According to the Food Bank of Alaska, just 28 school districts in the state have received Pandemic-Electronic Bank Transfer funds for the 2020-2021 school year.
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More tiny homes are coming to the Y-K Delta, thanks to pandemic relief funds. But are they a good idea?
Because these grants are tied to coronavirus relief funding, tribes must use the homes as isolation or quarantine units, at least at first.
Parents and caregivers of young children say they’ve hit pandemic rock bottom
The people who take care of and educate children under 5 years old – both parents and providers – are in a special kind of hell right now.
For Tongans in Alaska, a fretful wait for news after eruption and tsunami
There has been very little contact with Tonga since Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai erupted.
Troopers find mother of newborn found at Fairbanks intersection
A note left with the newborn said the family could not care for the baby, who was wrapped in a blanket inside a cardboard box.
Operation Santa heads to Chevak and Buckland in Western Alaska
Operation Santa recipient communities are identified by the state as communities that have experienced particular hardship that year.