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 gym is the first step toward rebuilding the Harold Kaveolook School, which burned down in 2020. -
The Backyard Buoys project helps Indigenous coastal communities in Alaska, as well as in the Pacific Northwest and Pacific Islands, use wave data to support maritime activities. -
A state forester shared tips on where and how to cut a Christmas tree in Southcentral Alaska, and how to make it last. -
State officials say there was no gap in the program, which subsidizes energy bills for thousands of Alaskans, many in rural and tribal communities. -
A tribal organization has been delivering subsistence foods to displaced families in their hotel rooms. -
The storm destroyed or severely damaged nearly 700 homes, killed one person and left two more missing. Here's where things stand in some communities hit by the mid-October storm. -
The Alaska Institute for Justice launched the resource early, to help people affected by the recent Western Alaska storm. -
The village has sued a federal agency over its canceled climate resilience grant and refutes claims that the money would have been wasted. -
The program subsidizes energy bills for about 50,000 Alaskans, many of whom live in rural and tribal communities. -
Many of the Western Alaskan residents displaced by Typhoon Halong also lost their subsistence harvests.
