The recording of votes on sample ballots prompted concern on a community Facebook page. But the state said it was perfectly legal.
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Feds to monitor compliance with voting rights laws in rural Alaska
Monitoring will focus on the Bethel, Dillingham and Kusilvak Census Areas, as well as the North Slope and Northwest Arctic Boroughs.
Alaska Corrections contractor denies ACLU claim of ‘massive’ prisoner health data breach
The ACLU said that electronic records displayed diagnoses, prescriptions, and treatments of “at least 74” incarcerated Alaskans. That included people incarcerated at Lemon Creek Correctional Center in Juneau.
Satellite internet shakes up rural Alaska schools amid rising costs
Education is increasingly reliant on the internet. In rural Alaska, who provides internet service to schools is a million-dollar question.
Judge finds feds failed to consider full impact of Donlin Gold in environmental analysis
Judge Sharon Gleason found that regulators did violate the law in some aspects of their analysis, but denied some plaintiffs’ claims.
4 people killed in St. Mary’s plane crash
Four people are dead after a plane they were traveling in from Bethel crashed short of the runway in St. Mary’s late Sunday night, according to transportation officials. The Cessna 207 was operated by Bethel-based Yute Commuter Service. The pilot and three passengers departed Bethel for the roughly 100-mile journey to the lower Yukon River…
Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta residents brace for fall storms after early floods and erosion
Last week’s fierce storms aren’t unprecedented, but longtime residents say they aren’t all that normal either.
Bering Sea storm brings erosion and flooding to Western Alaska communities
Some residents report that the flooding is worse than Typhoon Merbok, and that it rivals this year’s historic breakup floods on the Kuskokwim.
All the news that’s fit to reprint: AI and plagiarism drive revamped Tundra Drums website
The motives for resurrecting a storied Bethel newspaper’s website to hoover up a wide range of Alaska content remain unclear.
Aniak’s tribe sues state, feds over ancestral remains taken from airport site
The tribe wants the excavated remains to be returned. It also seeks permission to continue exploring the site to recover and preserve other remains or cultural artifacts.