ProPublica

For decades, the U.S. government has failed to test for chemicals and metals in fish. ProPublica and Oregon Public Broadcasting did, and what they found was alarming for tribes.

By the time the CDC specifically recommended the vaccine for pregnant people, in August 2021, the damage had been done.

The U.S. government promised Native tribes in the Pacific Northwest that they could keep fishing as they’d always done. But instead of preserving wild salmon, it propped up a failing system of hatcheries. Now, that system is falling apart.

“There doesn’t seem to be a high level of interest from the government in getting this right,” Nikki Dougherty White said.

It took Alaska State Troopers 110 days to catch one of three people accused of an ambush in Russian Mission on July 28. Neighbors said they slept with rifles under their beds and shotgun shells on the windowsill, ready for anything.

Alaska’s share of fatalities in such crashes has increased from 26% in the early 2000s to 42% since 2016.

For more than a decade, Teuber was the president of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium and one of the most powerful executives in Alaska.

How the world’s greatest public health organization was brought to its knees by a virus, the president and the capitulation of its own leaders, causing damage that could last much longer than the coronavirus.

A remote fishing region will soon be flooded with seasonal workers. The hospital is equipped for only four COVID-19 patients and its chief operating officer is out of a job after emailing a coronavirus conspiracy meme. Welcome to Dillingham, Alaska.

At least 1 in 3 Alaska villages has no local law enforcement. Sexual abuse runs rampant, public safety resources are scarce, and Gov. Mike Dunleavy wants to cut the budget.