Rural Alaska at risk as COVID-19 surge swamps faraway hospitals
One Indigenous village in Alaska knew what to do to keep out COVID-19. They put up a gate on the only
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‘So big and so happy’: Voting underway in Alaska’s annual Fat Bear Week contest
Winner last year weighed an estimated 630 kilograms A contest to determine the beefiest brown bear is underway in Alaska.
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Alaska’s North Slope grapples with soaring COVID-19 infection rate, low vaccinations
Alaska’s North Slope has seen the highest coronavirus infection rates of any region in the state recently. And while the
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Norway ambassador visits Alaska to talk climate, Russia and, yes, Norwegian dog mushing success
Norway’s ambassador to the United States has been in Alaska recently. Anniken Krutnes, Norway’s first female ambassador to the U.S.,
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Itn’l Inuit org approves report on ethical engagement with Indigenous knowledge
The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) has approved a report that will help guide the creation of protocols for ethical engagement
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Biden administration will review Trump’s plan that opened most of the NPR-A to oil development
The Biden administration will re-examine the land use plan for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, with the likely effect of putting
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Scientists retrace steps of Ice Age mammoth over its entire lifetime
Scientists use chemical signatures in male mammoth’s tusks to pinpoint where it was each year More than 17,000 years ago,
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Biden admin goes back to drawing board on oil leasing in Arctic Refuge
The Biden administration announced Tuesday it will formally reconsider a decision allowing oil lease sales across the northern coastal plain
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No tsunami threat to B.C. after powerful M8.2 earthquake shakes Alaska
Quake that struck on Wednesday night was the most powerful recorded in U.S. or Canada since 1965: USGS data A
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Cruise ship arrives in Skagway, Alaska after passenger flown home with COVID-19
‘Nothing in life comes without risk,’ says Skagway Mayor Andrew Cremata as 1st big ship calls Andrew Cremata, mayor of
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Alaska’s Northwest Arctic Borough gets $2 million tribal energy grant
U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Tuesday announced 13 tribal energy grants, about half of which are going to Alaska
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Pentagon ponders where to build new Ted Stevens Arctic Center. Alaska? Maybe.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin this week announced the establishment of the “Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies.” But the
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Cruise ship docks in Skagway, Alaska for the first time in 21 months
Cruise ship a welcome sign for hard hit tourism town: mayor For the first time in nearly two years, a cruise
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‘That’s the law’: Alaska Senator confronts land managment nominee about ANWR
President Biden’s nominee to head the Bureau of Land Management works at the National Wildlife Federation. Sen. Lisa Murkowski was
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Trump accuses Murkowski of killing ANWR; ‘I will be there to campaign against her!’ he vows
Former President Donald Trump has issued a media statement saying Sen. Lisa Murkowski is responsible for the Biden administration’s decision
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