Over the last 26 years, Penelope Gold has used the state’s correspondence school program to homeschool six of her seven children. Most have graduated, but her youngest daughter is in fifth grade. For all that time, Gold said she...
This story was originally published in Alaska Beacon.
Alaska’s Kobuk River, which flows out of the Brooks Range above the Arctic Circle, is among the most threatened rivers in the nation because of potential development of a 211-mile road that would...
Brown Carlson, a Lake Clark homesteader, arrived in the area in 1904 after he jumped ship into the frigid waters and swam away from his life as a Norwegian sailor.
The reports arrive as AIDEA seeks permission from the Alaska Legislature to borrow as much as $300 million for a variety of as-yet-unidentified mining projects.
The 850 heat pumps represent one for “every residence” in the villages of Ambler, Buckland, Deering, Kiana, Kivalina, Kobuk, Noatak, Noorvik, Selawik and Shungnak.
Big energy news for the Northwest Arctic Borough, while a new study adds to the pile of evidence suggesting that booming, hatchery-boosted pink salmon populations could be harming wild sockeye.
Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s threat to veto the Alaska Legislature’s education bill unless he gets a second bill filled with his priorities hasn’t exactly lit a fire under lawmakers. After the drag-out fight to pass the first bill, the...