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PALMER, Alaska — In what appears to be a first for Alaska, transgender students in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District are now banned from using bathrooms and changing facilities that match their gender identity.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola received a hero’s welcome Thursday when the first Alaska Native to serve in Congress gave the keynote address at the Alaska Federation of Natives conference in Anchorage

Authorities close snow crab season for first time as numbers of the prized seafood crash from 11bn to 2bn in four years

Most Americans are used to casting their ballot for a single person for each office

Experts fear the likely causes include increased predation and stresses from warming water.

Causes being researched but likely included increased predation and stresses from warmer water

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Ben Stevens, a former Alaska Senate president and a son of the late U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, has died

SAN DIEGO — Groundbreaking composer Lei Liang has never been to the Arctic or to its Chukchi Sea, which sits between Alaska and Siberia. But that imposing 240,000-square-mile body of water's beneath-the-surface sounds not only inspired his provocative new work, "Six Seasons," they are an intrinsic and very audible part…

Incumbent Rep. Mary Peltola (D), Nicholas Begich III (R), Sarah Palin (R), and Chris Bye (L) are running for Alaska’s at-large congressional district on Nov. 8, 2022. Peltola, Begich, Palin, and Tara Sweeney (R) advanced from the Aug. 16, 2022, top-four primary. Sweeney withdrew, meaning Bye, the fifth-place finisher, advanced.

It was 1987 when the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, made Larry Csonka one of its own. He had grown up on a farm a half hour north in Stow, Ohio, one of six kids in a Hungarian family of modest means. They made their own butter.…