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There were at least three reports of close encounters with a teenage female orca in the ocean around Juneau in a single day at the end of April.

After a judge ruled Alaska’s correspondence school program violates the state Constitution, lawmakers are looking for a way forward.

Just before receiving her diploma as a University of Alaska Anchorage graduate on Sunday, Katie Scoggin spoke to her classmates about the importance of being part of a community. “There is strength not only in numbers, but especially in dedicating yourself to serving others and giving back to the communities that raised you,” Scoggin said during…

Alaska Seaplanes, the region’s most comprehensive carrier, has developed new approach paths and installed GPS equipment sensitive enough to allow instrument flights even in the challenging geography of the region.

Lisa Pearce was selected after contracting to work on the budget this winter.

Owners can put off the costly process of tearing down the platforms using a strategy one critic calls “delay, deny and diddle around.” And in Alaska, the state has let them do it — for decades.

Dr. Robert Lawrence is a family medicine doctor who got his start in rural Alaska.

Master Gardener Ed Buyarski says your apple and cherry trees shouldn’t have any rubbing branches — that a robin should be able to fly through a tree without hitting its wings.

When marijuana becomes a Schedule III instead of a Schedule I substance under federal rules, researchers will face fewer barriers to studying it. But there will still be some roadblocks for science.

Since the early-2000s, white-tailed deer have been moving north into the boreal forests of western Canada.

The judge found that parents were using allotments to pay for private and religious schools, a violation of the state Constitution. 

Dunleavy told reporters he’ll likely call lawmakers back to Juneau for a special session if the Alaska Supreme Court doesn’t allow the homeschool laws to stand.

For Inupiat communities on the North Slope, bowhead whaling is a central part of spring. But climate change is adding an extra element of uncertainty to the whaling season.

The event showcased the largest collection of new Ravenstail weaving in decades.

The previous plan is 25 years old.

Sitka Indian Village was once home to over forty Lingít clan houses. Today, only eight of those are still standing, and even fewer serve as active clan houses.

The latecomer is the Nieuw Amsterdam, which notified Sitka’s port director about a week ago that it was making an unscheduled call.

Somehow, we found a Clemson economist who studies competition between gas stations.

Last year, Dunleavy vetoed half of a similar $680-per-student increase in one-time education funding.

They feel the board failed to understand this year’s budget and the $7.9 million dollar deficit that came with it and are worried about the impacts of closing and rearranging schools for students.