Jenna Kunze

Since launching in the state in late 2022, Starlink has given Alaskans another option for web access in places that are harder to reach with physical infrastructure.

The 2020 Arctic Report Card, released this month by 134 researchers across Arctic nations, tells a story of change on sea and land.

Charity Blanchett has launched a nonprofit that would fully support young Indigenous and Black women from Alaska, Hawaii and Louisiana to attend culinary school.

Haines has a strong legacy of volunteerism. It’s also been roiled by local politics in the past. Once it became clear that the community had an emergency on its hands, those divisions faded into the background.

“This is the best community,” said Betty Reyes, whose dog was rescued from her flooded home via stand-up paddleboard. “Everybody is helping out how they can.”

“Looking at the reality of the situation … it doesn’t look good, and it brings me great pain to say that it is more than likely that Jenae and David are deceased,” the mayor said.

“The worry is that it’s going to be more of what created this whole problem,” said the borough’s interim manager.

Wilfried Zibell will study colonization and its impacts on Alaska economies at Oxford.

“We were not able to get up and out as much as we can because the slide area is still unstable,” the interim borough manager said Friday.

With the ground unstable and unsuitable for a ground search, city officials said boats, helicopters and aircraft have been used to search for the two still missing.

Mayor Fannie Suvlu, who brought forward the ordinance, said that the policy is intended for public education, not for shaming.

Dozens of people have tested positive in Utqiaġvik, Kotzebue and Buckland.

The order, which exclusively applies to Utqiaġvik, allows people to leave their homes only if they work for “critical infrastructure” or services, and to shop for groceries, seek health care, or get fresh air.

Jenilee Donovan, 16, threw the darting gun releasing the second harpoon that landed her community its first bowhead of the season.

In recent weeks, local fishermen have caught at least four porpoises in subsistence fishing nets near Point Barrow.