Emil Mackey paid for the bricks and submitted the comments, citing displeasure over Assembly funding priorities.

Students in the IditaRead Challenge move along the trail one mile per minute spent reading.

The list of proposed cuts will go before the Mat-Su school board for a vote March 16.

If passed by the House, high school students would have to complete a civics course, exam or project to graduate.

The library won the National Medal for Museum and Library Services alongside four other libraries across the country.

Prior to the UAA interim chancellor position, Siemers served as the director of UAA’s Kenai Peninsula College.

With school districts across the state projecting deep cuts, the heads of the House Education Committee say it’s clear last year’s education funding boost wasn’t enough.

Parents and students are expected to flood Mat-Su public meetings this week to protest proposed school funding cuts.

Rural Alaska districts are especially reliant on international teachers to keep instructors in their classrooms.

One ballot initiative is a roughly $80 million bond. The other is a one-time $11.8 million tax hike that school district leaders plan on using to hire 80 teachers.

The Y-K Delta's first ever comic convention included visiting artists, comic book vendors, and lots of cosplay.

The Mat-Su Sentinel's Amy Bushatz says, similar to other districts, Mat-Su schools have suffered from stagnant state funding and declining enrollment, but unlike other parts of the state, the Mat-Su Borough's population isn't shrinking.