks sourdoughs are struggling to remember a winter as cold and snowy. -
Under Alaska law, adoption ends the legal relationship between children and birth families — including siblings. Foster youth have called for changes to the law to preserve contact. -
The Trump administration has been sending asylum seekers from Ukraine and Russia back to a warzone. One family in Minnesota says they fear for their lives. -
The Board of Fisheries approves restrictions to allow more chum salmon to reach the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers. -
The proposal has revived concern over legacy contamination from ore shipping in the local port, and how to ensure it doesn’t continue.
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