100 million years ago, dinosaurs lived in Interior Alaska. A research team went looking for them.
Paleontologists Tony Fiorillo and Yoshitsugu Kobayashi spent many hours considering footprints left behind by at least half a dozen ancient species.
Hatchery strays could increase the risk of salmon suffocation in streams across Southeast Alaska
Scientists have long warned that hatchery salmon can compete with wild fish for resources, including oxygen.
Water hookups come to Alaska Yup’ik village, and residents are thrilled to ditch their honey buckets
Most of Akiachak’s nearly 700 people began getting modern plumbing for the first time this spring and summer — and finding their lives transformed.
Anchorage inmate dies after 2 days in custody in 7th Alaska inmate death this year
Tristan Andrews was housed at the Anchorage Correctional Complex when he was pronounced dead on Aug. 29. He was 29 years old.
Alaska’s newest education commissioner discusses trans athletes, increasing child literacy and reducing turnover
Deena Bishop is just finishing her first month as Alaska's top education official.
Mat-Su school board votes to sideline student representative, despite overwhelming opposition
The Matanuska-Susitna school board voted to remove most opportunities for their student representative to participate in board work.
A large increase in trash shipping costs in Southeast Alaska has leaders exploring solutions
Petersburg's new trash contract comes with a 34% price hike, which would pile onto the community's already sky-high living expenses.
Haines’ sole daycare loses its food assistance program
The inspections necessary to qualify for the program will not be offered virtually anymore.
Good Medicine exhibit at Anchorage Museum features Indigenous healers and medicine people
Good Medicine includes paintings, illustrations, a medicine wheel, a women’s house and a men’s house – which are traditionally used for healing, teaching and meetings.
Feds will visit Western Alaska to offer Native Vietnam-era veterans land
Alaska Natives who served during the Vietnam War era, as well as their heirs, can claim up to 160 of the 29.5 million acres available.
A deep dive into the Yukon River’s ancient history could result in a new name for a rock formation
The rocks are exposed along a more than 100-mile stretch of the middle section of the Yukon River, between Galena and Kaltag.
2 dead in separate Labor Day Sterling Highway crashes
Troopers say Monday's crashes, at Mile 71.5 and 100 of the highway, left a Wisconsin woman and a Clam Gulch man dead.
Dunleavy appoints new regent to University of Alaska board
Stephen Colligan is Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s third attempt to fill the Board of Regents seat, after Bethany Marcum and Tuckerman Babcock.
As federal workers are ordered back to their offices, pockets of resistance remain
In some corners of the federal government, management and employees remain at odds over what the future should look like.
After a disaster like Juneau’s August flood, mental health can be a neglected part of the recovery
Mental health experts say many people who experience a disaster feel a grief that lasts for weeks, months and even years.
Contractor selected to build nuclear power plant at Eielson Air Force Base
Eielson will be the first U.S. military installation to get a commercialized and licensed microreactor.
I caught the world’s largest silver salmon with a pole spear | INDIE ALASKA
Katya Karankevich is breaking records in the spearfishing scene but she's doing it in Alaska while battling tides, tourists, and glacial silt.
Two people presumed dead in plane crash near Yakutat have been identified
Clayton McMartin, 59, and Melissa McMartin, 58, from Texas were believed to be on the plane.
Anchorage Mayor Bronson sued by former city manager for wrongful termination
Amy Demboski's sprawling 24-page lawsuit includes numerous allegations against the mayor and high-level city staff.
A new e-waste program is recycling tons of batteries from rural Alaska
The Backhaul Alaska program collected and recycled over 145,000 pounds of lead acid batteries and other e-waste from hard-to-reach communities last year.