As public media is threatened after cuts from the Trump administration, Indigenous radio also faces threats to how it preserves and grows language.

Local election season is underway, as candidate filing periods have opened in many municipalities in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.

The sudden withholding of federal funds poses an existential threat to projects that have been in the works for years in communities across the U.S.

The short and straightforward report published in the journal Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research (AAAR) seeks to sum up a long-term, complex issue.

The vote was the second successful veto override after lawmakers convened Saturday for a special session called by Dunleavy.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funnels federal money to public media stations, says it's winding down operations after President Trump signed a law rescinding all funding.

Lawmakers only budgeted $40 million of the nearly $800 million that districts say is needed to fix and maintain schools to keep them safe and operating. Gov. Mike Dunleavy then vetoed more than a third of that.

On Monday, July 28, the governor called for legislators to address what he called “Alaska’s chronic education outcome crisis,” and to reconsider his executive order they had previously voted down, creating a new Alaska Department of Agriculture that he said would strengthen food security in Alaska.

The administration says the cut, which is in its budget proposal for the federal fiscal year that begins in October, is part of an effort to curtail what they call taxpayer waste and to reduce the federal role in local economic development.

The filing deadline for the 2026 elections is still nearly a year away, but Democrats in Alaska and the lower 48 are anxiously awaiting a decision about which office Peltola will run for.