The Juneau School District is no longer requiring students to quarantine at home after being exposed to someone who tests positive for COVID-19. Instead, families now have the option to use antigen tests before sending their kids out the door.
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Forest Service proposes restoring young-growth stands in central Southeast Alaska
Eventually, the forests evolve into old growth with a healthy ecosystem that is better for wildlife. But it takes a very, very long time.
Ketchikan school buses delayed as drivers quarantine and isolate for COVID
Five of Ketchikan’s school bus drivers were either in quarantine or positive for COVID-19.
The Biden administration sold oil and gas leases days after the climate summit
Eighty million acres of the Gulf of Mexico — an area twice the size of Florida — was put on the auction block on Wednesday.
Amid calls to cut production, Sen. Sullivan casts natural gas as climate solution
In the climate debate, natural gas is cast as both hero and villain. For protestors at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, producing and burning natural gas is unequivocally bad, a danger to the planet. “We cannot have any fossil fuel development if we are to have a fighting chance of staying below 1.5 degrees,”…
Kenaitze Tribe’s craft classes help elders socialize and learn new skills
Helen Dick, a Dena’ina elder, learned to make birch bark baskets from her grandmother. Now, she’s teaching others to make them, too.