Alaska

By state statute, the Alaska Organized Militia, which encompasses the Alaska National Guard, Alaska Naval Militia and the Alaska State Defense Force, can be called into state active duty to assist with state disasters or other emergencies.

This is a collaborative effort with the University of Alaska Southeast, University of Alaska Fairbanks, NOAA Fisheries Alaska Regional Office and Alaska Fisheries Science Center/Auke Bay Laboratories and the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission.

He previously served in the Alaska National Guard and has been involved in many leadership roles in Alaska Native organizations, including co-chair of the Alaska Federation of Natives.

On this Alaska Insight, host Lori Townsend is joined by Alaska Public Media reporters Liz Ruskin and Eric Stone to discuss the results and implications of Alaska’s 2024 election.

The ACLU of Alaska filed suit against Governor Dunleavy in July after he imposed a $334,700 veto against the Alaska Court System in retaliation for the Alaska Supreme Court’s defense of a woman’s constitutionally protected right to choose.

Despite the loss, Alaska out-did the Huskies in face-off wins with Alaska winning 30 face-offs while St. Cloud won 26, meaning Alaska won 54 percent of the face-offs.

Eleven individuals were recognized during the 2018 Alaska Federation of Natives convention in Anchorage, for their contributions to the Alaska Native community and rural Alaska.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is set to make an address to Alaska Legislature on Alaska issues in Congress.

SEATTLE (AP) – A retired Alaska state lawmaker says a naked passenger was tackled and detained on an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Anchorage, Alaska.

The term Alaska Native has important legal usage in Alaska and the rest of the United States as a result of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971.

The Yupik comprise speakers of four distinct Yupik languages: one used in the Russian Far East and the others among people of Western Alaska, Southcentral Alaska and along the Gulf of Alaska coast.

A graph comparing Alaska general and prison populations’ proportions of American Indian or Alaska Native (AI/AN) inmates to other states.

Alaska Chief Justice Daniel Winfree receives applause from state lawmakers after finishing the annual State of the Judiciary address to the Alaska Legislature on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023.

And so the idea that we might actually need natural gas from outside of Alaska to continue heating our homes and generating our power is actually very offensive to a lot of Alaskans, and to a lot of Alaska policymakers.

Bjorn Dihle is Alaska magazine's gear editor and a lifelong resident of southeast Alaska.

Both the Alaska Department of Corrections and Alaska State Troopers declined to comment other than what was stated in the court documents.

Central Alaskan Yup’ik is the largest of the Alaska Native languages, with about 10,000 speakers in 68 villages across southwest Alaska.

ConocoPhillips Alaska, Alaska’s largest oil producer, is among the companies that have expressed interest in Mr. Dunleavy’s carbon plan but said it is too early to make any commitments.

FORT GREELY, Alaska — Twenty-one middle school students from Delta Junction, Alaska are one step closer to realizing their dream professions thanks to U.S. Army Cold Regions Test Center.

He moved to Alaska to play hockey for the University of Alaska Anchorage.