Alena Naiden
Alaska Desk Reporter, AnchorageBased at Alaska Desk partner station KNBA in Anchorage, Alena Naiden focuses on rural and Indigenous communities in the Arctic and around the state.
Before joining the Alaska Desk, Alena was a reporter at the Anchorage Daily News and Arctic Sounder for over three years, covering a wide range of issues affecting the North Slope and Northwest Arctic. Before that, she wrote for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.
Alena is from Russia and considers herself lucky to call Alaska home.
Reach Alena at alena.naiden@knba.org or 907-793-3695.
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Officials are still assessing the damage, but the Denali Borough mayor says he knows for certain that people have lost their primary residences. -
Some homes and other structures have burned, but it is not clear yet how many. -
The Government Accountability Office found that the Joint Pipeline Office has scaled back its oversight of the pipeline over time. -
Residents have been trying to remove the mayor from office for using public funds to pay for his family's travel. -
The National Transportation Safety Board has been investigating the crash. -
Two people died in Wednesday’s crash, according to the NTSB. -
The census is a way to evaluate population's health and support subsistence -
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, more than 120 Ukrainians have settled in the Delta Junction area. -
A Senate oversight hearing focused on cuts to services like child care, help for domestic violence victims and substance abuse prevention. -
From the Aleutians to the Interior to Southeast, we asked Alaskans how they’d rate President Trump’s first 100 days in office. Here’s what they told us.
