Gov. Mike Dunleavy points to 2025 NAEP 4th grade reading test scores, where Alaska students ranked 51st in the nation. (Photo by Corinne Smith/Alaska Beacon). Alaska’s public school test scores ...

Alaska Natives-Mineral Debate Gloria Simeon, co-founder of the Mother Kuskokwim Tribal Coalition, speaks during an interview outside her smokehouse in Bethel, Alaska ...

Alaska Republican U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (Alaska Beacon file photos) The U.S. Senate voted to start debate on a wide-ranging bill that includes a series of last-minute changes that ...

Nick Begich, Republican candidate for U.S. House, speaks during a Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024 debate in Kodiak. At center is Alaskan Independence Party candidate John Wayne Howe, and at right is Rep. Mary ...

The top two candidates for Alaska's only U.S. House Seat debated three times over three days in mid-October, including in Alaska Public Media's Debate for the State. How did incumbent Democrat Mary ...

Alaska’s public school test scores remaining near the bottom of the nation have turbo-charged the political debate in the Legislature over school funding. Gov. Mike Dunleavy addressed Alaska’s “report ...

BETHEL, Alaska (AP) — Fish camps still dot the banks of the broad Kuskokwim River in southwestern Alaska. Wooden huts and tarped shelters stand beside drying racks draped with bright red strips of ...

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BETHEL, Alaska (AP) — When Alaska Natives debate proposals to drill, mine or otherwise develop the landscape of the nation’s largest state, it involves more than an environmental or economic question.

BETHEL, Alaska – Fish camps still dot the banks of the broad Kuskokwim River in southwestern Alaska. Wooden huts and tarped shelters stand beside drying racks draped with bright red strips of salmon, ...