Alaska State News

More than a dozen protests broke out statewide as President Trump and Russian President Putin met on Anchorage’s military base.

Ultimately, the alphabet soup of organizations and high-level officials that did participate had positive things to say about HUD Secretary Scott Turner's Aug. 13 visit. But with the media barred, few details have been made public.

Public opinion was largely opposed to the show, fearing it would showcase Bethel’s most vulnerable community members.

According to the state’s Aug. 2 disaster declaration, the loss of the building has disrupted the community’s ability to maintain basic public safety services and emergency response.

A live policing TV show is interested in featuring Bethel’s police department. This week, the Bethel City Council will vote about moving forward with the production.

The Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta lost one of its most memorable musical voices this summer with the passing of Bobby Gregory. The man who blended Yup’ik culture with rock ‘n’ roll and drew comparisons to guitar legends of the past lives on in song.

It’s a bit of a mystery where some birds go when they leave Alaska for the winter. A recent tracking project on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta sought to shed light on birds’ worldwide winter homes.

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

In the past decade, Bethel has increasingly relied on a policing system where officers work for two weeks, then take two weeks off. This lets some officers commute from thousands of miles away. And while the system helps with staffing, some victims of crime see it as the root of a problem.

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.