The U.S. House would have to approve the Secure Rural Schools Act money before it can be restored to logging towns nationwide ...

The state school board may not vote on the proposal until October at the earliest, according to a public notice.

H.R. 42 and H.R. 43 Pass the U.S. Senate; headed to President’s Desk Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, along with U.S. Representative Nick Begich (all R-Alaska), ...

The National Weather Service issued the heat advisory earlier this week, with temperatures in central Alaska climbing to the ...

The village of Ruby celebrated two larger than life Alaska figures on June 7: Aviation legend Harold Esmailka and Chief ...

Every year, the Huntington family spent about $7,000 on diesel to heat the cabin during bone-chilling winters, and a few ...

In what the Alaska Legislature’s longest-serving member called the “smoothest ending in 20 years” the Senate adjourned for the year at 1:20 p.m. Tuesday, followed by the House at 1:53 p.m ...

Legislation passed Wednesday by the Alaska House of Representatives would require the state’s school districts to adopt policies that restrict the use of cellphones by students during school hours.

These districts don’t have a local tax base and rely entirely on state and federal dollars. They can’t raise extra money the way Anchorage does, which covers 37% of its education budget locally. REAA ...

REAA’s are generally communities that are too small to have a full-blown school district. Although Mt. Edgecumbe is located in Sitka, it is owned and operated by the state Department of Education ...

Alaska has 3,600 fewer students than it did 25 years ago, and the Fairbanks school district accounts for two-thirds of that loss. Brandy Harty is a Fairbanks North Star Borough School Board member.

His grandfather, Nick Begich, Sr., was an Alaska congressman, before mysteriously disappearing on a flight and being pronounced dead in 1972. His uncle, Mark Begich, was a U.S. senator for Alaska ...