Juneau Empire on MSN6d
Record gold prices could mean a banner year for Alaska mines
A year ago, Alaska’s miners were selling gold at what seemed like a great price: around $2,200 per ounce. Today, that number ...
ICT News on MSN12d
Nearly 2 decades after Alaska school asked state to fund repair, its building is about to collapse
Over the past 25 years, state officials have largely ignored hundreds of requests by rural school districts to fix the ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel2d
Travois tracks at White Sands National Park indicate earliest human transport devices
Ten thousand years before humans developed agriculture or built the first cities in Mesopotamia, Ancient Native Americans ...
Alaska Dispatch News8d
Record gold prices could mean a banner year for Alaska mines
A year ago, Alaska’s miners were selling gold at what seemed like a great price: around $2,200 per ounce. Today, that number sounds like a steal. After a historic surge in value, gold is now ...
A Rural Alaska School Asked the State to Fund a Repair. Nearly Two Decades Later, the Building Is About to Collapse.
Rural school districts depend on the state to fund construction and maintenance projects. But over the past 25 years, Alaska lawmakers have ignored hundreds of requests for public schools that ...
Alaska Public Media23d
Scientists witnessed a ‘Humpback Palooza’ in the Arctic. Local hunters worry about what that could mean for subsistence.
Catching salmon in the North Slope village of Kaktovik was unheard of not too long ago. But resident Robert Thompson says some fishermen now see salmon more regularly. About five years ago, he ...
Alaska Dispatch News16d
At least 138 fired federal employees have applied for unemployment insurance in Alaska
More than 130 recently-fired federal employees in Alaska have applied for state unemployment benefits in recent weeks, amid efforts from the Trump administration’s Department of Government ...
Yahoo12d
Nearly 2 decades after Alaska school asked state to fund repair, its building is about to collapse
— Unwilling to Invest: Over the past 25 years, Alaska lawmakers have ignored hundreds of requests from rural school districts to fund repairs at their crumbling schools. — Absent Landlord ...
Geographical9d
The curious geography of time
As we move our clocks forward an hour into British Summer Time, Alastair Bonnett considers the uses and abuses of one of the ...
Alaska Public Media23d
Alaska Native Corp. subsidiary running Guantanamo Bay detention facility
Migrants detained in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown are led to a plane bound for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. As the Trump administration's immigration crackdown has ramped up ...