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Now that residents are feeling less at risk of further slides, some say they’re enjoying their temporary isolation.

Skagway filed suit last year, challenging the redistricting board’s legislative map pairing it with the Mendenhall Valley by arguing that it was more socio-economically aligned with downtown Juneau.

The company owns and operates nine retail outlets around Alaska and one in Montana. Sometimes they're the only grocer in town.

Some clinics have already started to turn away people without insurance who come to get tested and can't afford to pay for it.

After two years of COVID-related cancellations, the much-celebrated Cama-i Dance Festival is back.

Misinformation about solar power and wind farms is leading local governments across the country to restrict — or even reject — renewable energy projects. It's a threat to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, researchers warn.

By Monday, no residents had been reported injured or missing, and power had been restored to most impacted homes. City officials had also carved a path so residents can travel in the area by snowmachine.

The bill establishes a pilot program for tribes to exercise what’s called Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction. This recognizes the authority of tribes to exercise criminal jurisdiction over non-natives who commit certain crimes against a Native victim on Tribal land. These crimes include stalking, domestic violence, and sexual assault. The tribes now await the details on how to apply, according to Winter Montgomery, Tribal Justice Attorney for AVCP.

Gray-Jackson said she looks forward to “supporting a new candidate who represents the best of Alaska’s ideals to challenge” Sen. Murkowski.

Gross made an unsuccessful bid for U.S. Senate in 2020.

Subsistence harvesters are trying to figure out how the diesel spill could affect their harvest season, which typically happens a little later in the spring.

Mille Porsild of Denmark, Michelle Phillips of Canada and Riley Dyche of Fairbanks were penalized for taking dogs inside shelter cabins to ride out the storm with winds so strong, they whipped up white-out conditions.

The Food and Drug Administration is expected to authorize the additional booster shots without holding a meeting of its independent vaccine advisors.

Community Health Workers are relatively new to Alaska. They come from the communities they serve. They get specialized training in communication and health systems, and their mission is to help guide people toward the health care they need.

The pairing had drawn intense discussion among Alaska Redistricting Board members last fall as they worked to finalize new maps.

Jharrett Bryantt, Mathew Neal and Frank Hauser will tour the district, participate in town halls and have final interviews with the school board on Monday and Tuesday.

Following Rep. Don Young's death, Alaskans and members of Congress are reflecting on his half-century political career.

More than four feet of snow fell in Valdez over the last month, causing a buildup of snow that damaged infrastructure and vented petroleum vapors into the environment, the Anchorage Daily News reported Friday.

As of 11 a.m. Friday morning, Anchorage police say no homes were hit by the avalanche and there are no reports of people trapped.

The group argues that the restrictions no longer reflect the "realities of the current epidemiological environment."