Anchorage Police Chief Sean Case (left) and Mayor Suzanne LaFrance speak to reporters on Aug. 15, 2024 at APD headquarters. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media) The…
Gretchen Bersch shares some of the life lessons she’s learned while spending a lifetime on Yukon Island, Alaska. The retired teacher now uses her family…
A photo of Noatak on Sept. 27, 2024. (Courtesy Jeffrey Luther) About four years ago, Jeffrey Luther noticed something strange along the river near the…
Naomi Larson is seen in Nunapitchuk in 2023. (Courtesy Katraena Roe) A warning to readers: this story contains descriptions of death that some readers may…
(Creative Commons photo by Dru Kelly) Alaska’s rural communities are confronting a profound crisis. From 2012 to 2021, pregnancy-associated deaths in rural Alaska almost tripled,…
Hiland Mountain Correctional Center in Eagle River, one of the 15 facilities the new chief medical officer with oversee. (Courtesy of the Alaska Department of…
A syringe containing a vaccine for whooping cough in a waiting room at Alaska Family Care and Associates in Anchorage on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024.…
