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Joseph Moses, left, and and Thomas Noatak attach a honey bucket to an ATV before traveling to the village landfill, Friday, Aug. 18, 2023, in Akiachak, Alaska. Joseph and Thomas collect and remove garbage and human waste from village streets each morning. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner) AKIACHAK, Alaska (AP) — Sanitation workers Thomas Noatak and Joseph…

The entrance to the Anchorage Correctional Complex is seen on Aug. 29, 2022. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) An Anchorage inmate died after two days in custody, the Alaska Department of Corrections reported Thursday. It is the seventh inmate death the department has reported this year. Tristan Andrews was housed at the Anchorage Correctional Complex…

An Alaska State Trooper K-9 Unit SUV (Joey Mendolia/Alaska Public Media) A teenager who went missing in North Pole last weekend has been found dead. According to an Alaska State Trooper online dispatch, 17-year-old Talen Luth-Ney’s body was located by a K-9 team Wednesday night in a gravel pit pond near where he was last…

A three-man research team spent three weeks exploring more than 100 miles of Yukon riverbanks this summer to find out more about how dinosaurs lived in the region during the Early Cretaceous. (Emily Schwing/KYUK) Over the course of three weeks, scientists recorded more than 90 sites where dinosaurs left their footprints along the middle section…

Pierre Jean Gonzalez is known for the Alexander Hamilton role in “Hamilton.” (Mizelle Mayo/Alaska Public Media) Alaska audiences have had to “wait for it” for years, but it’s finally here.  The Tony Award-winning musical “Hamilton” has made its way from Broadway to Anchorage recently, running shows at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts from…

A bus at the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association’s Head Start facility in Unalaska. (Sofia Stuart-Rasi/KUCB) Unalaska’s new Head Start facility opened to children Tuesday, following years of preparation. The federally-funded education program aims to prepare local students under age 5 for primary school, while also passing on Unangax traditions. Unalaska’s Head Start is run by…

Former Anchorage School District’s Superintendent Deena Bishop outside Alaska Public Media’s studio on Wednesday afternoon. September 6, 2023. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, and comments to news@alaskapublic.org. Follow Alaska Public Media on Facebook and on Twitter @AKPublicNews. And subscribe to the Alaska News Nightly podcast. Thursday on Alaska News…

Deena Bishop outside Alaska Public Media’s studio on Wednesday afternoon. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) This week marks one month for Deena Bishop in her role as Alaska education commissioner. Before Bishop, 53, was appointed by Gov. Mike Dunleavy, she spent more than three decades in education, including tenures as superintendent of the Mat-Su Borough and…

Members of the audience wave yellow signs in support of student representative Ben Kolendo during a Mat-Su school board meeting on Sept. 6, 2023. (Tim Rockey / Alaska Public Media) The Matanuska-Susitna school board voted Wednesday to remove most opportunities for its student representative to participate in board work. The board passed the changes to…

A polar bear walks along the edge of Kaktovik, the only village within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s coastal plain. (June 2018 file photo: Jeff Chen/Alaska Public Media) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, and comments to news@alaskapublic.org. Follow Alaska Public Media on Facebook and on Twitter @AKPublicNews. And subscribe to the Alaska News…

A house and condo buildings hang precariously over the Mendenhall River after their foundations were eroded away during record high water from a glacial outburst flood on Aug. 5, 2023. (Mikko Wilson/KTOO) One of the worst days of Molly Barnes’ life went viral. As the Mendenhall River carved the land out from under her condo…

This F-35 (left) was among the first to arrive at Eielson Air Force Base in 2020. (Sean Martin/354th Fighter Wing) Federal officials have selected a contractor to install and operate a small, self-contained nuclear power plant at Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks. Assistant Air Force Secretary Ravi Chaudhary announced the selection of a Silicon…

A sign on some portable toilets at an unofficial campground at a vacant lot along Anchorage’s Third Avenue, pictured here on June 27, 2023, asks its users not to use drugs inside. The city set up the portable toilets, hand sanitizing stations and some dumpsters here to reduce the campers’ impacts. (Jeremy Hsieh/Alaska Public Media)…

A sign on some portable toilets at an unofficial campground at a vacant lot along Anchorage’s Third Avenue, pictured here on June 27, 2023, asks its users not to use drugs inside. The city set up the portable toilets, hand sanitizing stations and some dumpsters here to reduce the campers’ impacts. (Jeremy Hsieh/Alaska Public Media)…

Tlingit and Haida President Chalyee Éesh Richard Peterson, Sealaska Heritage Institute President Kaaháni Rosita Worl, Lingít language professor X̱’unei Lance Twitchell and La Quen Náay Liz Medicine Crow on a panel about historic trauma on Aug. 30, 2023. (Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO) Southeast Alaska Native communities have worked for decades to undo the harms of colonialism. But…

U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge tours Kenaitze tribal buildings during an Aug. 30 visit to Kenai. (Riley Board/KDLL) U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge visited Kenai Wednesday to announce a major federal grant for local tribes. She appeared at the Kenaitze Indian Tribe’s year-old educational campus to announce…

Chris Colbert (center left) and Jenn Miller (center right) of Renewable Independent Power Producers prepare to cut the ribbon on the opening of the new solar farm located in Houston, Alaska on Tuesday. (Adam Nicely/Alaska Public Media) Alaska’s largest solar farm was unveiled on Tuesday in the city of Houston, about an hour north of…

A suspected bank robber, seen in a surveillance video, whom the FBI says is Etuale Ioane. (FBI photo) An Anchorage man accused of robbing the same credit union twice in two months has been arrested after his family turned him in, according to a charging document. Etuale Ioane, 20, faces two criminal counts of bank…

ConocoPhillips’ Willow project is in the northeast corner of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. (Map by USGS, Department of Interior) In documents filed Tuesday in Anchorage, international oil company ConocoPhillips said an ongoing federal court case is likely to make or break Alaska’s largest planned oil development in decades. If Alaska District Court Judge Sharon Gleason…

U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge discusses affordable housing plans during a roundtable at the Covenant House Alaska in Anchorage on Aug. 31, 2023. (May Lee/Alaska Public Media) U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge was in Anchorage on Thursday to learn from Alaskans about housing issues facing rural and urban…