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With state and federal grants, borough Mayor David Landis said the borough’s cost for the nearly $1 million project was about $50,000.

The Park Service says only about 4 percent of its employees are Alaska Native or American Indian, but 20 percent of the population is Alaska Native or American Indian.

What’s in a name? For some, it’s just a name. For others, it represents generations of family history.

It’s not certain the Permanent Fund bill will come up for a vote.

Some objected that teacher pay schedules won’t keep up with inflation and health care cost increases, and there’s worry over how the state’s fiscal policy will change in the near future.

Huna Totem Corp. CEO Larry Gaffaney will leave this fall after seven years on the job. He’ll be replaced by Russell Dick, current chairman of the corporation’s board of directors.

Tony Hopfinger, who headed the Alaska Dispatch News until last year, alleges publisher Alice Rogoff has failed to pay him what he’s owed.

Stephen Boyle, deputy fire chief for Kachemak Emergency Services, was arrested Thursday.

The state will likely open its own hunting period on non-federal lands in the same area to try and maintain the herd size.

Unalaska’s City Council wants to look into expanding tax breaks to encourage renovations that create new housing.

The 63-year-old Juneau victim was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.

More and more Alaska Natives are choosing to use their Native-language names on social media, at work and in their everyday lives.

Whether it’s annuals and fuschias or shrubs like lilacs and rhododendrons, trimming fading flowers will allow leaves to devote more food and energy to the plant to flower later this season.

As an openly gay man who doesn’t identify with any religion, you’d think Matt Magnusson would have a minefield of identity politics to navigate working for Catholic Community Service.

Walker said Permanent Fund dividends are at risk in 2020 if the state doesn’t make changes this year.

Skagway community protests use of herbicide by railroad.

Man dies after crashing into a Mendenhall Valley home.

A Juneau man was cited for failing to report running over and dragging a black bear for 2 miles.

Retreating sea ice and rising ship traffic have some worried the region could serve as the next stage for international conflict.

University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers are helping develop small hydropower systems that don’t require building a dam but instead use a turbine anchored into a river to harness the flow of water to generate electricity for remote communities located far off the grid.