Here’s what residents should know to protect their children, pets, homes and vehicles from the ash that scientists say is ...

This year, the Iditarod saw both a historic anniversary and the marked impact of climate change. Writer Lale Arikoglu follows ...

Funding for Indian Health Service, the agency that provides Native Americans with medical care, is under threat.

In 2017, about a dozen students, faculty and staff at the University of Alaska Anchorage banded together with a shared goal to help students who struggled to meet their basic needs. Amanda Walch, a ...

But climate-friendly projects often cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, leading fishermen to seek U.S. Department ...

Industry leaders say the government failed to protect Thomas Cooper, 5, from dying in a hyperbaric chamber fire at the Oxford ...

NOME, Alaska — Along the remote western edge of ... “I stayed with an elder woman … and she took good care of us,” said Metcalf, 73, director of the Eskimo Walrus Commission.

This explainer looks at how Medicaid is funded jointly by the federal government and the states, the program’s spending, and ...

Thousands of probationary federal employees received termination notices. Many were doing crucial work at science-related agencies.

On January 7, 2017, GOP Rep. Bill Flores of Texas introduced H.R. 370 to repeal the Affordable Care Act—commonly known as ...

A few of her areas of focus include addiction and the opioid epidemic, food and health care insecurity ... She’s worked in Alaska Public Media’s newsroom since May 2023.