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Jul 21 2018

Loxie Loring walks with a group of marchers to remember her daughter, Ashley Loring, who went missing from the Blackfeet Reservation more than a year ago. (Photo by Nate Hegyi/Yellowstone Public Radio)

Doctoral student compiles database of indigenous women who’ve gone missing

By Nate Hegyi, Yellowstone Public Radio | Nation & World, NPR News, Public Safety, Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence

A Southern Cheyenne woman found no solid data on the many indigenous women in the U.S. and Canada who have gone missing or been killed under suspicious circumstances. So she compiled it herself.

By Nate Hegyi, Yellowstone Public Radio | July 21, 2018 8:20 pm

Jul 18 2018

Alaska officials want medical providers to pay back millions in Medicaid payments

By Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News | 2 Alaska, Health, State Government

“This was a mistake on our part,” said Jon Sherwood, deputy commissioner for Medicaid and health care policy at the department.

By Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News | July 18, 2018 6:44 pm

Jul 15 2018

Molly Kelly and her family collect spruce tips every spring in Gustavus. The commercial harvest brings an economic boost to the town. (Photo by Annie Bartholomew/KTOO)

How Gustavus’ spruce tips get into Juneau’s ice cream and booze

By Annie Bartholomew | Business, Community, Food, Juneau, Outdoors, Southeast

Each spring, about 50 pickers young and old get paid a few bucks a pound to collect spruce tips during a short harvest window in small town Gustavus.

By Annie Bartholomew | July 15, 2018 8:30 am

Jul 13 2018

Cucumber flowers fade and shrink for the night recently in a North Douglas greenhouse.

Gardentalk — Trim a little now for a bigger harvest later

By Matt Miller, KTOO | Food, Gardentalk, Juneau

Prune each tomato or cucumber plant’s extra side shoots so it can put more energy into growing more fruit. Better ventilation and airflow around the plants also limits mold and mildew infections.

By Matt Miller, KTOO | July 13, 2018 11:46 am

Jul 12 2018

Heidi Drygas, Commissioner, Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development presents a budget. overview to the Alaska House Finance Committee, Jan. 29, 2016. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)

State government receives grant for opioid-related job training

By Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO and Alaska Public Media | 2 Alaska, Alcohol & Substance Abuse, Economy, Education, Federal Government, State Government

Some Alaskans with opioid addictions who are leaving prisons or juvenile justice facilities will receive federally funded job training. A grant also will pay to increase the number of people trained to provide opioid treatment.

By Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO and Alaska Public Media | July 12, 2018 10:02 pm

Jul 11 2018

Kikkan Randall grew up in Anchorage and helped earn the first gold medal ever for the women’s cross-country ski team. (Photo by Emily Russell/Alaska Public Media)

Alaskan skier Kikkan Randall reveals breast cancer diagnosis

By Emily Russell, Alaska Public Media | Health, Southcentral, Sports

Alaskan skier and Olympic gold medalist Kikkan Randall has cancer, she said in an announcement on Instagram Wednesday morning. “The color pink has taken on a new chapter in my life,” Randall said in her post on social media.

By Emily Russell, Alaska Public Media | July 11, 2018 10:36 am

Jul 10 2018

Ketchikan school board votes to investigate district’s actions in Edwards’ case

By Leila Kheiry, KRBD-Ketchikan | Education, Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence, Southeast

The Ketchikan School District is going to hire an independent investigator to look into the district’s actions regarding former teacher Doug Edwards, who faces charges that he sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl at the high school, as well as other locations.

By Leila Kheiry, KRBD-Ketchikan | July 10, 2018 2:02 pm

Jul 09 2018

The Trump administration is halting billions of dollars in payments required under the ACA, citing a district court decision in New Mexico from earlier this year. Insurers say, the timing of the decision could mean higher premiums for millions of individuals and small businesses next year. (Photo by Nathan Griffith/Getty Images)

Trump Administration freezes payments required by Affordable Care Act

By Maggie Penman, NPR | Federal Government, Health, Nation & World, NPR News

Citing a February ruling from a district court in New Mexico, the administration said it will halt risk adjustment payments required by the ACA. Insurers say the move will increase premiums.

By Maggie Penman, NPR | July 9, 2018 7:02 am

Jul 08 2018

President Donald Trump speaks Feb. 24 at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in National Harbor, Maryland. (Photo by

Trump administration takes another swipe at ‘Obamacare’

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press | Federal Government, Health, National News

The Trump administration is freezing payments under an “Obamacare” program that were intended to reduce insurers cherry picking healthier customers.

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press | July 8, 2018 11:53 am

Jul 06 2018

Sockeye swim upstream in Yakutat in 2014. A good “parent year” for sockeye in freshwater systems, Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist Nicole Zeiser says something “out of our control” killed sockeye in the ocean. (Photo by Nate Catterson/U.S. Forest Service)

Yakutat sockeye fishery blindsided by historic low return

By Robert Woolsey, KCAW-Sitka | Fisheries, Food, Oceans, Southeast, Subsistence, Wildlife

Commercial sockeye fishing in Yakutat has been closed due to historic low returns, leaving set-netters in a bind until coho and chum season later in the summer. Unlike other salmon fisheries around the Southeast, biologists never saw this coming.

By Robert Woolsey, KCAW-Sitka | July 6, 2018 7:24 am

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Doctoral student compiles database of indigenous women who’ve gone missing

Alaska officials want medical providers to pay back millions in Medicaid payments

How Gustavus’ spruce tips get into Juneau’s ice cream and booze

Gardentalk — Trim a little now for a bigger harvest later

State government receives grant for opioid-related job training

Alaskan skier Kikkan Randall reveals breast cancer diagnosis

Ketchikan school board votes to investigate district’s actions in Edwards’ case

Trump Administration freezes payments required by Affordable Care Act

Trump administration takes another swipe at ‘Obamacare’

Yakutat sockeye fishery blindsided by historic low return

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