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With a central news room in Anchorage and contributing reporters spread across the state, Alaska Statewide News captures the voices of Alaska and shares it with the world. Tune in to your local public radio station in Alaska, visit us online at ALASKAPUBLIC.ORG or subscribe to the Alaska News podcast right here. These are individual news stories, most of which appear in Alaska News Nightly (available as a separate podcast).

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Federal report shows sudden wind shift before May 2019 floatplane crash near Metlakatla

Anchorage police report declining violent crime and property crime in 2020

Beloved Tuluksak musher dies of COVID-19

Hilcorp eyes gas exploration near Anchor Point

Regional subsistence councils hamstrung by stalled appointments

As planet warms, researchers project more ‘extreme’ rainfall in Southeast and Western Alaska

US Forest Service mismanaged Tongass timber sales, report says

Without justice in Nome, women wrestle with trauma and healing after sexual assault

New ferries will stay tied to the dock under Alaska Marine Highway’s ‘skeletal’ summer schedule proposal

After more than half of Bethel students fail their classes, some parents urge reopening schools

Northwest Alaska health provider cleared to serve seal oil to elders

In Nome, few sexual assault crimes result in prosecutions

Feds investigate: Does Alaska lock up too many kids with behavioral health issues?

Water donations trickle into Tuluksak but may not be enough for village in crisis

Investigation blames U.S. Forest Service for giving Alaska grant used for Roadless Rule fight

In last-minute move, Trump administration removes nearly 475k acres from ANWR oil lease sale

As groups clamor for vaccine, here’s how Alaska will decide who’s next in line

Project Togo underway with nearly three times the COVID-19 vaccine doses expected for Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta

The 2021 Iditarod sled dog race is still on, but will end in Willow

Rep. Lance Pruitt violated campaign finance laws, watchdog finds

Coastal lawmakers criticize Dunleavy’s ferry budget proposal

Russian Mission post office closure threatens infant formula supplies

Gwich’in, conservation groups ask court to block ANWR oil leasing

Class-action lawsuit claims company misled shareholders on Pebble Mine

Across the ocean in Anchorage’s sister cities, pandemic life feels both different and the same

Beloved historian and UAF professor Terrence Cole dies at 67

The first COVID-19 vaccine shipment has arrived in Alaska; shots could start Tuesday

Trump administration may hire private ship to fill Arctic ‘icebreaker gap’ by year’s end

Project Togo: “Light on the horizon” as Y-K Delta plans first distribution of COVID-19 vaccine

Dunleavy pitches budget that draws billions from Permanent Fund earnings next year

With new storefront, Mountain View’s ‘candy lady’ takes sweets seriously

Residents rally to free entangled humpback near Tenakee Springs

Once again, Arctic Report Card says abnormal the new normal

Hope, hesitancy as first vaccine shipments grow near for Alaska

LISTEN: As Alaska’s COVID-19 count spikes, contact tracers bear the strain

Alaska Indigenous theater production transforms classic holiday tale in ‘Tlingit Christmas Carol’

‘Pretty much sums up 2020’: Wrangell makes do with anonymous holiday tree installation

Officials call off search for 2 Haines residents missing in landslide

Federal court rejects approval for Hilcorp’s Liberty Project

Trump administration to auction oil drilling rights in all federal lands of ANWR coastal plain

More Haines residents prepared to evacuate as weather deteriorates

Residents remember Kwethluk elder Sam Jackson Sr.

LISTEN: Haines resident describes rescue after landslide hits neighbors’ houses

In Haines, clean-up and search efforts happen in brief good-weather window

Search and rescue teams in Haines still hopeful they’ll find missing residents alive

Alaska officials say hackers stole voter info, didn’t compromise election integrity

Unalaska enters 2-week ‘hunker down’

Evacuations and several missing after rains prompt large landslide in Haines

As pandemic worsens, 40,000 Alaskans endure “inexcusable” wait for relief

Facility test reveals more than half of Goose Creek inmates have been infected with COVID-19