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The store in Stebbins is struggling to keep food and other supplies in stock. Photographed Feb. 23, 2023. (Photo by Daisy Katcheak) It’s been nearly six months since the Alaska Division of ...
A local advocacy group gathered more than 2,700 signatures for each proposition within the city clerk's office’s extended ...
Anchorage is Alaska's biggest city, with nearly 300,000 residents, but it is also bear country. Tents are shown Wednesday, July 6, 2022, inside Centennial Park in Anchorage, Alaska. Mark Thiessen / AP ...
"People are struggling and having to make choices of getting food or getting heating fuel," said Daisy Lockwood Katcheak, city administrator in Stebbins, an Alaska Native village of 634 people ...
The aftermath of a deadly landslide is seen in Ketchikan, Alaska, on Sunday, August 25, 2024. The governor, borough mayor and city mayor have all issued emergency declarations.
“I discovered the strangest city in Alaska,” Delventhal says in her TikTok video. “This is Whittier, a city where the population lives under one roof. Not only that, they don’t even have ...
Alaska City Declares Disaster as Landslides Strike. Story by Lilith Foster-Collins ... Last week, foods in the indigenous Yup'ik village of Napakiak saw water levels rise over 3 feet, ...
Alaska’s SNAP failures highlight national struggles with food assistance By October 2024, only 72% of initial applications were processed on time ...
Commentary authors Rachel Lord and Bobbi Mixom write that Alaska’s food producers and vulnerable families need meaningful ...
EAGLE RIVER, Alaska (AP) — Thousands of Alaskans who depend on government assistance have waited months for food stamp benefits, exacerbating a long-standing hunger crisis worsened by the ...
Feb. 26—It's been nearly six months since the Alaska Division of Public Assistance first began to fall behind on processing federal food stamp applications, leaving thousands of Alaskans still ...