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Republicans Lavish Alaska With Benefits in Policy Bill, Grasping for a Key Vote
New provisions that benefit whaling captains and rural hospitals appear to be aimed at winning over Senator Lisa Murkowski, ...
School bus carrying 40+ cruise guests hits SUV in Alaska, three taken to hospital
A school bus carrying more than 40 cruise passengers collided with an SUV in Alaska on Thursday.
Baseball in the Everlasting Light of Fairbanks, Alaska
For more than a century, baseball teams in Fairbanks have played at midnight on the summer solstice, illuminated only by the ...
In words and photos, rural Alaska residents reflect on their village's sustainable practices
GALENA, Alaska -- In rural central Alaska, a village is in the midst of a clean energy transformation that locals say will ...
Who was Olga, the Alaska Native drawing devotion as Orthodoxy’s new saint?
The first female Orthodox saint in North America was an Indigenous woman who spent her entire life with her Yup'ik family and ...
Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint
St. Olga, a Yup'ik woman who died in 1979 at age 63, was a midwife, a mother of 13 and the wife of an Orthodox Christian ...
"Multiple system failures" led to door plug flying off Alaska Airlines flight in 2024, NTSB chair says
National Transportation Safety Board investigators on Tuesday made new safety recommendations following the Jan. 5, 2024, ...
NTSB blames Boeing, FAA for cause of Alaska Airlines door plug blowout
The mid-exit door plug separated from the Boeing 737 Max 9 passenger plane on Jan. 5, 2024, minutes after Flight 1282 took ...
An Alaska brown bear has a new shiny smile after getting a huge metal crown for a canine tooth
An Alaska brown bear at the Lake Superior Zoo in northeastern Minnesota has a gleaming new silver-colored canine tooth after ...
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How an Arctic staple became Alaska’s signature style
The kuspuk is a regional fashion trend and has been one for many years now. Today, they are worn everywhere in Alaska by ...
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In Canada’s ‘Silicon Valley’ of mining, speculators power a hunt for Alaska’s minerals
Vancouver, British Columbia, home to dozens of companies searching the world for minerals, has a special interest in the ...
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What’s at risk for Arctic wildlife if Trump expands oil drilling in the fragile National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska
The largest tract of public land in the United States is a wild expanse of tundra and wetlands stretching across nearly 23 million acres of northern Alaska. It’s called the National Petroleum Reserve ...