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Sealaska Heritage Institute recently published the “Beginning Tlingit Workbook.” It is part of the ongoing effort to revitalize Tlingit language.

On a recent afternoon, seven people are using colorful paints, feathers, strings and beads to decorate masks inside Access Alaska, a support center for people with disabilities.

A 19-year-old U.S. soldier, Pfc. Hansen B. Kirkpatrick, has been killed in an attack in Helmand province while taking part in counter-terror operations. Two other service members were injured.

The private company that controls more than half Skagway’s port wants a 20-year lease extension in order to make way for pressing waterfront improvements.

Tension between Shee Atiká, a Native village corporation, and its shareholders has reached a boiling point.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the test of the long-range missile “represents a new escalation of the threat to the United States, our allies and partners, the region, and the world.”

Alaska’s Energy Desk reporter Rashah McChesney took these photographs while participating in the Independence Day parade on Tuesday, July 4, 2017, in Juneau, Alaska.

A bronze statue Secretary of State William Seward has been installed in front of the Alaska Capitol. The 19th century U.S. statesman engineered the 1867 purchase of Alaska from Russia.

Parker was arrested this afternoon for 2nd-degree burglary when officers found him inside a home near James Boulevard.

National environmental groups fought hard to stop the pipeline. Ultimately they failed.

Both of the city’s clerk quit two days after a newly installed mayor fired one of the city’s two librarians. Yet nobody’s willing to say what’s behind the turmoil at city hall.

A recent aerial survey of the eastern Bering Sea suggests the Norton Sound beluga whale population is abundant in number.

GoPro’s video of the day features Juneau bald eagle stealing camera in 2015.

A caller told the Coast Guard he woke up and found the boat aground with his father no longer piloting the vessel.

Terns are having a difficult year, said Robin Corcoran, a bird biologist for Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge. Some of the terns have been noncommittal and aren’t nesting yet, she said. When they do breed, she said crows, red foxes, magpies and brown bears are some of the predators that snack on their eggs.

Dogs and their two-legged friends won’t be able to compete in the annual Super Dog Frisbee contest in Douglas this year on the Fourth of July. The tradition has special meaning for a black lab named Butch and his handlers, who placed in the last two.

Bailey Barco led a rescue of five crew members from the wrecked, three-masted schooner Jennie Hall in December 1900. The Coast Guard’s namesake vessel is bigger, can patrol longer than older, Island-class cutters.

People are dumping corpses in the high desert of western Colorado. But those unloading bodies aren’t criminal masterminds. They’re scientists. And out here, the usual rules of human decay don’t apply.

The current estimate for the combined summer and fall harvest is 1.68 million pounds — the lowest estimate early since Fish and Game implemented a management plan in 2000.

The prizes will come in the form of research and development time in the center’s Power Systems Integration Lab.