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KYUK and ProPublica launched a project highlighting the public health and safety crisis inside Alaska’s rural public schools this month, kicking off a discussion among lawmakers on the powerful Senate Finance Committee.
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Tribal leaders cited a need for unity on March 13 amid looming federal spending cuts, two years after the conference left AFN over support for subsistence salmon.
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A report from the Alaska Pacific River Forecast Center estimates milder breakup flooding due to low snowpack and warmer-than-normal winter temperatures.
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The district says it has taken steps to ensure better protection after the social security numbers of more than 12,000 students were downloaded by an unknown entity in December 2024.
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Listen to voices from the waiting line at Bethel’s 1A Coastal Conference Basketball Tournament.
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Once one of the states largest caribou herds, southwestern Alaska's Mulchatna caribou herds' low population has failed to recover. Researchers are examining disease and nutrition to understand why.
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Between resignations, firings, and paperwork errors, at least 23 of the roughly 200 people in the National Weather Service's Alaska offices are no longer with the agency, a union source said.
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The Alaska Moravian Church has begun the process of removing the remnants of the historic orphanage and boarding school near Kwethluk. This week, a small group of church members set fire to the main structures on the site, a move they say was overdue.
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For the past few years, Bethel Family Clinic has been struggling to meet local health needs due to limited resources and outdated infrastructure. That may change thanks to a few sources of grant funding.
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In Bethel, the 2024-2025 season has been the sixth mildest winter in 101 years of climate records, according to data from the National Weather Service.
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Fans nearly blew the top off the Warrior Dome for the championship matches of the 37th annual 1A Coastal Conference basketball tournament in Bethel on March 3.
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The ex-Alaska congresswoman and her former chief of staff are working at Holland & Hart, a law firm and lobbying practice with offices in Anchorage and Washington, D.C.
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The Associated Press announced Wednesday that Trump, a Republican, has taken Alaska and its three electoral votes. The majority of Unalaskans voted in his favor. He received about 55% of the vote Tuesday. Some questioned ballots still need to be accounted for, but not enough to turn the island’s presidential choice blue.
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The Bering Sea’s biggest and most lucrative crab fisheries opened last week, and so far, fishing is looking good.“Fishing has been very good for the [Bristol Bay red king crab] fleet this season and the crab delivered so far has been of high quality — new shell, large size, good meat-fill,” said Alaska Department of Fish and Game Area Management Biologist Ethan Nichols.
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Charges against the young man involved in a fatal 2019 Unalaska car crash have been reduced, more than four years after he was originally indicted.Dustin Ruckman, who is now 23 years old, was originally charged in 2020 with two counts of manslaughter, two counts of criminally negligent homicide and one count of reckless driving. He now faces just two counts of criminally negligent homicide.
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Alaska processor Trident Seafoods announced Monday that it probably won’t be processing crab in the Pribilof Island community of St. Paul this season. That comes after the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s decision to reopen the snow crab or opilio fishery after a two-year closure. The state’s announcement on Friday surprised many fishermen. It was also a surprise to Trident.
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