Half of the money that doesn’t go to dividends would pay for state education funding.
Alaska
Lingít aluminum canoe sculpture now a permanent fixture at Juneau’s Overstreet Park
The 20-foot-long sculpture was made by Lingít artist Robert Mills last year during the pandemic
Wrangell administration, tribe to survey site of former boarding school for Native children
A government boarding school for Native children in Wrangell was one of the first of its kind in Alaska. Now, there are plans to redevelop the site of the former Bureau of Indian Affairs facility that was open for 43 years.
Senators reintroduce bill that would grant land to Alaska Native communities in Southeast
The bill would grant just 23.040 acres of land that’s now national forest to each of the five new corporations.
Alaska health officials share recommendations for second holiday season with COVID-19
Dr. Anne Zink recommends over-the-counter COVID tests if someone in your holiday gathering is immunocompromised, or if there will be a large group of people in attendance.
Petersburg teen receives homecoming after nearly one year of cancer treatment
Joseph Tagaban first learned he had a rare form of cancer known as acute myeloid leukemia, or AML, last year.
Molly of Denali episodes getting translated and dubbed in the Gwich’in and Koyukon languages
The Molly of Denali project is just one effort of Doyon Foundation’s language revitalization program, which works to preserve the ancestral languages of the Doyon region.
Tule geese took the long way south from Alaska last year as fires ripped through the west
As the wildfires Outside got worse and worse, a team of wildlife biologists noticed tule geese were acting unusually.
State proposes an official end to TB screening in schools
The state considered axing the program as early as 2016, during the Walker administration.
Juneau’s solution to the national health worker shortage? Hire locals and pay to train them.
Alaska usually has some of the most stringent requirements in the country for aspiring CNAs, but it has cut requirements in half during the public health emergency.