Rural Alaska
The FCC spends hundreds of millions subsidizing internet for Alaska schools and libraries. Now it might cut the program.
Rural Alaska school and library officials say that E-Rate subsidies for broadband and other internet service remain critical to keeping their institutions connected.
2 die after being buried during septic system installation in Delta Junction, troopers say
The two died after the walls of a trench collapsed on them while they were working to install a septic system at a commercial property, Alaska State Troopers said.
NTSB: Pilot’s management of overweight plane in icy weather led to Bering Air crash that killed 10
“The tragedy of Flight 445 was not the result of a single failure, but a series of preventable breakdowns that eroded critical safety margins,” NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy said.
North Slope Borough police fatally shoot armed man in Utqiagvik, troopers say
An officer responding to a disturbance call Wednesday night shot and killed a 25-year-old man after he pointed a rifle at police, according to troopers.
Alaska tribes and conservation group sue to stop construction of King Cove road
The groups are trying to stop construction that Gov. Mike Dunleavy has said would soon begin.
On nearly deserted Adak Island, you pay to keep hundreds of buildings wired for internet
U.S. phone customers pay more than $340,000 a year for an Anchorage company to keep homes and buildings on the Alaska island wired for obsolete internet service. All but a few of them sit empty.
Too few caribou, too many bears: Bristol Bay subsistence hunters favor state bear cull to protect food
The state of Alaska’s cull of brown bears around the Mulchatna caribou herd north of Dillingham is not especially controversial among local subsistence hunters and advocates.
2 Southeast Alaska teens killed in dirt bike collision, troopers say
The incident occurred Tuesday near Hollis on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska State Troopers said.
Aviation experts say closures of Alaska flight service stations threaten safety
Seven flight service stations across Alaska have been closed after the Federal Aviation Administration placed stations’ employees on administrative leave last month, the agency said.
With federal permit in hand, Dunleavy administration says construction of King Cove Road imminent, but lawsuits loom
The U.S. Army Corps issued the first-ever permit for a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.
Big game hunting guides have mixed feelings on Alaska’s bear cull
Some of the hunters who know bears best think the helicopter gunning could be doing more harm than good.
Data center critics flood Alaska land managers with opposition to North Slope project
Hundreds of comments have been filed, with subject lines like “HELL NO! To ANY DATA CENTERS” and “NO AI.”
Alaska has killed 254 brown bears from the air. Will it save a caribou herd?
Scientists and advocates worry the state’s predator control gamble will fail but still expand aerial bear gunning across Alaska. Some proponents say the program is necessary because bears imperil rural residents’ subsistence foods.
NTSB: Pilot killed in crash near Cordova was flying on suspended certification
The California man flew out of Yakutat and into bad weather, federal investigators say.
5 tribes continue legal battle over controversial IPOP gold mining project near Nome
The mine, proposed by a Nevada company called IPOP LLC, would dredge roughly 2.7 miles along the Bonanza Channel’s 28-mile estuary bed.
Remains of Western Alaska man missing since Halong found near Kwigillingok
Three relatives died when the storm swept their house toward the Bering Sea. One man is still missing.
Nome man faces dozens of charges in sexual abuse case
The indictment alleges that Ulric Jeffery Ulroan sexually abused or assaulted girls between 2009 and 2025 in Chevak, Mountain Village and Anchorage.
Photos of killed bears contradict Alaska officials’ past claims about Mulchatna predator program
Photographs taken by wildlife advocates and shared with the Daily News raise questions about the state’s accounts of its controversial bear-killing program.
Anaktuvuk Pass residents get long-sought permission to use ATVs to hunt in the Gates of the Arctic
Residents have been advocating for the change for decades.
Federal government appeals decision that blocked oil drilling in Alaska caribou protection area
The Interior Department asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to review a ruling that blocked oil and gas lease sales in part of the NPR-A near Teshekpuk Lake.
Court strikes down $100K H-1B visa fee, but Alaska schools still can’t count on international teachers
More than half of the districts in the state employ at least one teacher from overseas.
Land transfer to Alaska Native corporation preserves stretch of Nome River
A deal transferred 1,700 acres along the river from The Conservation Fund to the Sitnasuak Native Corp., the Nome-based village Native corporation.
Armed man shot and killed by Bethel police officers, troopers say
Police were responding to a domestic violence call when they encountered a 23-year-old man who brandished a shotgun, Alaska State Troopers said.
Yup’ik leader Robert Nick remembered for lifetime of service
Robert Nick was a man of the tundra — the place where he was raised, where he lived most of his life, and where he was laid to rest this week near his home village of Nunapitchuk.
Alaska health officials advance over 400 projects for Rural Health Transformation funding
The projects were selected from nearly 1,800 proposals that came from more than 800 organizations and companies.
Alaska’s board of fish restricted a commercial fleet to protect Western Alaska salmon. Then the AG stepped in.
Subsistence fishermen are fighting the attorney general’s decision to overturn the board’s action.
Not-quite-futile attempts to hear voices from the past
Sharing news of the land — especially during breakup, with geese arriving, ice moving and caribou crossing — is a lifelong tradition. Of course, radio technical difficulties are traditional too.
A new Arctic partnership emphasizes Indigenous-led research driven by community priorities
Arctic ACTION Workshop taps both Indigenous and Western knowledge to address flooding, erosion and permafrost thaw in eight Arctic coastal communities.
In rare move, judge sanctions OCS for removing foster teen’s baby from her care against court order
While public sanctions of entire agencies are highly unusual, this situation warranted sanctioning Alaska’s Office of Children’s Services, a Bethel judge said.
‘You’d be crying at the pump’: This Alaska village’s gas was $8.44 — before the Iran war
Gas and heating fuel prices in rural Alaska were already high. An impending spike from the Iran war could “wipe out” communities.