The Southeast Alaska Landless Corporation is crafting a bill that would divide 115,000 acres between five communities.
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Wrangell aims to put itself on the (virtual) map
Wrangell’s local government recently Googled itself — and it didn’t like what it saw. Now the city is working with a contractor to brush up its online image.
Across Alaska, homeless shelters and services are bracing for reduced funding
With a capital budget passed, the Alaska Housing Finance Corp. said it will dole out checks to charities that have been trying to keep Alaskans off the streets. But those checks will only go so far.
Only 2% of Alaska cruise passengers will visit Wrangell in 2019. And the town is fine with that.
The small southeast town of Wrangell gets just a sliver of the 1.3 million cruise ship tourists who visit Alaska this summer. Local tour operators say that’s not a bad thing.
Dunleavy eliminates funding for low-income Senior Benefits Payment Program
Alaska’s low-income seniors stand to lose cash assistance from the state. More than a third of seniors on the program live in Anchorage. But U.S. census data suggests the communities most affected per capita are in rural Alaska.
With 12 gray whale deaths in Alaska waters, biologists race to find the cause
Biologists in Southeast Alaska are racing to examine a wave of whale carcasses to try and find what’s killing gray whales up and down the Pacific Coast. Nearly 170 have been reported triggering NOAA Fisheries to launch an investigation.