Test targets colorectal cancer in Alaska Natives
For Alaska’s indigenous people, colorectal cancer presents a double challenge. Alaska Natives have high rates of the disease, while those
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Food insecurity in Alaska
In the far north, where wild fish, game and plants are dietary staples and where store-bought foods are sometimes prohibitively expensive,
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For Alaskans in Paris, climate talks hit home
After two weeks of talks, representatives from around the world hammered out the final details of a global climate change agreement
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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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New police unit to fight violent crime in west Alaska
BETHEL – Alaska State Troopers are creating a new unit, effective Tuesday, to focus on violent crime in the Yukon-Kuskokwim
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Blog: Arctic Observing Open Science Meeting
Last week in Seattle, the Arctic Observing Open Science Meeting (AOOSM) convened for the first time in seven years. The meeting was
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Liquor stores approved in Bethel, Alaska
BETHEL – The first legal liquor sales in more than 40 years are coming to Bethel. The state Alcoholic Beverage
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Driving the sea ice, tundra in Arctic Alaska
When the highway ends for Alaska’s ice road truckers, the adventure is just beginning for the hearty souls who haul vehicles and freight across
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Drivers criticize Anchorage road conditions
Schools closed, drivers slipped, slid and crashed into each other, and for the second time in a week there was generalized
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How did climate affect ancient wildlife in Arctic Alaska?
For about 1,000 years at the end of the last ice age, the woolly mammoths, steppe bison, ancient horses and
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U.S. Coast Guard wraps up busy Arctic season
DEADHORSE — Lt. Jason Evans was piloting a Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopter over the oil fields of Alaska’s North Slope when
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New Arctic R&D center in Alaska
The Department of Homeland Security has launched a new research and development center in Alaska, looking to a future in which sophisticated algorithms
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Oil & gas industry messages Alaska students
With talk of taxes on the rise and Alaska struggling with massive deficits, an oil and gas trade association representing some
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Ancient Alaska remains suggest ice-age diversity
Two ice-age infants discovered in Interior Alaska left a genetic record that suggests ancient culture in this part of the
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Alaska first state to declare Indigenous Peoples Day
Alaska is now the first state to recognize the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples Day instead of Columbus
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