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Lori Townsend reports, the people who monitor seismic activity worldwide are in Alaska

We learn about the Alaska-based effort to monitor and warn about tsunamis.

The test usually happens in late March, around the anniversary of the 1964 earthquake.

Liz Goggin, a social worker with the Veterans Health Administration, took the offer to resign in exchange for pay and benefits through September. Then she learned her position was exempt.

High school boys in one Kuskokwim River village can “forget the muscle cars,” said Barron Sample, principal of the school there. “You get the muscle dogs."

For the first time in Alaska history, the state’s supreme court is majority female. It’s also being led, for just the second time, by a woman.

Some trans Alaskans have lost health insurance coverage for gender-affirming care. And the barrage of pointed executive orders is causing stress, anxiety and fear for many.

Natural Resources Commissioner John Boyle said creating a cabinet-level agriculture department would force the state to focus on growing the agriculture sector on a long-term basis.

Sen. Murkowski introduces a bill to keep Denali as the name for America's tallest peak. Plus, lawmakers consider splitting the Division of Agriculture off as its own department.

Republican support for the bill may be scarce because it requires defying a Trump order. He wants to revert to the name Mount McKinley.