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Alaska Supreme Court says most business insurance doesn’t cover COVID-19 damages
Alaska was the last state to decide whether common commercial insurer policies would cover harm businesses suffered in the ...
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When business is booming but daily living is a struggle
Editor’s note: This five-day series explores the priorities of voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin as they consider the upcoming presidential ...
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Alaska tribes get nearly $14 million in federal grants to address domestic violence, sexual assault
The U.S. Justice Department has announced more than $86 million in grants for American Indian and Alaska Native communities to support survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, ...
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Yukon River salmon runs remain low, but glimmers of improvement emerge
The fall chum run was among lowest ever, but the summer chum run supported subsistence fishing and Chinook arrivals in Canada ...
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Campaign for Alaska’s Bering Strait House district is a three-peat among familiar candidates
For the third time, incumbent Neal Foster and challenger Tyler Ivanoff are facing off in a contest to represent the Bering ...
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Alaska Supreme Court upholds decision ordering local election for Soldotna annexation plan
The court confirmed that the state's Local Boundary Commission has the power to order an election, even if one isn't ...
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Changing demographics and the political calculus of anti-immigrant rhetoric in swing states
Growing populations of new and first-generation citizens in the swing states are transforming demographics and voter concerns ...
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Will abortion swing the first post-Roe presidential election?
Editor’s note: This five-day series explores the priorities of voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin as they consider the upcoming presidential ...
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Two Kodiak trawlers caught 2,000 king salmon. Now, a whole fishery is closed.
Federal managers shut down a major Alaska fishery Wednesday after two Kodiak-based boats targeting whitefish caught some 2,000 king salmon — an unintentional harvest that drew near-instant ...