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The other Alaska airlift: Volunteers save dogs from a flooded Alaska village, 1 tiny plane at a time
A nonprofit in rural Alaska is working to rescue dogs from Kipnuk, a village hit hard by Typhoon Halong. The closest pet shelters are 90 miles away in Bethel, which
For decades, state and federal officials have been warning about the kind of catastrophic damage wrought by the storm that hit Western Alaska over the weekend. But those predictions, along with hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding for mitigation efforts,
University of Alaska Fairbanks professor emeritus Jerry Lipka, who focused his research on Indigenous systems and mathematical developments, received AFN’s Denali Award, which recognizes contributions of a non-Native to the Alaska Native community.
One dead, dozens rescued and roughly 1,000 displaced in western Alaska communities hit by ex-typhoon
Emergency supplies began to arrive in communities Monday, as search and rescue efforts continued for two people unaccounted for in Kwigillingok.
Alaska is dealing with one of its biggest emergency responses in decades after the remnants of Typhoon Halong hit coastal villages
In July 1990, CBS viewers tuned in to a fish-out-of-water story set in a remote Alaskan village. But sharp-eyed viewers realized that the town featured in “Northern Exposure” was not real Alaska. For five years, the old mining town of Roslyn in ...
Just over 20 years ago, a KMAland native departed the Midwest in a stick-shift pick-up truck on a trek to Alaska, and now, she is the new mayor
TULUKSAK, Alaska — In December, as the temperature plunged to minus-40 degrees, Nastasia Wassilie waited. Wassilie, 61, a widow, had run out of wood and fuel oil, and she had no money to buy more. Nor was there much food in the house. Nearly three days ...