Confidential report paints bleak picture for Iditarod
The Iditarod sled dog race is in trouble. That’s the finding from a confidential report looking into the financial sustainability
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Amid shrinking sea ice, hunters race to adapt in Alaska
With warm temperatures this winter across the state, sea ice is forming exceptionally slowly in the Arctic and Bering Strait
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After budget cuts and crime spikes, Alaska prosecutors struggle to keep up
The State of Alaska does not have enough criminal attorneys, and is struggling to prosecute violent crimes, according to officials
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Can Alaska handle its senior population growth?
In the 1970s and early 80s people flooded Alaska looking for work in the oil industry and other fields. Now,
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Iditarod wants new kennel management guidelines for mushers
The Iditarod Trail Committee’s Board of Directors wants to set up a kennel management program, a move aiming to set
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Ditch the stores and hit the Alaska trails: a new Black Friday tradition
A growing number of Americans are ditching crowded stores on Black Friday and hitting the trails instead. The “Opt Outside”
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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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Remembering struggles of Alaska’s once oldest WWII veteran
Alfredo Agron’s life was a long one. When he died two years ago at the age of 104, he had
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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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Drinking, smoking consumption in decline, but suicide plans on the rise among Alaska teens
Fewer Alaska high school students say they are drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes compared to a decade ago, according to
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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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Iditarod musher claims innocence after dogs test positive for drugs
Dallas Seavey said he hasn’t slept in two weeks. “I haven’t eaten. I haven’t slept,” the four-time Iditarod champion said
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State Attorney General says all 229 Alaska tribes are sovereign
Last week, on the second day of this year’s annual AFN gathering in Anchorage, another significant announcement regarding the relationship
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Alaska and its tribes sign child services agreement
State officials say the new Alaska Tribal Child Welfare Compact — signed today at the 51st annual Alaska Federation of
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Elder keynote address highlights generational parallels in Alaska
The Acilquq Dance Group performing an invitational song on stage to kick off the second day of this year’s Elders
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