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Cooper Landing Emergency Services volunteers are in short supply, as the community has struggled with providing affordable housing necessary to retain them.

By Wednesday, Nov. 23, workers will be done counting the first choice votes on everyone’s ballot. This year, there’s an additional step – called tabulation or sorting.

Legislative candidates are handling the weekslong wait in different ways. For Cathy Giessel, it’s spending some time catching up on less political activities, like quilting.

Fish and Game biologist Dave Battle said the department got daily calls this summer about the sow and three cubs getting into trash and birdseed.

A long-planned cable connecting Metlakatla and Ketchikan took a big step toward becoming a reality on Thursday, with the announcement of a federal grant.

Some 193 Thanksgiving food baskets were distributed over the weekend through the Homer Community Food Pantry, at the Homer United Methodist Church.

A wide variety of Arctic animals including polar bears are being exposed to a tick-borne pathogen normally associated with rabbits and hares, a newly published study said.

The Food Bank of Alaska handed out thousands of free frozen turkeys and holiday meal kits through its annual Thanksgiving Blessing events.

In years past, teams from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson had to take snowmachines up the mountain to turn the star on and off.

Alaska had about 6,100 more jobs last month than in October 2021 but most industries had not regained pre-pandemic job levels, a state labor department report shows.