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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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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
An annual test of Alaska’s tsunami warning system is scheduled for Wednesday, March 27 at about 10:20 a.m. It will broadcast over radio and television stations around the state. -
With no lights, students in Newtok and Mertarvik have had a much longer spring break than planned. -
The sentence follows a November jury trial and multiple convictions including first degree sexual assault. -
Even if it becomes law, a bipartisan school funding package isn’t enough to cover maintenance and upgrades rural public schools desperately need. -
The local school district has sought money from the state for over a decade without success. Now the school in Sleetmute is at risk of structural failure.
