President Donald Trump faces the challenge of convincing Republican senators, global investors, voters and even Elon Musk that he won’t bury the federal government in debt with his …
Alaska school districts are ramping up international hiring. For some, that means sending their own recruiters to the Philippines. In Part 2 of this five part audio series, Mabuhay sa Alaska, KMXT’s Brian Venua reports that the process can be pretty complicated, and it’s only getting more stressful. Julieth Tapado was one of hundreds of […]
The Trump administration is sending three Cabinet members to Alaska this week as it pursues oil drilling in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and reinvigorating a natural gas project …
A Kodiak fisher has been sentenced to spend a year in jail for illegally shipping thousands of pounds of tanner crab, much of it infected with a parasitic disease, out of Alaska to Washington state, federal officials said. The fisherman, Corey Potter, was also sentenced to two years’ supervised release following his jail term, during […]
PALMER — A federally funded residential job training center in Palmer must close completely by the end of June and begin sending students home next week under an “operations pause” ordered this week by the U.S. Department of Labor. The Don Young Alaska Job Corps Center in Palmer is one of more than 100 no-cost […]
Two weeks ago, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced a hiring freeze for most state agencies, paused new state regulations, and restricted state workers’ travel. The governor’s administrative order arrived amid growing concerns about state spending, and much of it is similar to orders issued during the COVID-19 pandemic emergency and the oil price shock of […]
Alaska schools are hiring teachers from the Philippines amid a massive national shortage. It’s the latest wave of immigrants from Southeast Asia to come to the state. This is part one of a five part audio series, Mabuhay sa Alaska, by KMXT and breaks down how and why those teachers are here, as well as […]
After Alaska’s U.S. Rep. Nick Begich cast a vote to advance a budget reconciliation package that would be catastrophic for Alaska, we are counting on our senators to step up. With a narrow balance of power in the U.S. Senate, if U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan has the courage to work with Sen. Lisa Murkowski, he […]
Alaska’s rates for childhood vaccinations are well below the national average, and the percentage of kindergarteners who had received all recommended vaccines was the lowest last year since at least 2017, according to a new report from the state Department of Health. Only 54% of kindergarteners in the state had received all of their recommended […]
The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed this week is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world. In Switzerland, the mountainside gave way …
Colton George felt sick. The 9-year-old Indiana boy told his parents his stomach hurt. He kept running to the bathroom and felt too ill to finish a basketball game. Days later, he lay in a hospital bed, fighting for his life. He had eaten tainted salad, according to a lawsuit against the lettuce grower filed […]
An Alaska man escaped unscathed after being trapped by a 700-pound boulder for three hours during a hike in a remote area last weekend. Kell Morris’ wife held his head above water to prevent him …
This story was produced as part of the Pulitzer Center’s StoryReach U.S. Fellowship and the Public Media Accountability Initiative, which supports investigative reporting at local media outlets around the country. It was reported and edited by Northern Journaland APM Reports, with support from Alaska Public Media. For decades, an economic catastrophe has been unfolding in […]
A federal magistrate judge has ruled that the state of Alaska did not violate the U.S. Constitution when it acted to limit intoxicating hemp products in 2023. In an order published May 23, Magistrate Judge Kyle Reardon granted summary judgment in favor of the state and against the Alaska Industrial Hemp Association, which sued two […]
Officials say that nearly a year after a search was suspended for a family of four missing after the boat they were on capsized in waters off Alaska, the vessel along with human remains have been …
Alaska Airlines has stopped rolling out the red carpet for the opening of Alaska’s salmon season. The airline has paused a 15-year-old program that celebrates the Copper River salmon run, one of Alaska’s earliest commercial salmon fisheries, the company confirmed by email. For more than a decade, Alaska Airlines observed the unofficial opening of Alaska’s […]
To help pull the struggling Alaska seafood industry out of its tailspin, state lawmakers passed some bills aimed at lightening the financial load on harvesters and advanced others that are intended to help businesses and fishery-dependent municipalities. The bills stemmed from recommendations made by the Joint Legislative Task Force Evaluating Alaska’s Seafood Industry, which was […]
When wood thrushes arrive in northern Mississippi on their spring migration and begin to serenade my neighborhood with their ethereal, harmonized song, it’s one of the great joys of the season. It’s also a minor miracle. These small creatures have just flown more than 1,850 miles (3,000 kilometers), all the way from Central America. Other […]
The board in charge of the University of Alaska could grow by one member, if a proposal passed by the Alaska House of Representatives is approved by the state Senate and Gov. Mike Dunleavy next year. House Bill 10, from Rep. Ashley Carrick, D-Fairbanks, would add a UA faculty member to the university’s board of […]
This story was originally reported by Jessica Kutz of The 19th. Meet Jessica and read more of her reporting on gender, politics and policy. The Trump administration wants to eliminate the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), a little-known piece of the social safety net that helps low-income people pay their utility bills. Congress […]