Alaska’s heroin problem brings together state, local and federal leaders in search of a solution
BETHEL — Alaska’s heroin problem is significant, growing and, authorities say, in need of attention from all quarters to get under
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Author: Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News
Troopers: ‘No survivors’ in midair collision near Russian Mission
BETHEL – None of the five people aboard two planes that collided Wednesday morning in the skies above a Yukon
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Eroding village of Shishmaref votes in favor of relocating to mainland, a key step
Residents of the coastal Alaska village with some of the worst erosion in the state voted this week to relocate rather
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This Canadian just swam by riverboard nearly 2,000 miles down the Yukon River
A few days ago, at the end of a summerlong journey in which he navigated nearly the entire Yukon River
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Alaska Villages without running water or health aides: Federal officials hear about challenges
HOOPER BAY — A severe housing shortage that makes it hard to recruit needed community health aides. High turnover among
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Alaska village, long dry, in close vote on whether to allow a city liquor store
BETHEL – The Southwestern Alaska village of Emmonak split 133 to 119 in Tuesday’s voting for a city liquor store,
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When Alaska fishing village residents can’t fish, normal life comes to an end
QUINHAGAK — Expensive fishing nets sit on the hardware store shelves, unsold. Families struggle to buy baby diapers, back-to-school clothes
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The embers of last year’s wildfires are coming back with a vengeance
BETHEL – Hidden underground all winter, an unusual number of holdover fires that smouldered for months in Alaska’s deep duff
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Alaska pushing feds to allow Western Arctic caribou hunt
Alaska’s biggest caribou herd, one that has swelled and crashed over the past four decades, now is stirring conflict between
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First liquor store in more than 40 years opens in Bethel, Alaska
BETHEL – After decades of political battles over booze in a region where attention is often focused on alcohol-fueled destruction,
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Could good mining jobs actually hurt Bush villages? Y-K Health Corp. thinks so
BETHEL – The biggest employer on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta has taken a stand against the biggest economic development project there,
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Tribes say concern over Alaska Native corporation is intense as meeting nears
BETHEL — Conflict between local Yukon-Kuskokwim tribes and the region’s leading Alaska Native non-profit corporation may come to a head
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Alaska villagers shelter in school after power outage
BETHEL – Residents of the Western Alaska village of Newtok have been sleeping at the school and using wood and
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Alaskans win Norwegian film contest
BETHEL — The challenge was to make a short film about the Arctic that went beyond icons like polar bears
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New approach to sanitation in Alaska villages
BETHEL – Three state-backed teams working to bring running water to 3,300 rural Alaska homes are developing their own versions
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