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Jeron Joseph’s "Sacred Ground" exhibit opens at the Anchorage Museum this week.

Applicants who have received denial letters by mail or email have 60 days to appeal the decision. In cases where documents are missing, applicants can either upload them to their FEMA application or include them with appeal letters.

Following a request from the state and the transfer of a surplus grader, crews were able to plow the road roughly 40 miles beyond its normal southernmost point to reach Tuntutuliak for the first time since 2020.

April 3 is also the cut-off for people affected by the October 2025 West Coast storms to apply for state and federal individual assistance, and for loans from the federal Small Business Administration.

In Eek, a basketball tournament brought back together coastal Y-K Delta teams that were displaced after ex-typhoon Halong.

How the Lower Kuskokwim School District and community members are keeping local basketball teams going, even far from home.

The tribal government in Kipnuk, one of the communities hardest hit by the October 2025 storm, is exploring sentiment and options for relocation to safer ground.

The April 3 deadline applies to individual assistance through FEMA, the state, and for federal Small Business Administration loans.

Repair efforts in Kwigillingok have been ongoing since Typhoon Halong hit in October. But relocation remains a long-term goal for the community.

On Feb. 9, the Alaska Senate voted 19-0 to extend a state of disaster until early March, retroactively extending a disaster declaration that expired Feb. 6.