Sex crimes in Alaska: The most common victim is a 14-year-old girl assaulted in a home
Alaska’s sex crime victims mainly are young — just children, really. They most often are targeted in someone’s home. And
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Author: Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News
It’s not just heroin killing Alaskans: Meth deaths here are up four-fold
A 17-year-old dead from a meth overdose at a Palmer party. Protesters in Utqiaġvik – formerly Barrow – marching and
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Preserving Indigenous languages in Alaska, one grocery store at a time
Some rural Alaska shoppers have new ways to find dairy and doughnuts, body wash and toilet paper. And if they
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Man banished from Alaska Indigenous community for bootlegging
BETHEL — The tribal government in the village of Akiak this month banished the husband of a teacher, accusing him
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‘Over 15 mph, we make clouds’: Road dust plagues rural Alaska
BETHEL — Across rural Alaska, cars, trucks and four-wheelers kick up clouds of road dust, a plague that coats tundra berries and
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More than 150 Alaskan villages excluded from jury duty, can residents get fair trial?
BETHEL — In remote villages all over Alaska, no one ever gets called for state jury duty. To save money,
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Parasite in uncooked walrus meat made ten Alaskans sick, says health protection agency
The first sign came when a teenage girl from Gambell ended up in the hospital last summer. She was having
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‘The permafrost is dying’: Alaska city sees increased shifting of roads and buildings
BETHEL — Along the main thoroughfare here, drivers brake for warped asphalt. Houses sink unevenly into the ground. Walls crack and
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Feature: Yupik Alaskan community celebrates village life
SAVOONGA, Alaska – On St. Lawrence Island, way out in the Bering Sea and closer to Russia’s eastern edge than
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A new digital atlas documents thousands of Yup’ik places in Alaska
BETHEL – A project to preserve Yup’ik language and culture already has put more than 4,000 Southwest Alaska place names
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Alaska: Co-owner of flightseeing business under attack for anti-Native remarks posted on Facebook
A pilot who is majority owner of a flightseeing business outside Denali National Park has enraged many in recent days
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Alaska Iñupiaq leaders hope Barrow’s name change to Utqiaġvik helps heal and teach
The new-old name for Barrow may take some practice to pronounce, and it’s time to start: Utqiaġvik won the nod
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Alaska Federation of Natives speaker calls for movement of Native power
FAIRBANKS – An up-and-coming Alaska Native leader called a new-to-Alaska legal mechanism for protecting tribal lands a colonial-era tool and
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An ‘elder in training’ teaches Alaska crowd how to butcher a seal
FAIRBANKS — She didn’t have her big ulu or her special slanted board but Marjorie “Kunaq” Tahbone smoothly sliced blubber
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Alaska: Sudden crackdown on four-wheelers quiets Bethel streets and upsets residents
BETHEL — In the space of just days, a crackdown targeting four-wheelers and snowmachines on the streets in the rural
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