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The libraries can now offer online access to up-to-date news, plus an archive of old papers. -
The panel says Sen. Scott Kawasaki, D-Fairbanks, violated ethics law by holding constituent events too close to the 2024 state primary. -
The people unaccounted for are from Kwigillingok, one of the communities devastated by the remnants of Typhoon Halong. -
Logging hasn't begun yet, but the Oregon-based company won a contract years ago to carry out the Chilkat Valley’s largest timber sale in decades. -
Residents 65 and older and kids 14 to 17 account for bigger percentages of the state’s working population -
Dozens of residents were rescued after floodwaters in multiple communities swept homes off their foundations. -
Forecasters say the powerful storm, potentially historic in strength, is expected to slam into the Y-K Delta early Sunday and then race up the coastline, bringing destructive winds and surging seas. -
As one storm fades away, Western Alaska communities brace for another. -
ICE arrested Santiago Martinez, a Mexican national seeking asylum in the U.S., on Aug. 11. A judge ruled this week that Martinez couldn’t be held indefinitely without bond. -
Communities are tallying up damage from a severe Bering Sea storm that brought flood warnings to a vast swath of Alaska's western coast.
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