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Anchorage blanketed in white after first sizable snowfall

Anchorage saw a little over six inches of snow Sunday, shattering an almost 60-year-old record for the amount of snowfall recorded on Nov. 5.

The Anchorage Fire Department in downtown Anchorage. (Joey Mendolia/Alaska Public Media)

Muldoon 4-plex fire leaves 2 dead, 1 severely injured

Firefighters say the East 21st Avenue blaze consumed the hallway leading to all four units of the building, complicating efforts to escape.

Survivors say trauma from abusive Native American boarding schools stretches across generations

The traumas inflicted by abusive Native American boarding schools are getting belated attention through a series of federal listening sessions.

Healing Together: A Film Screening and Conversation About Suicide - Nov. 16

Suicide is preventable, but it takes a community-wide effort. The students of Nelson Island School in Toksook Bay are using a model working with the…

From the 10th floor of the famous Begich Towers in Whittier, Alaska, Bibo Chung swings her son Porter in a bucket while her husband Victor Shen contemplates kayaking the roadside ditch that's gushing with meltwater. Baby Jasper clutches a giant pillow and painters tape. Much of the greater Shen family has lived in Whittier since the 1980s. (Photo courtesy of Jeff Chen -- Tropical Islands Up North)

Anchorage photo exhibit highlights Taiwanese diaspora in Alaska

Photographer Jeff Chen said he wanted to highlight the diverse experiences of those people who made Alaska their home.

A Chilkoot totem pole is coming home after 50 years as airline property

Staff at Delta Air Lines' museum offered last summer to repatriate the totem pole, which was carved for Delta predecessor Western Airlines in 1969.

a man on a ladder takes down a street sign that says Seward St crossed out in red

Juneau’s South Seward Street officially renamed Heritage Way

Sealaska Heritage Institute President Kaaháni Rosita Worl proposed the change in April.

thousands of fish released from a net on a boat

With little movement on salmon bycatch, Alaska advocates look to Biden administration for executive action

The move comes amid catastrophic shortfalls in salmon harvests in some of Alaska’s rural, Indigenous communities.

a portrait of a man in a dark button up shoirt

Alaska turned to a private guardianship agency to care for some of its most vulnerable residents. The result: dysfunction and debt.

The Office of Public Advocacy, facing a staffing crisis, relied on a fledgling nonprofit to lighten its caseload. Some transferred clients lost critical benefits.

Alaska Permanent Fund board unlikely to pursue faster, riskier path to $100B

The Alaska Permanent Fund appears headed toward maintaining its current steady growth over the next few years.

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