Barge rates have gone up in the new year across Southeast Alaska. But the rising cost of hauling goods into coastal communities isn’t the only reason a trip to the grocery store might be more expensive.
Food
Ketchikan Indian Community’s new president says she’ll push for greater access to traditional foods
She also plans to keep pushing for a ban on tailings dams that hold back mine waste along cross-border rivers.
In Alaska’s largest school districts, families are still waiting for last year’s food assistance
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.
Federal disasters declared for 14 Alaska fisheries
The disaster declarations included one for the 2020 Southeast Alaska salmon fisheries.
Alaskan kids ‘do everything except pull the trigger’ in class moose hunt
The school’s outdoor exploration class is not unique in Alaska. But to many readers of the New York Times, which recently published a story about the class’s successful hunt, it was a surprising and unfamiliar topic.
The Year in KTOO News: Juneau arts and culture
The year 2021 was a great one for public art in Juneau.