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The Trump administration joined with tribes to get vaccines to rural and Indigenous Alaskans. Here’s how.
After a year of pleading for access to COVID-19 testing and protective equipment, tribal health-care leaders say that a vaccine partnership with the Trump administration has brought good access to doses for rural areas and a measure of relief amid an unrelenting public health crisis.
One-of-a-kind photo collection documents 75 years of life in Angoon
Cyril George, a Tlingit from the Beaver Clan of Angoon, died six years ago, but his 4,000 photos of life in the village will finally be available to the public.
Retiring at 70, this MD helped lung patients, climbed Denali, ran the Iditarod and saved lives along the trail. Hear her stories.
Beth Baker came to Alaska at age 32, joining an Anchorage medical group as a pulmonary physician in 1982, staying with them for 36...
NTSB: Alaska lawmaker killed in midair crash did not have required medical certificate
The federal agency says Rep. Gary Knopp was denied a medical certificate in June 2012 because of vision problems. It released the information as part of its investigation into the fatal crash that killed Knopp and six others.
Documents: pilots had just seconds to see each other before fatal George Inlet crash
The crash in May of 2019 killed six people and injured ten more.
A Skagway newspaper owner was turned back at the Canadian border. Agents deemed her return home “non-essential”
When Canadian border agents deemed one Skagway News publisher’s trip back to Skagway non-essential, it left her operating a local paper… remotely.
Gretchen Wehmhoff and...
Border woes: When Canada says no
Kathryn Miller and her boyfriend were just trying to get home to Juneau with a truck they'd just purchased in Anchorage. But at the...
Kenai community remembers longtime pilot killed in plane crash
Greg Bell, 57, was a co-owner of High Adventure Air Charter and a lifelong Soldotna resident. He was flying one of the planes in the collision that killed seven last week, including Rep. Gary Knopp.
Kenai legislator and local pilot among 7 killed in midair plane crash
Seven people died after two planes collided midair near Soldotna on Friday, according to Alaska State Troopers. All were confirmed dead on scene except for one person that succumbed to injuries during transport to the local hospital, troopers said.
People entering Alaska by land and sea must follow the state’s travel policy. Here are the rules.
Travelers taking a car or boat into Alaska will have similar rules to those taking a flight, though ferry travel has stricter requirements.
Your questions about traveling through Canada, answered
We’ve had several questions from listeners about whether they can cross the Canadian border to go to or from Alaska. Alaska Public Media’s Liz Ruskin looked into it and has a few answers.
State regulators fine Hilcorp $30,000 for meter-related violations on Kenai Peninsula
The regulators cited the company’s history of violations as a factor behind the penalty.
Marine heatwaves will cripple salmon, cod and pollock at twice the rate previously predicted, study says
Slight rises in sea temperatures can cause dramatic collapses in the reproduction of some fish and patches of warm water in the Gulf of Alaska can have particularly severe affects for important fish stocks.
Beaver numbers have exploded in Northwest Alaska with some striking effects on the environment
In 2002, scientists counted two active beaver dams in the region of the Baldwin Peninsula. Now there are 98, which scientists and locals say is contributing to climate change and affecting salmon spawning.
Our 16 favorite photos of frosty Iditarod mushers and fuzzy muzzles
With temperatures plunging deep into the negatives on Tuesday, mushers and dogs sported a coating of frost when they pulled into Nikolai, a small village about a quarter of the way into the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Iditarod mushers say the trail to Nikolai was so smooth that it even put some of them to sleep
The roughly 80-mile stretch from Rohn to Nikolai usually has has some of the worst trail conditions anywhere along the 1,000-mile route. But not this year.
Citing ‘escalation of violence,’ Noorvik pleads with local, state officials for law enforcement
Residents of the Northwest Arctic village of Noorvik, where there is no village public safety officer, say their town is feeling increasingly unsafe. Describing a “dangerous escalation of violence,” villagers have drafted a letter to local, state and federal officials asking for permanent law enforcement.
The operators of the flight crashed last week, killing 5, had 3 other incidents in 2019
Yute Commuter Service, whose plane crashed and killed five people last week, including the pilot, is owned by a family whose aircraft were involved in several incidents last year.
It flew! All-electric seaplane completes milestone first flight near Vancouver.
The maiden flight represents a milestone in the long process of reducing the aviation industry’s emissions, noise and costs by electrifying short-to-medium distance commercial flying.
A new menace for Anchorage dogs: river otters
“If I hadn't intervened," the dog's owner said. "I'm certain that they would have killed her."