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Alaska legislators press Mt. Edgecumbe officials after over 100 students disenroll this school year
14+ hour, 3+ min ago (1410+ words) Lawmakers held a series of hearings with officials from Mt. Edgecumbe High School, the largest state-run boarding school in Alaska, following a tumultuous year of budget and staff cuts, administration changes, and a wave of student disenrollments. Sen. Bert Stedman,…...
Western Alaska evacuees in Anchorage slowly moving to temporary housing
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (498+ words) Western Alaska residents who evacuated to Anchorage after the remnants of Typhoon Halong battered their villages are now moving out of city hotels and into temporary housing. They're looking forward to having more privacy, being able to cook for themselves,…...
Western Alaska Disaster Relief Fund distributes over $3.3 million in Halong aid
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (303+ words) A donation fund has distributed over $3.3 million to communities impacted by Typhoon Halong. The Western Alaska Disaster Relief Fund quickly formed in the days after the storm struck Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta communities. It destroyed homes and property, and displaced hundreds of…...
Traditional foods drive in Bethel supports Halong impacted households in the Y-K Delta
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (586+ words) When Typhoon Halong forced residents out of the Yukon-Kuskokwim (Y-K) Delta in October, efforts to get subsistence/traditional foods for people who had been displaced began immediately. It has been several weeks, and those requests and donations for people in…...
Alaska writer and artist team up to build a community of support for storm evacuees
3+ mon, 9+ hour ago (495+ words) The October storm that heaped destruction on the Southwest Alaskan coast has also brought an outpouring of support. Alaska writer Don Rearden has teamed up with his sister, Beth Hill, to do their part, and to help others do the…...
Alaska’s public schools serve as emergency shelters. Those buildings are also in crisis
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (798+ words) On a Sunday morning last month, James Taq'ac Amik was huddled on a small bridge with his girlfriend. At 4 a.m., they had scrambled into an 18-foot aluminum motor boat, fleeing floodwaters from a massive storm surge that inundated Kipnuk, a village…...
‘Food is deeply personal and sacred.’ Global organization works to bring traditional foods to Halong-impacted communities
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (713+ words) Packaged shelf stable foods are often on the front lines of disaster response. Think protein bars and canned soup " it's what can keep, stack on a plane, and be deployed fast. But those foods are very different from the moose…...
'That's what our Native people do.' AFN convention brought focus to storm-impacted communities
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (586+ words) From the opening remarks to the final hours of the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) convention, talk of Western Alaska and the storm-impacted communities of the Yukon-Kuskokwim (Y-K) Delta filled the Dena'ina Center in Anchorage. That included federation co-chair and…...
After a new analysis, state of Alaska upholds position on tribal banishments
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (334+ words) In a new legal opinion, Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor affirmed that the state cannot enforce tribal banishments from communities. The analysis, published Aug. 1, means that the Alaska State Troopers and most other law enforcement agencies will keep their policing…...
New monument recognizes Dena’ina name for Anchorage peak
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (306+ words) There's a new monument in Chugach State Park that recognizes the Indigenous name for Tanaina Peak. The Dena'ina name for the mountain near Flattop in Anchorage is Qin Cheghi, which means "crying ridge," said Aaron Leggett, president of the Native…...