Yereth Rosen
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Phillip Blanchett, the musician and artist who emceed the event, took time to speak about the flood and storm damages in Western Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, his home region. -
Residents 65 and older and kids 14 to 17 account for bigger percentages of the state’s working population -
Alaska has consistently had some of the nation’s highest rates of gonorrhea and chlamydia, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. -
Alaska had more flu cases reported in the past year than in any of the three prior years. -
Closely monitored Barry Arm is a test case in a region where melting glaciers, steep slopes and narrow fjords set up conditions for dangerous tsunami-generating slides. -
The Bureau of Land Management is considering a plan that would allow up to eight companies to conduct heli-skiing operations over 10 seasons. -
Along with military needs, energy and economic needs are classified as issues of security in a report listing Arctic research priorities. -
Natural gas was flared over a six-month period at the Badami field, constituting what regulators determined was a waste of a state resource. -
The penalty was for repeated discharges of oily bilge water. -
A new report by Indigenous leaders and Alaska scientists proposes an independent review of Yukon River Chinook and chum salmon issues by an entity like the National Academy of Sciences.
