Alaska Federation of Natives convention overview and schedule
The Alaska Federation of Natives convention starts Thursday at the Dena'ina Center in Anchorage and runs through Saturday. This year's theme is "Our Children — Our Future Ancestors." AFN is the ...
A fond farewell to Alaska Federation of Natives President Julie Kitka
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Federation of Natives President Julie Kitka, who is Chugach Eskimo, received a long, loving ...
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Alaskans to vote on measure raising the minimum wage and mandating paid sick leave
Alaska voters will weigh in on a ballot measure that would increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2027 and ...
Chilkat Valley News23h
Coalition of Alaska news organizations get funding to help address local news gaps
The Alaska News Coalition, a group which Chilkat Valley News publisher Rashah McChesney helped to found, will receive ...
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Hearing set over handheld gear in Alaska’s Cook Inlet salmon fishery
After giving ’emergency authorization,’ an Alaska state regulatory panel has decided against the permanent approval of dipnets, which are popular with sport fishers but rarely allowed for commercial h ...
Alaska Dispatch News2d
Vera Starbard named new Alaska State Writer Laureate
Starbard, who is Tlingit/Dena’ina Athabascan, has an impressive resume including work as a playwright, magazine editor and ...
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Book review: Twenty years later, Ned Rozell takes another pipeline walk
The science writer returned to the 800-mile Alaska Pipeline corridor, telling his own story within the structure of a time ...
Blackwater Railroad Company to bring their ‘Alaska Song’ to Spokane
Blackwater Railroad Company will be opened by solo sets from the lead singers of two Northwest-based folk bands – Landon Spencer of the Bed Heads and Dallas Lee of Eel Sallad. General admission ...
Alaska’s Fat Bear Contest winner finishes ahead of the bear that killed her cub
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — In a storyline better befitting a melodrama than a popularity vote, Grazer won her second Fat Bear Contest Tuesday by defeating the male behemoth that killed her cub this ...
Alaska Public Media9d
Anchorage Daily News staff votes on unionization, results to come in November
The Tuesday vote was overseen by the National Labor Relations Board at the Anchorage Daily News office in Anchorage.
Newsweek16d
US Tracks Arctic-Bound Russia, China Ships Near Alaska
The United States Coast Guard encountered four vessels from the Russian and Chinese counterparts near Alaska on Saturday as they transited toward the Arctic Ocean for patrols. A U.S. Coast Guard ...
Washington Times17d
Alaska Coast Guard tracks Chinese, Russian vessels in Bering Sea
A version of this story appeared in the daily Threat Status newsletter from The Washington Times. Click here to receive Threat Status delivered directly to your inbox each weekday. Four Russian ...