With food insecurity rising, Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska opens island’s first official food bank
Unlike the state’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the Unalaska Food Bank doesn’t have any income requirements.
Icy roads again close Anchorage and Mat-Su schools after overnight windstorm hits Southcentral Alaska
The Anchorage School District said early Tuesday that there was "extreme ice on roads and parking lots."
Togiak basketball team travels 70 miles by snowmachine to its first competition since the pandemic began
With no planes flying, 10 students, coaches and chaperones snowmachined across frozen tundra, streams and lakes to the tournament.
More contagious version of omicron spreads in US, fueling worries
The virus, known as BA.2, is a strain of the highly contagious omicron variant that appears to spread even more easily — about 30% more easily.
Alaska Senate considers different proposals to change PFD formula
The Senate Finance Committee considered two bills on Monday that would set PFDs at a lower level than the roughly $2,500 Gov. Mike Dunleavy proposed.
Think you have supply chain woes? Try building in rural Alaska, where prices are high and the season is short.
Every step of the supply chain, from manufacturing to shipping to distribution, has lost any sense of a normal rhythm.
Roland Maw reaches plea deal on PFD fraud
Roland Maw will no longer be allowed to collect PFDs.
Huge opal sells for nearly $144,000 at Alaska auction
The opal, dubbed the “Americus Australis,” weighs more than 11,800 carats.
Pete Kaiser wins the 2022 Bogus Creek 150, sweeping both Kuskokwim mid-distance sled dog races this season
Kaiser, of Bethel, won the Bogus Creek 150 race on Sunday.
‘A deep depression after the Olympics’: The challenges facing athletes at home
The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee formed a mental health task force ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
After more than a decade, overcrowded Shaktoolik is finally getting new homes
Alaskans are twice as likely to live in an overcrowded household than the national average. Rates are highest in small, off-the-road-system communities like Shaktoolik.
Anchorage police have no timeline on implementing body-worn cameras as current draft policy draws scrutiny
Anchorage voters approved the purchase of the cameras during an election last spring. But Chief Michael Kerle says the department is still sorting through the thorny issues involved with implementing the policy.
Bill from Alaska delegation would allow cruises to bypass Canada ports again
Royal Caribbean International’s Ovation of the Seas, a quantum-class cruise ship, in Skagway’s port. (Claire Stremple/KHNS)
Alaska’s congressional delegation wants to extend the waiver of...
Anchorage School District to make masking optional on Feb. 28
Superintendent Deena Bishop said the change follows a rapid drop in COVID cases in the state and the widespread availability of vaccines.
Hometown Alaska: Teens talk about coping with COVID
On this week's Hometown Alaska, Anchorage teens describe how they have suffered, endured, and even grown through living under the COVID-19 pandemic. We'll hear...
Home is home: finding a way to stay amid a housing shortage in rural Alaska
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.
Housing providers search for solutions to overcrowding in rural Alaska | Alaska Insight
Alaska Insight host, Lori Townsend, talks to experts about rural housing challenges.
Talk of Alaska: The crisis in Alaska’s foster care system
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.
Seward Highway reopens after avalanche
The closure could last until 3 p.m. Friday as crews try to clean up the debris.
Cruise lines are predicting a record year, but Southeast Alaska is proceeding with caution
“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.