Alena Naiden
Alaska Desk Reporter at KNBABased at KNBA in Anchorage, Alena Naiden is an Alaska Desk reporter who focuses on rural and Indigenous communities in the Arctic and around the state.
Before joining the Desk, Alena was a reporter at the Anchorage Daily News and Arctic Sounder for over three years, covering a wide range of issues affecting the North Slope and Northwest Arctic. Before that, she wrote for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.
Alena is from Russia and considers herself lucky to call Alaska home.
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The Department of Environmental Conservation said it has been unable to get close to the wreckage, due to worries that metal from Rig 26 might fall on response team members. -
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the review last week, calling the business development program “the oldest DEI program in the federal government.” -
Some fuel deliveries resumed last Friday, but the reserves remain low. -
The Alaska Native Medical Center brought the holiday to their primary care center for patients who couldn’t gather with family or in church. -
State officials announced this week that both the Porcupine and Central Arctic caribou herds have faltered. The data mirrors a broader trend for Arctic herds. -
Ownership and navigability of the river could have implications for mining and subsistence in the area. -
The American Geophysical Union conference brought together Earth and space scientists from more than a hundred countries, including researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. -
The workbook is just one example of efforts to revitalize the language that have been sweeping across northern Alaska. -
From Utqiaġvik to Petersburg, communities find unique ways to bring joy at the darkest time of the year. -
For the past 20 years, NOAA’s Arctic Report Card has documented changes in the region, which continues to warm faster than the rest of the globe.
