Yet over the past 25 years, state officials have largely ignored hundreds of requests by rural school districts to fix the problems that have left public schools across Alaska crumbling ...

(James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) Throughout rural Alaska, the summer’s fuel barges are arriving at docks with loads of diesel, heating fuel and a big bill for cities and boroughs. Away from Alaska ...

Alaska's rural schools are facing a public health and safety crisis from long-delayed repairs. For years, Alaska school districts statewide have submitted hundreds of millions of dollars in ...

28—The Alaska Supreme Court issued an order on Monday lowering the minimum score needed to pass the bar exam and practice ... serious criminal charges in rural Alaska. The change applies ...

Getting to rural communities can take days and is often delayed by the great distances to cover, the vagaries of the weather and — in the minds of many Alaska Natives — the low priority placed ...

Fuel prices tend to run high in Alaska’s rural and roadless communities. For a short time this spring, fuel costs in some rural villages were actually lower than in the state’s largest cities.

“I really believe this is going to be a game-changer for economic development in rural Alaska.” A Starlink dish is mounted outside of a home in Bethel, Alaska. Without the option of high-speed ...

In collaboration with filmmaker Joshua Branstetter, Norton-Cruz produced At Home/In Home: Rural Alaska Childcare in Crisis, a documentary that would cause a stir up at Alaska’s state legislature. It ...

But over the past 25 years, Alaska lawmakers have ignored hundreds of requests for public schools that primarily serve Indigenous children. Rural schools in Alaska are crumbling. The state is the ...

Rural school districts depend on the state to fund construction and maintenance projects. But over the past 25 years, Alaska lawmakers have ignored hundreds of requests for public schools that ...