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A fifth-grader with a swoop of dark hair over one eye stands on the pebbly beach at Wrangell’s City Park, looking into the camera. -
Southeast Native Radio aired for just 16 years, but its voices will live on in a new digital archiveHundreds of hours of audio from an unlikely historical source are now archived on the internet, and available for anyone to listen to.Southeast Native Radio was broadcast over KTOO in Juneau for 16 years, from 1985 to 2001. The volunteer-produced show played as current affairs at the time, but twenty-one years later it’s become a window into the lives of the people and events that shaped Native culture in the region over the last century.
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The federal government is suing the state of Alaska over its management of salmon fishing on the Kuskokwim River. -
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.
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Alaska is short on health care workers — especially nurses and nursing assistants. Experts say increasing our reliance on out-of-state workers is economically untenable. But one big roadblock to training a homegrown workforce is hiring enough nursing faculty at the state’s university.
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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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Maj. Gen. Brian Eifler says it’s a problem he and other top Army officials are thinking about and working on every day. He says there are some specific things about Alaska that factor in, but often it’s other issues in a soldier’s life that are exacerbated by being stationed in the north, in most cases far from home, that become contributing factors to depression and hopelessness.
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The company behind a controversial mining prospect near the headwaters of the Chilkat River has a new plan for handling its wastewater. Executives with Constantine Metal Resources and state regulators say the plan would contain any hazardous contaminants, but environmental groups are concerned the risk is too great.
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Senate Bill 174 “addresses an issue that many people endure in silence,” Sen. David Wilson, R-Wasilla, said on the floor when the bill passed the Senate March 30. Wilson is a bill sponsor along with Sen. Elvi Gray-Jackson, D-Anchorage.
