For the past six months, the city has been leasing the land to a local cannabis business — a situation that can no longer continue, the city says, because selling marijuana remains federally illegal.

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About nine percent of Alaska children are currently uninsured — nearly twice the national average.

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An organization funded by the Murdoch family has donated more than a half-million dollars to a campaign to overhaul Alaska’s election laws and establish a system of ranked choice voting, making it easier to elect independent candidates.

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Since 1947, erosion has washed away at least 800 feet of Dillingham’s coastline. And it’s getting worse.

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In her small backyard in Anaktuvuk Pass, Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson opens the hatch to a wooden box. Inside, a flurry of teenage chicks look up in surprise. Hopson eats the eggs and meat and uses the chicken poop as fertilizer for her garden. She says growing food locally just makes sense in a place where […]

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The Alaska National Guard hosted the annual Veterans Day ceremony at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on Nov. 11, 2019.

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Sea otters are rapidly recolonizing Southeast Alaska, breeding challenges for commercial fishermen in the region.

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In a lecture at the Sealaska Heritage Institute, Walter Echo-Hawk laid out the factors leading to the Supreme Court’s 1955 Tee-Hit-Ton Tlingit land rights decision.

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Huna Totem Corp. brought a Las Vegas rock and roll show to Juneau last month, and Alaska left quite an impression on one of the performers. Rock and country singer Johnny Solinger said he’s got some unfinished charity work to do up here. He wants to auction off a guitar he and other rock stars have signed […]

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The project, expected to open in January 2020, will shelter up to 12 women from Hooper Bay and the surrounding region.

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After a decade of heavy erosion, a lake in the Bristol Bay village of Port Heiden finally breached, sending water gushing into the bay.

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Observer fees are going up for Alaska fishermen and processors. In Kodiak, fishermen aren’t too worried about the modest increase, but some would like to see improvements made to the decades-old program.

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Meanwhile, the Petersburg Borough Assembly is considering an ordinance that could lower property tax bills for low-income housing units.

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Last month, Sitka Tribe announced that the park service wasn’t renewing the contract and tribal tour leaders may not return to Sitka National Historical Park next year.

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As climate change disrupts the migration of animals, and the frozen rivers and sea ice hunters travel on becomes less reliable, Alaskans say sharing information is increasingly important.

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