07/10/11 If Alaska's Native languages vanish in the next generation, it won't be because people didn't try hard to keep them alive, says Gary Holton.
06/07/11 Gently, with a voice at once teasing, but also deadly serious, Alaska Native performing artist Gene Tagaban urged his listeners in the Dillingham High School gymnasium to step out of their comfort zone and be willing to play.
06/04/11 The fledgling Native Arts and Cultures Foundation held its spring board meeting in Anchorage in late May. Established to assist Native American artists and cultural organizations, the Vancouver, Wash.-based group presented its first grants in 2010.
05/18/11 They're just three artists from a list of 31 who took home a piece of Rasmuson Foundation generosity on Wednesday totaling almost a quarter of a million dollars.
05/18/11 Artist Ray Troll of Ketchikan, widely known for his quirky, colorful, fish-themed T-shirts and posters, received the 2011 Rasmuson Distinguished Artist Award at ceremonies in Anchorage today.
05/18/11 He may be best known for his fishy images on T-shirts, and popular books and publications on aquatic life, but Ketchikan Artist Ray Troll joined an elite group of Alaska artists today by receiving the 2011 Rasmuson Foundation Distinguished Artist Award. Troll is the eighth Alaskan artist to receive the award, which was announced at a morning ceremony in Anchorage. The Distinguished Artist Award ...
12/11/10 For the three seasons leading up to his senior year, East High wrestler Mathew Malnoske practiced with and took lessons from his older teammate, Nathan Hoffer. Each of those seasons resulted in a Class 4A state title for Malnoske.
07/29/10 While most people are focused on next year's 50th anniversary of the World Eskimo-Indian Olympics, some athletes have their sights set on 2061
07/15/10 As many as nine young people from Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta villages have killed themselves over the past two months, Alaska State Troopers say.
01/12/10 Some Bush communities will get 4G technology -- just now becoming available in the Lower 48 -- by the end of next year, thanks to a $25 million federal stimulus grant.
01/06/10 For four Alaska air services, change has been in the works for several years now, but this month it all takes flight under a new name: Era Alaska.
10/24/09 The tundra of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta is studded with botanical gifts: plump, dark crowberries, hot-pink fireweed, wormwood plants and blackberries found in the region have all been used for kitchen-made balms and salves by the Native people who have inhabited the area for thousands of years.
10/16/09 Young Alaska Natives from small rural communities are showing they can excel in advanced university engineering and science programs, overcoming the handicaps of scarce resources in village schools.
09/13/09 Juneau's Leah Francis finally came north for a cross- country race Saturday and delivered a powerful message to the rest of the state's runners: She hasn't slowed down.
08/08/09 Sculptor/carver/artist Franklin Matchian, originally from Chevak, now living in Anchorage, made the news some years ago when he discovered an ivory point incongruously embedded in a piece of ancient whalebone that he was carving. The piece was shown to experts and carbon dated, leading to the conclusion that the whale had been harpooned -- and escaped and survived -- hundreds of years ago.
08/08/09 Reisdorfer, a native of Adrian, has made a career in the Navy. For more than a year she worked on coordinating the 2009 Operation Arctic Care (AC09) operation. | 
