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Gov. Dunleavy has yet to declare a state-level disaster to address Tuluksak’s water crisis. In doing so, he’s holding back up to $1 million in disaster relief funding for the village.

A federal judge on Monday denied requests by conservation groups that she block ConocoPhillips from starting construction work this winter on its massive oil discovery, called Willow.

The report also showed that the pilot had little Alaska flying experience, but it did not determine a probable cause for the crash that killed two.

Police Chief Justin Doll said he’s hopeful the department’s anti-violent crime initiatives are having a positive impact.

Joe Demantle Jr. was known to have a hand in just about everything in Tuluksak, from building structures, to giving rides to the airport. He died in January at 66 years old.

The Texas-based company has requested approval from the Alaska Department of Natural Resources to build an oil-gas combination well and gas-only well in Whiskey Gulch, three miles northeast of Anchor Point.

A large number of unfilled seats on the councils that manage Alaska's subsistence hunting and fishing has left advocates worried their voices won't be heard and confused about the process of filling those seats.

Rising temperatures are also forcing researchers to reconsider just how much rain a storm can drop.

Mistakes meant $2 million less for habitat restoration work on the Tongass National Forest, according to the internal audit by the US Forest Service.

KNOM interviewed eight sexual assault survivors as part of this series. A few themes emerged

Summer is peak time for the Alaska Marine Highway System, and the proposed five-month summer schedule just came out. Many communities will get only limited service and coastal lawmakers aren’t happy.

Parents are becoming increasingly distressed about their children’s education during the pandemic after more than half of students failed their classes during the last semester, according to a report from the school district.

In 2015, Congress passed the federal farm bill which allowed people to donate wild game that they’ve hunted to certified non-profits, like hospitals or food banks.

Some survivors think law enforcement doesn’t prioritize these kinds of crimes, especially when the victims are Alaska Native.

The investigation is the result, in part, of the Alaska Disability Law Center's 2020 complaint that the state has failed to provide appropriate treatment and relied too heavily on locking up children with behavioral health disorders, often at out-of-state, for-profit psychiatric institutions.

After the Southwest Alaska village's water plant burned in a fire two weeks ago, Tuluksak's residents are struggling to find a solution to their crisis.

CEO Angela Rodell says the organization recently held slightly over 168,000 shares in GameStop, but that number changes daily.

Donated bottled water in Bethel is ready to be shipped out on the next plane, but Tuluksak’s runway has been unusable because of weather conditions. The man who usually plows it is in Anchorage being treated for COVID-19.

Last week, the FBI warned about the potential for violence before the inauguration of Joe Biden, though police departments in Anchorage and Juneau have said they are not aware of any specific threats.

The ceremony that's traditionally held in an auditorium was held over zoom and maxed out capacity at 100 viewers.

The sighting is both exciting for the Canadian birders who saw it, and also one small clue in a wider pattern of change.

The federal government has released a draft environmental impact statement on an oil and gas lease sale in Cook Inlet, tentatively scheduled for late 2021, a process conservationists say is rushed.

In an unusual move, the Alaska Department of Fish & Game set a large guideline harvest level for the commercial herring fishing in Sitka this spring, on the understanding that the fleet is not likely to hit that mark.

Democrats filed a bill that would reverse the Trump administration’s decision to exempt the nation’s largest national forest from the 2001 rule that restricts road-building and other development.

Tackling the global crisis can be daunting, but in Sitka, the city assembly and a group of concerned citizens are taking action with the revival of a decade-old task force.

A statewide poll from late November shows that 45% of Alaskans who identify as Republicans said they won’t get the COVID-19 vaccine when they become eligible. That’s compared with just 13% of Democrats.

The Anchorage Assembly voted late Tuesday to extend the city’s emergency declaration a seventh time, until April 16. The body also voted to pass a resolution condemning the violence at the U.S. Capitol last week.

“A Shape in the Dark: Living and Dying with Brown Bears” is a new book by Juneau writer and wilderness guide Bjorn Dihle. It’s a portrait of brown bears and their complex relationship with humans.

After years of waiting, the Arctic Deep Draft Port project in Nome was authorized by Congress on December 21 and is ready to move forward.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s appointees will be able to remain in place for now, after a Juneau Superior Court judge ruled against an effort by lawmakers to remove some of them.

Red Devil can’t get funding together to pump its tanks or to dig a lagoon because it doesn’t have any entities to act as recipients on the community’s behalf.

A local foundation had its oil stove stolen twice since September. Others have also had stoves taken. Police say one arrest has been made.

Some Haines residents displaced by the recent landslide say they’re still cut off from their properties and in the dark about what comes next.

Slavii is a Russian Orthodox celebration observed by many in Southwest Alaska.

After being delayed for almost a decade, the federal government is moving forward with the process for designating critical habitat for two species of seal listed as threatened.

But the court declined to rule on the underlying questions of First Amendment free speech protections for shareholders of Alaska Native Corporations.

Alaska is expected to add jobs in 2021, but at a slow pace.

The search for twp missing men has become a training ground for a new generation of search and rescue volunteers.

The nation’s sole heavy icebreaker arrived in the Aleutian Islands this week for the first time since 2013.

Officials say they’re better prepared to run the race this time around.

The number of positive cases represents roughly 10% of the village’s 440 residents.

Teachers are scheduled to get a vaccine after older Alaskans but there is no timetable set for widespread distribution

The first-ever oil and gas lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge marks a historic and controversial moment in a 40-year battle over whether to drill for oil on the northeast Alaska land.

From mid-June to mid-October, Dan Binde of Minnesota hiked from Yakutat, in the northern reaches of Alaska's Inside Passage, across the Alaska Peninsula, to Unimak, the largest and easternmost of the Aleutian Islands.

How we got here, and what’s to come.

It’s a win for the Trump administration, which has pushed to lock in drilling in the refuge in its final weeks, before President-elect Joe Biden takes office and can try to stop it.

It’s the darkest part of winter in very dark year marked with loss, anxiety, economic worries, political upheaval and isolation. We’ve been asking Alaskans where they find inspiration, hope and comfort on their bleakest days. Many of them said they turned to art — music, literature, film, and spiritual texts — to help get through […]

Scientists are still digging for answers about the low abundance of adult razor clams on the east side of Cook Inlet. In the meantime, charter companies are taking passengers over to the west side, where razors abound.

U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason will hear oral arguments at 1 p.m. Monday, just two days before the federal government plans to hold its lease sale.

The state of Alaska is asking frontline essential workers, teachers, prisoners and others in high-risk settings to wait until those elderly Alaskans can be vaccinated first.

It’s a controversial move, and a way for the state to secure drilling rights in the coastal plain in case no one else bids on the leases.