Defiant Mat-Su Health Foundation rebuffs members’ requests to vote for governing board
The June 10 annual membership meeting of the Mat-Su Health Foundation (MSHF) included impassioned calls for the organization to let its members, once again, vote for who represents them on the organization’s powerful governing board of
Endangered Outdoorsmen: Fewer Alaskans buy fishing and hunting licenses
While Alaskans may have a reputation for landing salmon and shooting moose, caribou and bear, the percentage and overall number who purchased resident fishing, hunting or trapping licenses in is markedly lower than it was just 10 years
Denali National Park bridge crew ordered to stop flying American flags
According to the contractor, Denali National Park Superintendent Brooke Merrell contacted the man overseeing the federal highways project, claiming there had been complaints about the U.S. flags, and notifying him that the bridge workers were no longer
11 GOP lawmakers join Dems’ attack to boot homeschool champ from Alaska Education Board
In what conservative Alaska legislators characterized as an open “political attack” against one of the strongest champions for homeschool, charter and correspondence education, 11 Republican lawmakers joined all Democrats in the Alaska Legislature to
Alaska lawmakers to hear testimony on bills that restrict homeschool allotment spending
In response to the April 12 ruling by Anchorage Superior Court Judge Adolf Zeman, which effectively gutted Alaska’s unique correspondence/homeschool programs for roughly 24,000 students, state lawmakers are considering two bills aimed at preserving parts
OPINION: 33 Alaska House members fail to grasp that grand juries are independent
Alaska Grand Juries are separate from are separate other branches of government and so should not be limited in their selection of a special prosecutor to someone that is employed by or hired by another branch of
OPINION: A messenger of peace in a world at war
I found myself facing a large wooden medieval door of a small and noticeably aged Gothic-style church. With some effort, I opened the thick door and slowly walked into the church. There was no one in the sanctuary; it was dark, a slight scent of burnt candles
Drag dancer ‘Ivanna Kischacok’ among performers listed for kids’ story hour at Soldotna Library
With an upcoming drag queen story hour for children on Jan. 6, the Soldotna Public Library will be the kick-off location for the town’s first-ever “Happy New Queer” winter celebration of all things LGBTQ. Among the six people listed as “guest drag
State law gives Alaskans a tool to hold wayward educators accountable
Over the past few years, school districts in Alaska and around the nation have faced heated disputes regarding activist educators who use their influence and position to push controversial political or social ideology on impressionable students. Some school
Ketchikan library’s refusal to move teen sex book prompts special city council meeting on June 22
Ketchikan library’s refusal to move teen sex book prompts special city council meeting on June
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