Alaska employers navigate whether to require COVID-19 vaccinations for employees
Different businesses and organizations are choosing different routes.
An old Anchorage hotel has been transformed into a school for Southwest Alaska students to take technical and college classes
The Lower Yukon School District is giving students from Hooper Bay to Russian Mission the opportunity to live in Anchorage through the Kusilvak Career Academy.
She got COVID-19, got vaccinated - and then got COVID again
Alaska health officials have received 177 reports of people testing positive for the virus after getting vaccinated. That’s less than 1% of Alaskans whose vaccinations are complete.
Democrats and Republicans stay quiet as lone legal challenge advances against Alaska’s new ranked-choice voting system
Maine’s system of ranked-choice voting encountered a flurry of lawsuits. Alaska’s has only one case against it.
“Send help now”: Two mushers describe the events that led to their rescue from the Kobuk 440 race trail
Jeff King feared freezing to death. Philip Hanke was out of food and bogged down in snow. Both pressed the SOS button in the season-ending sled dog race.
Anchorage family remembers 22-year-old who died after ski accident at Alyeska
Penelope Foudeas died March 24, three days after a fall while skiing.
A Denali glacier is speeding downhill, potentially hampering climbers and increasing flood risk
Muldrow Glacier on the north side of Denali is surging for the first time since the 1950s — moving 50 to 100 times faster than its usual pace, scientists say.
Updated results show no major changes in Anchorage mayor, school board and recall races
Saturday’s update showed Dave Bronson maintaining a lead over Forrest Dunbar in the election for Anchorage mayor, with the two headed for a runoff on May 11.
Some Alaska mayors worry about Dunleavy proposal to allow four-wheelers and snowmachines on roads
If approved, Alaska would have the nation’s first statewide street legal policy for four-wheelers and snowmachines.
Dunleavy and legislature press for restart of big-cruise voyages amid dwindling hope for the 2021 tourist season
Whether or not ships come, Gov. Mike Dunleavy said the state is planning a major marketing campaign to encourage tourists to visit Alaska by other means.
‘Runaway Train’ is a hidden gem in the history of movies filmed in Alaska
The most shocking bit of trivia about the 1986 train movie starring Jon Voight is that it began as an original script by the legendary Japanese auteur, Akira Kurosawa.
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Expanding your lexicon for names in nature
Columnist Christine Cunningham shares some of the highlights of her quest to improve her outdoors vocabulary.
Changing direction: How glacial retreat is pushing the Alsek River to follow a new route
The river that starts in Yukon Territory and reaches the ocean at Dry Bay may end up with a new outlet in federally protected Glacier Bay National Park.
Stacks of snow still remain in the Interior, but not everyone is chagrined
The lasting snowpack will be ideal for April fishing, snowmachining and trips into the backcountry.
Anchorage schools superintendent, former Gov. Sean Parnell are finalists in UAA chancellor search
The finalists consist of three Alaskans and five candidates from the Lower 48.
Federal regulators order Hilcorp to replace 7-mile pipeline that leaked natural gas into Cook Inlet
The company has a year to replace the subsea pipe, installed in 1965, the agency said in a 12-page order.
Longtime Alaska poet Tom Sexton returns to his mill town roots in a new collection
Book review: Recurring motifs include the Irish, Catholicism, food, baseball, poolhalls, rivers and bridges, and of course the mills that were the center of Lowell life for so many years.
Alaska Supreme Court backs Gov. Dunleavy in dispute with Legislature over appointments to state boards
Last year’s picks by the governor for boards and commissions did not lose their powers in December, the court ruled.
Multiple avalanches and continuing danger will keep Hatcher Pass Road closed through weekend
It’s the most extreme avalanche closure in the area in about 40 years, said an Alaska Department of Transportation official.
Two-week extension granted for studded tire use in Alaska
Depending on where they live, Alaskans have an extra 14 to 16 days to get their studded tires swapped out for summer ones.
You’re an Alaskan and you’ve been vaccinated. Now, what do you do with that card?
What if I lose it? Will I need it for travel?
First-grader wrote Old Navy asking for girls’ jeans to have real pockets. The letter went viral.
“I want my pants to have real pockets like my brother’s pants,” said Kamryn Gardner, 7.
The things migrants carried — and dropped — as they crossed the border
A toddler’s muddy shoe. An empty wallet. A pink hairbrush. A line of Scripture. These and other possessions litter the dirt path leading uphill from the Rio Grande.
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