Alaska had the biggest decline in average life expectancy of all U.S. states in 2021, a year when health outcomes were heavily influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent national ...

Hepatitis B, once rampant in Indigenous villages, has been brought under control in the state, but a CDC advisory committee ...

J.R. Pederson was 19 years old and fresh out of school at Dakota College in Bottineau, North Dakota, when the call of adventure led him away from the prairie and north to the rugged wilderness of ...

A young hemlock topples sideways out into the roadway, leaving only one side of the dirt road open. My dad drives around the tree. We’re heading to Earl West at the end of the main logging road, a ...

Most of us, as we get older, can point to that one moment when something occurred and, unbeknownst to ourselves at the time, the entire trajectory of our lives from that point onward is set in place.

Thumbs up: PFD time. If you opted for direct deposit for your 2024 Permanent Fund dividend, Thursday is your day. The Alaska Department of Revenue will distribute the first round of dividends Thursday ...