Wrangell High School students designed and painted two pairs of sneakers for an art competition that continue to receive national acclaim. The shoes already won at least $15,000 for the school’s art program – and have a chance to win more than triple that.
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In 2018, a Bristol Bay artist began to raise awareness of the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people. She sewed an enormous qaspeq and drew the faces of Alaska Native women who have gone missing or were murdered. That project has grown into an international call for action.
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The federal government is suing the state of Alaska over its management of salmon fishing on the Kuskokwim River.
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The state has reissued the certificate once, in 2019, and reaffirmed it twice, in 2020 and 2022, following challenges from ONC.
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A shortage of shotgun shells nationwide is complicating things for migratory bird hunters in Southwest Alaska, who are eager to get out after a long winter.
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A synthetic opiate called fentanyl is behind a surge of drug overdoses in Alaska. As a result, overdoses in the state have become so deadly that one of the tools used to fight them has changed.