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Family of 6 spent nearly 24 hours stranded on Alaska river in storm, officials say
Alaska Army National Guard Chief Warrant Officer 3 Nick Lime helps people trapped June 30 on a river in Alaska during a storm ...
Heavy rain for Southwest Alaska, with the Interior warming back into the 80s
Overall, this week will trend on the drier side for Southcentral, with a slow, but gradual, warming trend. Leading up to ...
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Bill pending in Senate would make high Alaska energy costs worse, groups warn
A report says more renewable energy and other policies would lower Alaska's high energy costs, but Congress is poised to cut ...
Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint
KWETHLUK, Alaska — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael ...
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Federal authority over Alaska fishing rights faces renewed scrutiny
In the district court, the state argued that the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act doesn’t permit the federal ...
Who was Olga, the Alaska Native drawing devotion as Orthodoxy's new saint?
The first female Orthodox saint in North America was an Indigenous woman who spent her entire life with her Yup'ik family and ...
Alaska Native becomes first female Orthodox North American saint
An Alaska Native woman is the newest saint for the Orthodox Church in America. St. Olga was canonized last week in the tiny southwest Alaska village of Kwethluk, and she is the first female Orthodox ...