Krusenstern Lagoon in Cape Krusenstern National Monument is one of many lagoons along the coast of the Chukchi Sea in Alaska. Photo: Marguerite Tibbles For more than 4,000 years, the Iñupiat people have lived on the coast of the Chukchi Sea in Alaska, relying on wild...
The Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta is the largest river delta in the world. About 25,000 people, most of them indigenous people, live on about 130,000 square kilometers. In this infrastructure-poor region, the digital gap is now to be closed with two large federal grants....
Anchorage-based regional telecommunications provider GCI is embarking on a multimillion-dollar project to provide hi-speed Internet connections to Aleutian communities between Unalaska and Anchorage via fiber-optic cable. Now, thanks to a federal grant, six more...
(Artist’s conception: SMU) Think of large, plant-eating dinosaurs, and the setting that comes to mind is likely an ancient tropical swamp, not a coastal environment that is akin America’s Pacific Northwest. That, though, appears precisely to have been the type...
A fairly big cheque (Photo: Gov Mike Dunleavy / Facebook) Starting in 20 September, Alaskans of all ages will begin receiving a payment of $3,284. That is when the state will begin sending out the dividend from the earnings on the investments it makes using the oil,...
