The document says the strategy “acknowledges increasing strategic competition in the Arctic since 2013, exacerbated by Russia’s unprovoked war in Ukraine.”
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As people die in Alaska prisons, reform advocates are calling for independent investigation
With the death of William Hensely III on Sunday, Corrections matches the highest number of in-custody deaths the department has seen in the past decade. In 2015, 15 people died in Corrections custody.
Interim Revenue Commissioner Deven Mitchell is new CEO of Alaska Permanent Fund Corp.
The APFC board fired the previous CEO, Angela Rodell, in December 2021.
Alaska Legislature’s new social media policy nixes banning and blocking
Over the past year, three state lawmakers have been sued for blocking comments on their social media accounts.
His grandmother was forbidden to speak Lingít in school. Now, school is helping him reclaim it.
The class assignment was to write a letter to anyone they wanted. In Lingít. Eechdaa Dave Ketah chose his late grandmother, the person who spoke Lingít to him when he was growing up in Ketchikan. “And I was telling her that it’s hard learning the language at this point in my life, and one thing…
Two more people die after a short time in Alaska Corrections custody
The number of in-custody deaths so far this year had already surpassed the nine in-custody deaths that took place last year.