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The Lower Kuskokwim School District is developing a plan to avert environmental disaster

A Recall Dunleavy organizer says the campaign isn’t slowing down after the veto reversals.

“Molly of Denali” is the first national children’s TV show to feature an Alaska Native lead. Some of the show’s creators came to Juneau and put on a vocal acting workshop to help local kids find their own voices.

The daughter of recently-deceased state Sen. Chris Birch, Tali Birch Kindred, is seeking to fill his seat in the Alaska Senate, according to documents she filed with state regulators Friday.

With a capital budget passed, the Alaska Housing Finance Corp. said it will dole out checks to charities that have been trying to keep Alaskans off the streets. But those checks will only go so far.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she supports a full exemption of the federal Roadless Rule for the Tongass National Forest.

Nonprofit leaders have said they’re open to working with the governor. But it’s unclear how the approach will work in practice.

In an interview with Alaska Public Media’s Casey Grove, CCHRC Director Jack Hébert talks about the center and its funding woes.

The new dates of this year’s Golden North Salmon Derby have been set: Aug. 23-25. An event organizer says the last time bad weather caused a postponement was its first year — in 1947.

A story of how technology and the currents of the Berring Strait connected two men in Russia and Alaska.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy hasn’t wavered from many of his positions since taking office. But that changed this week.

Amanda Ryder notified the city clerk’s office Wednesday that she was dropping out. That leaves four candidates vying for two seats on the board.

“Plans have been put in place that it’s hard to walk back from, because this was such a disruption,” said Tlingit and Haida Head Start director Amber Frommherz.

Nearly 50 years ago, Native corporations were created and thousands of acres of land were transferred to each one. However, Alaska Natives from five communities were excluded from the settlement. 

Alaska’s primary provider of real-time marine vessel tracking has lost 11% of its funding. That’s following a line item veto by Gov. Mike Dunleavy in the 2020 capital budget.

The tour company moved 240 dogs and 60,000 pounds of equipment from the Denver Glacier above Skagway to camp on the Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau, where they had to scout new, even higher altitude terrain.

An agreement between Gov. Mike Dunleavy and the University of Alaska Board of Regents will see a $25 million cut in funding for this budget year. The next two years would see cuts of $25 million and $20 million.

The restoration totals about $9 million and includes $6.8 million to Head Start and $1.2 million to early childhood grants.

A large infrastructure project last fall is the suspected cause of elevated copper and lead levels discovered at some locations in Bethel’s City Subdivision.