APU is on its way to becoming a Tribal University
SPONSORED: Anchorage’s private liberal arts university is working to return to its roots as an academic institution grounded in Alaska Native culture.
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Getting outdoors this winter? Don’t forget your helmet.
SPONSORED: Snow isn’t as soft as it looks - and Alaska health professionals say no matter how kids enjoy the outdoors, they in particular need to protect their brains.
Where do Alaska’s metals end up? Check your pocket.
SPONSORED: These days, the “precious gold of the hills and streams” is more likely to see the inside of a smartphone than a sluicebox.
Putting the ‘happy’ in the holidays for hospital patients
SPONSORED: This year, patients of all ages will spend the holidays away from home. Here’s how staff and volunteers at one Alaska hospital try to make their days a little more merry and bright -- and what you can do to help.
Looking for climate change’s big picture, rural Alaska communities gather to compare notes
SPONSORED: Extreme weather events, subsistence changes and water shortages are becoming increasingly common across Alaska, but no two communities experience the same impacts.
Pipes, plumbing, and public relations: The life of an Alaska water plant operator
SPONSORED: When the toilets stop flushing, the neighbors start calling. Meet the man who keeps things flowing in this St. Lawrence Island community.
Meet the Alaska Native student who helped start a Yup’ik language class — at Stanford University
SPONSORED: For Gage Hoffman, bringing Yup’ik to Stanford is a way to live his culture, even though he’s thousands of miles from home.
MAKING IT: A new vision for veterinary care in Alaska
SPONSORED: Dr. Sean and Dr. Sara McPeck are vets -- and they’re vets. Here’s how this couple tapped into their experience caring for military dogs in Afghanistan to build a first-of-its-kind comprehensive veterinary medical center in Palmer.
For this Alaska clan, pipeline safety is the family business
SPONSORED: Martin Parsons thought he’d be a commercial fisherman like his dad. Instead, he’s a leader in oil and gas safety — and his wife and son work alongside him, making it a family affair.
Listening, learning, doing no harm: The evolution of mental health care
SPONSORED: Severe mental illness used to mean a lifetime of hospitalization, but that’s not the case anymore. What changed?
Health concerns surrounded vaping long before recent deaths
SPONSORED: Advertised as a healthier alternative to smoking and popular with young people, e-cigarettes were a cause of worry for health professionals even before they were associated with an outbreak of respiratory illness.
Around Alaska, there’s a new approach to suicide prevention: Think locally
SPONSORED: From village clinicians to a former NBA player, organizers are finding success with homegrown approaches to preventing suicide deaths.
Bringing babies in need home with NEST
SPONSORED: Alaska’s only dedicated neonatal treatment program works to keep families affected by substance abuse together.
A pain clinic without opioids? Believe it.
SPONSORED: With a focus on holistic healing, the clinic at Alaska Native Medical Center is helping its patients overcome chronic pain.
MAKING IT: This Alaska artist’s career has been a series of leaps of faith
SPONSORED: From ceramics to shoes to painted taxidermy, Romney Dodd isn’t afraid to take chances with her art when she knows her fellow Alaskans are standing behind her.
The journey toward a healthier you starts at HealthU
SPONSORED: A new event in Anchorage brings fun to health and wellness
Colon cancer in Alaska: Common and completely preventable
SPONSORED: This researcher found that switching to a high-fiber diet armed patients’ bodies with cancer-crushing bacteria. Now he’s seeking volunteers for a study that aims to put an end to colorectal cancer’s devastating effect on Alaska Native people.
The healing power of community: NYO coach leads the way in reviving healthy cultural traditions in Southeast Alaska
SPONSORED: Juneau’s Kyle Worl wants his teenage athletes to think of Native Youth Olympics as more than “just a hobby.”
The science of good bud
SPONSORED: Cannabis is more than just THC. We talked to Alaska scientists to learn more about what’s going on with the plant -- and in your body -- when you partake.
Living with FASD: ‘I’m going to have this for the rest of my life’
SPONSORED: Meet a young Alaska professional who says when it comes to her FASD diagnosis, knowledge is power.