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A Western Alaska village is finally getting high-speed internet, thanks to the pandemic
Many people moved their lives online because of the pandemic, but that wasn’t always possible in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Pilot Station hunters return home after a week stranded at fish camp. Here’s their story.
After seven days, they left fish camp with just the clothes on their backs and what they could fit in their pockets: their phones and GPS.
How this Anchorage muralist is making her mark on the city
Rejoy Armamento's pieces often celebrate women and diversity, sometimes on part of a wall inside a local business, sometimes outdoors across the entire side of a building. Some recent work included focusing on women of color who work as food vendors in Anchorage.
After more than 30 years at sea, a message in a bottle washes up near Skagway
A Skagway resident has found a message in a bottle washed up on a beach with no indication of who sent it — or...
For once, clearing skies in Juneau pull back curtain on brilliant aurora
The lights appeared amid a skein of clouds that, for once, had opened just enough. Many who passed up sleep to see the aurora posted images to social media showing intense green waves, purple spikes and ribbons of deep red dancing over the mountains and Gastineau Channel.
Anchorage kids ages 5-11 get first shots of COVID vaccine at school district clinic
The Anchorage School District received 500 pediatric doses of the vaccine from the state on Wednesday and held a clinic at the district office for families.
Thousands of Alaskans are considering suicide. You can learn to help them choose life.
Thousands of Alaskans seriously consider suicide every year. Learning to talk directly about it can help people intervene and stop someone from trying.
A beluga from the Beaufort Sea has traveled unusually far south — all the way to Washington state
In the first week of October, The Seattle Times reported a single beluga whale had been sighted in multiple places across Puget Sound — something that hasn’t been seen in the area since the 1940s.
Puppy found alive on beach after fishing boat capsizes near Kodiak Island
When the fishing boat capsized, Grace, an 8-month-old puppy, jumped into the freezing water and was presumed lost. But a day later, the Coast Guard found her. She seemed a bit shocked, but she was alive.
What’s that reddish color on Wrangell’s petroglyphs?
A beach on the northern tip of Wrangell Island in Southeast Alaska is home to rock carvings estimated to be at least 8,000 years old — petroglyphs made by the ancestors of Wrangell’s Lingít people. Recently, one of the larger petroglyphs seemed to change color. And that ignited some debate in town. Was it vandalism or a naturally-occurring reddening?
After smashing records and destroying roads, rain continues to fall in Girdwood
By Monday morning, just under 14 inches of rain had fallen in three days in Girdwood — the most rain since the National Weather service started keeping track in the ski town, in 1955.
Eating disorders are on the rise in Alaska, but local resources are scarce
The number of Americans with eating disorders has skyrocketed during the pandemic. Alaska does not have enough resources to help them.
Anchorage’s homelessness director resigns
John Morris was a proponent of building a large temporary shelter for homeless people in East Anchorage and was the second of six members of a working group developing a plan to move an emergency shelter out of the Sullivan Arena.
Global supply shortages are driving up Alaska oil prices
Alaska North Slope crude has been trending up for most of 2021. On Tuesday it closed at more than $87 a barrel.
Early election results show Anchorage Midtown voters rejecting recall of Assembly member Zaletel
There are still more votes to be counted.
Scientists are still following whales that swam through the Exxon Valdez oil spill
The pod is called the Chugach Transients. There were once 22 whales in the group. Now there's seven. The Chugach Transients have not had a calf since swimming through the oil spill.
Hurricane-level winds cause widespread damage in Unalaska
The winds ripped off roofs, toppled trucks and tore boats from their docks.
Alaska troopers ID serial killer’s victim 40 years after murder
She’d been known as “Horseshoe Harriet” after her body was found 37 years ago near Horseshoe Lake north of Anchorage. Troopers announced Friday the young woman’s real name was Robin Pelkey, a 19-year-old originally from Colorado. She was murdered by Robert Hansen.
Anchorage teachers rally outside school board meeting, unsatisfied with district contract proposals
Teachers raised three main concerns over ASD’s proposed contract: no increase in salaries, the reduction of planning time, and a new health care plan which many found inferior.
Episcopal Diocese of Alaska to investigate the history of church-operated boarding schools for Indigenous children
Episcopal Diocese of Alaska Bishop Mark Lattime said the action was prompted by the discovery this summer of unmarked graves where Indigenous children were buried at church-run, Canadian boarding schools.