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Ben Townsend/KNOMThe rising cost of food and other household goods compound in rural Alaska, where the shipping system that bypasses postal offices is seeing a rate hike. -
Gabby Salgado/KYUKYuut Elitnaurviat, the vocational center serving the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, is under new leadership after Executive Director Mike Hoffman recently retired. Yuut Elitnaiurviat says it could not be in better hands with his replacement – a household name across the region and the state.
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High-speed fiber-optic internet is live in Bethel. It’s part of a years-long tribal broadband project – a partnership between telecommunications provider GCI and Bethel Native Corporation. -
Better knowledge and mapping of existing infrastructure is leading to a new estimate of future thaw costs under varying climate scenarios. -
With oil prices low and likely to go lower, and uncertain federal revenue, senators say this year's budget is tight — and that next year's will be tighter. -
A program that has subsidized commercial aviation rural routes and is particularly significant in Alaska is a target for a more than 50% reduction in funding under President Donald Trump’s budget proposal. -
The milestone for the tribal-private partnership that has unspooled hundreds of miles of fiber optic cables along the seafloor, riverbeds, and tundra of the region comes at a time when little is certain about the future of rural broadband.
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How a billionaire’s bet on Donlin mine could inject new life into the huge, slow-moving gold projectA global mining giant is selling its 50% stake in Donlin Gold. One of the buyers is John Paulson, who made billions betting against the housing market before the 2008 financial crisis. -
In a list of potentially targeted agencies and programs, the state’s congressional delegation has voiced concerns over one unique to Alaska: Bypass Mail. -
The hydrokinetic turbine pilot project, scheduled to launch in June, is a partnership between the Native Village of Napaimute, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Oregon-based company BladeRunner Energy. -
For 56 communities across the region reliant on federal funds to support critical infrastructure and essential services, cuts at any level could have severe consequences. -
Across Alaska and the lower 48, eggs have become an expensive luxury, thanks to an outbreak of bird flu. On the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, the egg shortage tells the story of the region’s food supply, which relies heavily on goods imported from elsewhere.
