When the state’s health department website was breached earlier this year, cyberattackers had access to the private health information of Alaskans,
There’s no title for the screenplay yet, but now X̱’unei Lance Twitchell has a fellowship from the Rasmuson Foundation to realize a longtime dream, to bring a true story to life about how Native boarding schools systematically tried to kill indigenous languages,
A Belgian woman is trying to set a record for being the youngest ever to fly solo around the world. The airport in Juneau will be her first stopover in the state,
A coalition of Southeast tribes and the region’s largest Native corporation are creating an endowment designed to support indigenous-led conservation and economic development,
As the spread of the delta variant continues unabated in much of the U.S., public health leaders have approved healthcare rationing in Idaho and parts of Alaska and Montana,
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is moving the headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management back to the nation’s capital after two years in Colorado.
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Rasmuson fellow will use award for a film script, in Lingít, about dark history of Native boarding school
Twitchell says this dark chapter in history has recently pushed into the mainstream consciousness, but he’s heard stories for years.
Juneau’s regional hospital opens its COVID wing as case counts rise
About a third of Bartlett Regional Hospital’s beds are occupied by patients with illnesses related to COVID infections. Six of its seven beds in its COVID wing were full on Friday morning.
Experts advising FDA vote against Pfizer COVID booster
Presentations generally showed the vaccine was still effective in protecting immunized people against severe illness, hospitalization and death in the U.S.
New Seacoast Trust endowment will support Indigenous-led conservation and development projects
Sealaska Corporation and The Nature Conservancy have set aside $10 and $7 million respectively in seed money to help support the fund.
Anchorage refugee assistance program gets ready for up to 100 people fleeing Afghanistan
Catholic Social Services CEO Lisa Aquino says the refugee program’s staff and volunteers will help with things like finding housing and employment, as well as learning English.