A Petersburg flavored-salt startup and a Sitka poultry and livestock entrepreneur won this year’s Path to Prosperity contest.
Southeast
Aging Southeast: Seniors find purpose, friendship at The Bridge
For seniors in Southeast, health care and housing options are limited. But a couple of adult day programs are offering relief for care providers, families and friends. They’re often a stop-gap solution until space opens up in a home.
Haines residents learn how to ski no matter their circumstances
The Learn to Adapt program includes sit-skiing and assisted instruction for people with physical and cognitive disabilities, seniors and kids.
Aging Southeast: Region’s senior population growing quickly
About 9,200 Southeast Alaskans are 65 and older. That’s almost a one-third increase over five years ago. It puts Southeast’s average age at about five years higher than Alaska as a whole.
Aging Southeast: Finding a home in assisted living, if there’s space
Due to a shortage of assisted living homes, some of Southeast Alaska’s aging residents can’t stay in their home communities.
‘Kill the Indian, Save the Man’ challenges artistic boundaries in Alaska
“Kill the Indian, Save the Man” is one of three exhibits opening at the Anchorage Museum that together, explore what modern art means today in Alaska.
Bon voyage, Susitna
“Scrap it,” said Matanuska-Susitna Borough Assemblyman Steve Colligan. “We would be better off spending $500,000 to send it to the scrapyard.”
Bumps likely in the long road to a new Tongass plan?
The transition started early in the Obama administration. There could be at least three more presidents before it becomes a full reality.
Petersburg police arrest escaped inmate
Petersburg Police have apprehended an inmate who escaped from the Petersburg jail Friday morning.
Scientists find PSP, other toxins in most marine mammal species
For the first time, scientists have documented the prevalence of two biotoxins in Alaska’s marine mammal population above the Arctic Circle.