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Activist Ketchikan librarians don ‘Handmaids’ costumes in defiance of book challenges

CultureFebruary 7, 2024

Six women wearing long red gowns and Puritan head dresses, then stood silently on the catwalk. For the performance, the women put red tape over their mouths as they solemnly walked down the stage, defiantly threw back their gowns and revealed their varied

University of Alaska facilitates ‘confidential’ sex survey on young teens

EducationFebruary 6, 2024

A radical, pro-kink, LGBTQ activist student is teaming up with a University of Alaska – Anchorage professor to conduct a "confidential" sex survey on Alaska teens, ages 14 to

Anchorage launches Alaska’s 2nd Moms For Liberty chapter to fight for parental rights

CultureFebruary 6, 2024

Alaska now has its second Moms For Liberty chapter, which is part of a rapidly growing network of more than 300 groups with 130,000 active members across 48

OPINION: Will Alaska lawmakers free Grand Juries to investigate OCS’ and human trafficking?

CrimeFebruary 1, 2024

unlawful behavior within the Office of Children Services (OCS) that makes children more vulnerable to human traffickers. Another is the protection that the Department of Law (DOL) and the Alaska Court System provides OCS instead of

Gov. Dunleavy tells Legislature that Alaska is in dire need of more people

Alaska Permanent Fund DividendJanuary 31, 2024

Barring more human beings - through increased births and more newly arrived residents - Alaska’s state slogan, “North to the Future,” will never be fulfilled. This was a key part of Gov. Dunleavy’s State of the State speech to the Alaska Legislature

OPINION: Gov. Dunleavy’s plot to abolish Board of Midwives undermines Alaska mothers

FamilyJanuary 29, 2024

As a mother who has given birth both at home with midwives and in a hospital setting, I was shocked to hear that our pro-life governor now seeks to eliminate the Board of

OPINION: Alaskans need to back stronger state and federal protections of parental rights

EducationJanuary 26, 2024

OPINION: Alaskans need to back stronger state and federal protections of parental

Alaska School Choice celebration offers parents alternatives to struggling public schools

EducationJanuary 19, 2024

To mark national school choice week, Alaska will hold a School Choice Celebration on Jan. 22, 4-7 p.m., at the Alaska Native Heritage

Mat-Su Borough library board to reconsider explicit youth books featuring incest, masochistic sex

CultureJanuary 12, 2024

Mat-Su Borough library board to reconsider explicit youth books featuring incest, masochistic

Soldotna Library drag queen story hour for kids postponed following public outcry

CultureJanuary 2, 2024

There will be no drag queen performances for children at the Soldotna Public Library on Jan. 6 after considerable public outcry led LGBTQ activists to indefinitely “postpone” the story hour

Family