Alaska State News

The State of Alaska wants the United States Supreme Court to decide whether rural Alaskans – which includes many Alaska Native people – should maintain subsistence fishing preference in the waterways of federal lands.

A new tech trial on the Salmon-Aniak River involves camera imaging and eventually, AI software.

No injuries have been reported after schools in Kasigluk and the community of Quinhagak locked down in separate gun calls last week. Suspects in both cases have been charged with second-degree terroristic threatening.

James Hoelscher, a former VPSO from Hooper Bay and now director of the state's Village Public Safety Officer Operations Division, says his recent recognition by the Association of Village Council Presidents for public service is a reminder that the work growing the programs has just begun.

Residents of Alaska’s bush communities often have to go without some of their favorite foods and flavors found on the road system, but one community market in Aniak has been an exception to that.

After making do with makeshift classrooms as the Kuskowkim River encroached on their old school, Napakiak students are back to school under one new roof.

A newly updated learning space aims to grow the potential of a Bethel-based nursing education program.

On Aug. 22, the body of 72-year-old Samuel Shavings was discovered by beachcombers just outside of Nome, nearly 300 miles from where he was first reported missing.

For the first time in years, students in Napakiak are at school under the same roof, in a school building that’s safe from the encroaching erosion of the Kuskokwim River.

A young Alaska Native engineer with roots in Kongiganak has been appointed as a Youth Climate advisor to the United Nations.