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Alaska Reads Act pays off While education support shrinks

Alaska Reads Act pays off While education support shrinks

For the second consecutive year, student reading scores in Alaska have risen, a trend state officials attribute to the success of the Alaska Reads Act. According to new data from the Department of Education and Early Development, the percentage of...

Alaska DOC denies claims ICE detainees contracted tuberculosis at Anchorage jail

Alaska DOC denies claims ICE detainees contracted tuberculosis at Anchorage jail

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - An immigration attorney representing one of 41 men in Immigrations and Customs Enforcement custody — who were held temporarily at the Anchorage Correctional Complex in June — said his client was hospitalized for...

Anchorage Wildfire Division Chief speaks on Interior wildfire status

Anchorage Wildfire Division Chief speaks on Interior wildfire status

An immigration attorney representing one of 41 men in Immigrations and Customs Enforcement custody — who were held temporarily at the Anchorage Correctional Complex in June — said his client was hospitalized for tuberculosis upon returning from...

Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, July 10, 2025

Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, July 10, 2025

Thursday on Alaska News Nightly: Advocates say a detained immigrant contracted tuberculosis in Anchorage, but corrections officials dispute that claim. Plus,despite recent rainfall, fire managers warn Interior residents about ongoing fire danger....

NTSB Releases Final Report on Alaska Door Plug Failure

NTSB Releases Final Report on Alaska Door Plug Failure

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued its final report on the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 that lost a door plug shortly after takeoff out of Portland, Oregon, in January 2024. The 158-page report includes several pages of...

Senate Passes H.R. 43 and H.R. 42 - Alaska Federation of Natives

A Significant Step Forward for Our Communities FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 25, 2025 Anchorage, AK – The Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) and the Alaska Native Village Corporation Association (ANVCA) are pleased to announce the recent passage of...

Special session, serious stakes: Education and accountability are on the line

Special session, serious stakes: Education and accountability are on the line

News-Miner opinion: A special session has been called. The time to show up is now. Gov. Mike Dunleavy has exercised his constitutional authority to summon lawmakers to Juneau beginning Aug. 2. On the surface, the session’s agenda appears...

Christopher Simon - Alaska Federation of Natives

Christopher Simon was raised in Huslia, Alaska and is of the Bedzeyh Te Hut’aane clan. When his friends and classmates left Huslia to finish high school at Mt. Edgecumbe High School, Chris’ parents sent him to Nulato to live with another family....

Alaska governor’s office says state has no plans to build ‘Bear Alcatraz’ to jail ICE detainees

Alaska governor’s office says state has no plans to build ‘Bear Alcatraz’ to jail ICE detainees

By Corinne Smith / The Alaska Beacon After a Fox News interview raised the possibility of Alaska building a “Bear Alcatraz” Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, the office of Gov. Mike Dunleavy said on Tuesday that the state has...

Anchorage ICE detainee recently transferred to Tacoma hospitalized with tuberculosis

Anchorage ICE detainee recently transferred to Tacoma hospitalized with tuberculosis

An immigration detainee originally from Peru and recently held at the Anchorage jail was later hospitalized in Washington state with tuberculosis, his attorney said. According to the American Civil Union Liberty of Alaska, detainees held in...

One year in, Anchorage Mayor LaFrance reflects on housing, homelessness and public safety

One year in, Anchorage Mayor LaFrance reflects on housing, homelessness and public safety

Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance began her term on July 1, 2024, after representing South Anchorage for six years on the Anchorage Assembly and unseating former mayor Dave Bronson. Upon completing her first year as mayor, LaFrance sat down with...

Red Rock Elementary District Education: 16 American Indian or Alaska Native students were enrolled in schools in 2024-25 school year

Red Rock Elementary District Education: 16 American Indian or Alaska Native students were enrolled in schools in 2024-25 school year

Art Harding Chief Operations Officer at Arizona Department of Education | linkedin.comArt Harding Chief Operations Officer at Arizona Department of Education | linkedin.com There were 16 American Indian or Alaska Native students enrolled in Red...

Enrollment Analysis: American Indian or Alaska Native students comprised 9.4% of Coolidge Unified District’s student body in 2024-25 school year

Enrollment Analysis: American Indian or Alaska Native students comprised 9.4% of Coolidge Unified District’s student body in 2024-25 school year

Coolidge Unified District Superintendent Dawn Dee Hodge (2023) | Coolidge Unified DistrictCoolidge Unified District Superintendent Dawn Dee Hodge (2023) | Coolidge Unified District There were 263 American Indian or Alaska Native students enrolled...

NTSB Cites Boeing, FAA Shortcomings In Alaska Door Plug Final Report

NTSB Cites Boeing, FAA Shortcomings In Alaska Door Plug Final Report

Investigators released the final report on the January 2024 Alaska Airlines door plug incident Thursday, concluding that the in-flight separation of the left mid-exit door plug was the result of Boeing’s failure to follow proper manufacturing...

Juneau School Board pays off debt with extra state money as funding uncertainties persist

Juneau School Board pays off debt with extra state money as funding uncertainties persist

The Harborview Elementary School playground on July 9, 2025. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO) https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/09JSDAddBacks.wav A windfall of state education money means the Juneau School District Board of Education can...

Alaska AG talks crime, statehood defense at Chamber luncheon

Alaska AG talks crime, statehood defense at Chamber luncheon

Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor covered an array of topics at the Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, including statehood defense and the proposed 800-mile Alaska LNG (liquefied natural gas) pipeline that would run from the North...

PBS station highlights Anchorage Mayor’s distain for ICE arrests of illegal aliens

PBS station highlights Anchorage Mayor’s distain for ICE arrests of illegal aliens

Alaska Public Media, which is a taxpayer-funded PBS affiliate, took time to highlight the fact that Anchorage’s hard-leftist mayor is opposed to the Trump Administration’s efforts to arrest illegal immigrants in Alaska’s largest city. In a July 10...

Boeing work instructions were inadequate for years before blowout on Alaska flight, NTSB finds

Boeing work instructions were inadequate for years before blowout on Alaska flight, NTSB finds

FILE - This photo released by the National Transportation Safety Board shows a gaping hole where the paneled-over door had been at the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, Jan. 7, 2024, in Portland, Ore. The DOJ has launched a...

Fairbanks LGBTQ group raises money for toddler’s gender transition

Fairbanks LGBTQ group raises money for toddler’s gender transition

A radical LGBTQ activist group in Fairbanks is boasting about the fact that it successfully raised money so that the guardians of a young gender-confused boy could dress the child up like a girl to facilitate his so-called gender “transition.”...

Empire Archives: Juneau’s history for the week ending July 12

Empire Archives: Juneau’s history for the week ending July 12

Empire Archives is a series printed every Saturday featuring a short compilation of headline stories in the Juneau Empire from archived editions in 1985, 1995, and 2005. The stories include names, AP style, and other content of their eras. This...

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