Allies & Enemies: The historic pendulum of U.S.-Russian relations – part 1
The purpose of this article is to place the story of cooperation along the Alaska-Siberia Lend-Lease Airway during WWII into a larger context—the development of Russian-American relations over time.
Fairbanks School Board aims to block federal immigration agents from schools
The Fairbanks North Star School Board is set to vote on a resolution aimed at blocking federal agents from enforcing longstanding immigration
Kenai to vote on scrapping machine tabulators in favor of hand counting
Hand count proponents are hoping voters will approve Prop. 1 during the Oct. 7 regular election. If it passes, it will require all paper ballots, cast in-person on election day, be counted manually by hand, rather than using electronic tabulating
Transgender teacher disrespects Alaska Native culture, Bethel parents say
“I would like the LGBT people to respect our Yup’ik culture," Carter said. "This lifestyle is not part of our tradition. It’s their
Governor taps former Trump DOJ senior official as Alaska’s next Attorney General
Gov. Mike Dunleavy has appointed Stephen J. Cox as the next Attorney General of Alaska. He replaces Treg Taylor who resigns on Aug. 29, and is expected to announce a run for governor. Cox served in the first Trump Administration as a senior U.S. Department of
OPINION: Alaska’s new Grand Jury ‘process’ helps hide government corruption
On August 18, Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor gave a town hall presentation in Soldotna to supposedly “restore public confidence in the system,” and defend his new “process” in which he is the “gatekeeper” to Alaska’s Grand
Public comment sought on Trump’s push to nix ‘roadless rule’ in Alaska’s Tongass forest
“For nearly 25 years, the Roadless Rule has frustrated land managers and served as a barrier to action – prohibiting road construction, which has limited wildfire suppression and active forest management,” U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz
ON NOTICE: Alaska schools have 60 days to ditch LGBTQ sex-ed dogma or lose fed. funds
Alaska schools that subject children to LGBTQ dogma in their sex-ed programs now have 60 days to purge this controversial content or face the loss of federal sex-ed
OPINION: Could Alaska get a ‘Gov. Lisa Murkowski’?
Let’s examine, in more detail, what U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s chances are of winning the Alaska gubernatorial race if she ran as a
Conservative radio host Bob Bird is Alaska’s ‘Broadcaster of the Year’
Conservative talk show host Bob Bird, host of the “Talk of the Kenai” show for KSRM, has received the top award among Alaska’s radio
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