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Mertarvik residents didn’t get primary ballots. The state says it didn’t know people lived there.

Materials for voting never arrived in Newtok, a sister village, from where absentee ballots were supposed to be taken to Mertarvik.
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Federal energy grants help lighten Alaska nonprofits’ load

Nonprofits typically run on a shoestring, and energy — which the $4 million in federal funding assists with — is usually their second-highest expense.
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Y-K Delta boarding school discovers cheating on math program

Students enrolled at the Kuskokwim Learning Academy, a Bethel-area alternative boarding school, were found to be cheating on their computer-based math curriculum.
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Sharp increase in hospitalizations as COVID case tally rises by 20

The number of people currently in the hospital with COVID-19 in Alaska nearly doubled between Monday and Tuesday.