Why former Permanent Fund Corp. director believes firing was ‘political retribution’
Angela Rodell gives a presentation on the permanent fund in January 2018 in Juneau, Alaska. (Photo...
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Ambler Metals says it’s nearly ready to apply for permit to mine in NW Alaska
Drilling at Trilogy Metals Inc.’s copper-rich Arctic Deposit in Alaska’s Ambler Mining District....
Volcanic eruption in Tonga leads to tsunami warning in Alaska
A NOAA satellite image of an eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano, located in the...
New Alaska smartphone feature allows for anonymous reporting of COVID exposure
Kenrick Mock, a University of Alaska Anchorage computer science professor, shows how to use the...
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LatestLeefisher Tukrook, charged with a first-degree murder, said voices urged him to kill Justin Labrado.
A Point Lay man fatally shot another resident on Sunday, charges say.
Facing headwinds and generating hope for the new year
Let’s face it, 2021 was another tough year. The pandemic, which we had all hoped would be in the rearview mirror by now, is still front and center. It’s taken too many lives of our fellow Americans and has greatly...
Lessons Alaska’s holiday storms can teach us
Across Alaska, 2021 ended and 2022 began with a fury. A post-Christmas storm system dumped rain and then a foot of snow on Fairbanks, then temperatures plunged to 40 below. Denali Park got nearly 30 inches of new snow in the...
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LatestA major winter snow and ice storm is battering the Southern U.S. and moving north
The storm system could leave more than a foot of snow and in excess of a quarter inch of ice in some areas, the National Weather Service warned.
The famed country music broadcaster Ralph Emery has died at age 88
Emery became known as the dean of country music broadcasters over more than a half-century in both radio and television. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2007.
Snail noodles go viral in China during the pandemic. But the dish is a bit … funky
The southern specialty — snail broth, pickled bamboo, slippery rice noodles — has taken off. “A lot of people were looking for crazy, ridiculous things to eat,” says food blogger Mei Shanshan.
Novak Djokovic has left Australia after losing his final appeal to avoid deportation
A court dismissed the No. 1-ranked tennis player’s challenge to cancel his visa. Djokovic, who hoped to play in the Australian Open despite being unvaccinated, said he was “extremely disappointed.”
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