The tribes selected for the pilot program include Ketchikan Indian Community, the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, King Island Native Community, Knik Tribe and Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope.
Southeast
After botched order, a Haines grocer is swimming in milk
The store owner says now would be a good time for customers to make pudding.
Without action from legislature, Sitka’s schools could lose 15 teaching positions next year
Alaska is one of the few states that doesn’t appropriate money for education until after most districts have prepared their budgets for next year.
State lawmakers call on federal government to intervene in Canadian mining upriver of Alaska
After meeting with two British Columbia officials, legislators from Southeast Alaska announced they were calling on the U.S. to intervene.
ACLU sues Alaska prison system over forced medication policy
Corrections policy is supposed to limit involuntary medication to emergency, last-resort situations when there is imminent danger.
Haines falconer trains bird of his dreams
Benassi hopes to hunt with Mirum for a few years and then release her. He says maybe she will return to Nome, where she was born.
On appeal, state wins right to challenge subsistence hunting decision for Kake
The state challenged the Federal Subsistence Board’s authority to open an emergency hunt aimed at helping people in Kake get food in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ketchikan’s own Tallie Medel describes ‘surreal’ Oscar night after co-starring in best picture winner
Medel co-starred in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” which took home seven Oscars.
Winter weather returns to Southeast Alaska after a prolonged dry spell
Juneau has enjoyed more than a week of sunny skies, but the forecast predicts that that will come to an end as several low pressure fronts coming in off the Gulf of Alaska dump a mix of snow and rain across Southeast.
Seaweed farming inspires high hopes in Alaska for economic and environmental benefits
It is seen as a bright spot in a troubled coastal economy, but seaweed cultivation must overcome many obstacles before it can become big business in the state.