Storybooks and radio connect Homer children isolated by coronavirus
The town’s public library got creative when it had to close during the pandemic, partnering with a radio station to bring a popular story hour to preschoolers stuck at home.
Southeast Alaska Native group sues Neiman Marcus over ‘Ravenstail’ coat design
Sealaska Heritage Institute says the company violated copyright and American Indian arts protection laws in selling a knit coat with a design borrowed from indigenous culture.
‘Yukon Fox’ Emmitt Peters Sr., the third Iditarod champion, dies at 79
Emmitt Peters Sr., an Alaska Native who won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race as a rookie in 1975, has died at age 79 in his home village of Ruby.
Alaska officials to residents: Don’t feed moose, even if they look skinny
Reports of intentional and unintentional feedings have come from Anchorage and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.
Tired of ‘Into the Wild’ rescues, Healy locals want bus removed
Instead of building a bridge, the Denali Borough wants the state to remove the bus, which has become a destination for travelers seeking to retrace the steps of Christopher McCandless.
Build a bridge? Move the bus? ‘Into the Wild’ still lures the unprepared into the Alaska wilderness
The husband of a woman who died after visiting the old bus in which wanderer Christopher McCandless’ body was found is proposing a footbridge over the raging Teklanika River.
Coast Guardsman headed to court martial over killing of fellow seaman in Dutch Harbor
Military prosecutors allege that 21-year-old Ethan Tucker beat Ethan Kelch, 19, and left him in frigid water, where he drowned.
Family files wrongful-death lawsuit over fatal Fairbanks police shooting in 2017
The lawsuit says Cody Eyre was intoxicated and suicidal and police should have used non-lethal options, such as calling in mental health professionals, to diffuse the situation.
Failing permafrost cellars signal change in Alaska whaling towns
A growing number of Arctic underground cellars are being rendered unreliable as global warming and other modern factors force changes to an ancient way of life.
Seward seeks upgrades for antiquated flood-control system
Every fall, heavy storms test Seward’s antiquated flood-control system, leading to fears of a major disaster should it finally fail after nearly eight decades of diverting a fast-moving creek away from its historical route through town.