White House Infrastructure Coordinator Mitch Landrieu was in Anchorage Tuesday to announce $100 million in broadband infrastructure grants to rural Alaska.
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Thousands attend first-ever Alaska filming of ‘Antiques Roadshow’
It was the first time the popular show visited Alaska — and fans claimed tickets quickly.
Budget items and policy changes recommended to help protect Indigenous women and girls
Recommended budget items included funding for more people in state law-enforcement agencies devoted to working on missing and murdered Indigenous cases.
‘A historic milestone’: Alaska formally recognizes Native tribes
Amid tears and laughter, Native leaders spoke at the signing ceremony about the legislation as a way to heal a painful past and create more opportunities for productive partnership with state government in the future.
How a 150-year-old Lingít robe is inspiring Alaska’s next generation of engineers
During ANSEP’s career exploration week, high school students helped create a 3D scan of the fragile Lingít robe.
‘Historic, empowering and healing’: Meet the Indigenous teen from Alaska on the cover of Vogue Mexico
Quannah Chasinghorse, a Han Gwich’in and Oglala Lakota fashion model and climate justice activist from Fairbanks, is the most recent face on the cover of Vogue Mexico.
Without tourists or in-person markets, 2020 has been hard on Alaska artists
With the pandemic canceling many in-person events, Alaka artists are trying to adapt by moving business online. Some say they’re making a fraction of their normal sales.
State elections division holds Alaska Native language summit
Alaska elections officials are struggling to put methods in place to translate the state’s election ballot into an array of diverse Alaska Native languages.
Smithsonian representatives wrap up information meetings for Native veterans memorial
In 2013, Congress authorized the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian to establish a national veterans memorial for Natives. The Alaska community consultations of that national effort wrapped last week.
16 Alaska Territorial Guard vets to be honored in Anchorage
Sixteen veterans of the Alaska Territorial Guard will be honored at a discharge ceremony today. Four of them are from Western Alaska.