After two years and a pandemic-related delay, the consulate’s mission from San Francisco meant some Filipinos in Alaska could finally visit their families back home.
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LISTEN: No Canada Day events for some, including Dawson City, after boarding school discoveries
Dawson City also announced it would donate its funds for Canada Day events to an investigation into residential schools in the territory.
Alaska Medicaid must cover gender-affirming care following Homer woman’s lawsuit
Starting this month, Alaska Medicaid can no longer deny coverage to transgender Alaskans undergoing gender-affirming treatment.
At home in an avalanche path: Why Juneauites buy and keep homes in a hazard zone
Decades of studies have pointed to the very real possibility of a big, destructive slide in this Juneau neighborhood’s future. But a mix of personal choices and policy decisions keeps people in at-risk areas.
Vigil held in Juneau for children found at Kamloops boarding school
Last Saturday, the Alaska Native community and allies gathered at Overstreet Park in Juneau for a candlelight vigil honoring the 215 children found at a residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia.
‘It is our story as well’: After Kamloops, a Fairbanks vigil to mourn and raise awareness of boarding school trauma
The 215 bandanas, symbolic of the residential school children who died in British Columbia, will remain along the Chena River footbridge until the solstice, a span of 215 hours.