Emily Schwing
News ReporterEmily has covered land and wildlife management, wildfire and local government extensively in Alaska since 2006. She has worked all over the state, from the Chukchi Sea Coast to the Wrangell Narrows and from the Canadian Border to the Seward Peninsula.
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Merna Lomack Wharton takes a conservative approach with her signature touches as she pieces together regalia based on her great-grandmother’s design.
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‘Behind every catch you have a storyline': Food security is front and center in Cup’ik artist’s workRyan Bukowski’s uniquely carved and scrimshawed walrus tusks highlight his values, which center on hunting, fishing, and traditional ways.
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The parties usually celebrate a first catch, but one Mertarvik woman decided all of her children’s and grandchildren’s recent achievements were reason enough
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Many districts face a hiring and retention crisis, and the teachers who do make the trip to Alaska are finding lots of success.
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Human poop has been backing up into the building for at least two months, but the Tribal Council, which owns the building, had no idea how bad things were until last week.
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For the second year in a row, a group of Alaska Native mothers from the village of Newtok reported on deteriorating conditions in their community at the annual Arctic Encounter Symposium.
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Dignitaries, high-ranking military officials and Indigenous leaders from across the Arctic are participating in the largest annual Arctic policy-focused gathering in the United States.
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National Guard personnel jumped from a search and rescue aircraft to deliver blood to a Kotlik womanSevere weather prevented a civilian air ambulance from airlifting a woman to Bethel for medical treatment.
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Suits filed in In U.S. District Court allege the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services owes both organizations millions in unpaid costs.
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Newtok’s school building has no electricity and the problem can’t be fixed. Nine miles away in Mertarvik, where Newtok residents are working to relocate, the makeshift school also doesn’t have power.