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Overcrowding is a perennial problem in rural Alaska, but the Covid-19 pandemic has made living with it harder. Cramped conditions offer little space to work from home, conduct virtual schooling, or quarantine, and put many multigenerational households at increased risk of infection. Tackling the problem isn’t easy, but, as Erin McKinstry reports for Alaska Public Media, federal COVID funds are offering some relief in the Bering Straits Region.

Alaska Insight host, Lori Townsend, talks to experts about rural housing challenges.

Alaska’s foster care system has long been challenged by a need for more case workers and foster families, but now the lack of social workers and willing caretakers has reached a crisis level.

The closure could last until 3 p.m. Friday as crews try to clean up the debris. 

“It’s hard. It’s terrifying. And people are making real business decisions at this point with a lot of hope, but with no concrete knowledge of what the season is going to look like,” said an owner of one Juneau tourism company.

If you have a current infection, you might be wondering, when is it safe for me to step out and socialize again?

Dunleavy wants the state to issue $325 million in bonds to pay for construction of ports, airports, fire stations and other projects.

Federal District Court Judge John Sedwick ruled in October that Dunleavy and his former chief of staff violated the First Amendment rights of two state doctors by requiring them to sign what they deemed a loyalty pledge.

The roster is stacked with names familiar to the Kuskokwim mushing community.

The students now must decide whether to appeal the judge’s decision.

Constant is running as a Democrat against longtime Congressman Don Young.

We checked in with some of the Alaskans we interviewed earlier in the pandemic, to asked about how the past two years have shaped them. They spoke of illness and loss, but also growth and hope for the year ahead.

The new board tasked with revitalizing Alaska’s state-run ferry system met for the first time on Feb. 11.

Four major oil companies aren't taking concrete steps to live up to their pledges to transition to clean energy, new research has found.

Born in Hong Kong and raised in Alaska, tea connoisseur Jenny Tse takes us on a tour of the world's first geothermal tea farm, hand-rolls a batch of tea leaves, and serves up the freshest cup of hot tea in the heart of winter.

It has been 21 years since the 2001 Roadless Rule for the Tongass National Forest was first established.

Nearly all of the Kuspuk School District’s new teaching staff come from the Philippines.

Joe Yelverton says the most formative moments of his life, and the story of his survival, began on a day in April 1984 with his friends Steve and Barry, as they approached the top of Eagle Peak.

Alaska’s downward trend follows other states' declines in case counts.

As of Monday, the outbreak at the borough’s Mountain View Manor assisted living wing involved one death and at least 10 people testing positive.