The change in Alaska’s math scores mirrored a trend seen across the country.
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Russian asylum seekers who boated to Alaska island are Indigenous, Murkowski says
Murkowski said the two are from a coastal community in the general area of Provideniya, a city in Chukotka, the peninsula closest to Alaska.
Alaska’s minimum wage is set to rise, but increase fails to keep pace with housing costs
Estimates indicate someone earning minimum wage would have to work 74 hours per week to meet their basic needs in Juneau.
Confronting rising bills and flat state funding, Alaska schools say they are at a fiscal cliff
The problem has been developing for years, but the end of COVID financial aid has triggered a crisis.
Administration says Corrections deaths not ‘unusual,’ ACLU says it’s deflecting responsibility
None of the 15 people to die in Alaska Department of Corrections custody in 2022 so far “died as a result of others,” according to Gov. Mike Dunleavy. Acting Corrections Commissioner Jen Winkelman also said the deaths were not “unusual.”
Alaska absentee ballots should have two stamps, but one is OK, officials say
The first absentee ballots for the Nov. 8 general election have already been sent, and the design of the return envelope includes a box for only one stamp, but fine print in the absentee ballot instructions says to attach 84 cents’ worth of postage.