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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How soldiers and park rangers are preparing for Denali climbing season
KAHILTNA GLACIER BASE CAMP — Three massive U.S. Army helicopters swept onto a stretch of snow here Sunday, surrounded by mountains
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University of Alaska is planning new tuition increases and hundreds of staff cuts
University of Alaska President Jim Johnsen presented two revised draft budget proposals Thursday, both cutting hundreds of staff jobs across
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1,000 experts converge in Alaska for Arctic events
You could call it Arctic-Palooza. About 1,000 scientists, policymakers, business managers, students and others interested in the Arctic are set
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Veterans suffering from PTSD cheer on Iditarod musher who supports them
RAINY PASS LODGE — Jeff Turkel traveled to the Rainy Pass checkpoint Monday to heal. The 56-year-old once served in
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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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A beachcomber did a ‘happy dance’ after this unusual discovery in Anchor Point
Ginger Frizzell was walking along the beach Wednesday in Anchor Point with camera in hand, as she does several times a
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With Anchorage icy and snowless, Iditarod officials shorten ceremonial start
Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race mushers will travel only 3 miles through Anchorage during Saturday’s ceremonial start instead of the traditional 11-mile
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Despite back injury, Hendrickson returns to Iditarod
WILLOW — After about an hour of sitting on the couch in her log home north of Willow in late January,
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Ice road truck woes: off-course pickups fall victim to Big Lake
WASILLA – Several pickups have broken through the ice of Big Lake since early January, as many as three in the
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Iditarod mushers pack fish, beef, stew and Twinkies for fuel
Paul Gebhardt has started the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race 19 times. He’s placed second twice and has learned a
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How Iditarod checkpoints get their straw
Mushers need straw — lots of straw — for their dogs during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, and on Thursday roughly 50
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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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Whaling ship wreckage found off Arctic Alaska
When pack ice shifted to trap 33 commercial whaling ships off Alaska’s Arctic coast in the fall of 1871, more than
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‘Farm in a box’ offers year-round Alaska crops
An Anchorage startup company has found a new use for the refrigerated container vans that once brought perishable items to
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