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- Helpers in the Alaska National Guard's Operation Santa Claus board a cargo plane at Joint Base Elmendorf-Anchorage on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, for a flight to Nuiqsut, Alaska. The guard's outreach program attempts to bring Santa and Mrs. Claus and gifts to children in two or three Alaska Native villages each year. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
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Santa visit brings joy to a frosty Alaska Inupiat village
By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press
Fri,12/09/22-12:15AM , 821 Reads
NUIQSUT, Alaska (AP) — Though the weather outside was frightful, schoolchildren in the northern Alaska Inupiat community of Nuiqsut were so delighted for a visit by Santa that they braved wind chills of 25 degrees below zero just to see him land on a snow-covered airstrip.
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- U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican seeking re-election, answers a question during a candidate forum, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022, in Anchorage, Alaska. She faces Republican Kelly Tshibaka and Democrat Pat Chesbro in the Nov. 8, 2022, election. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
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Alaska asylum seekers are Indigenous Siberians from Russia
By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press
Sun,10/23/22-12:24AM , 702 Reads
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two Russian Indigenous Siberians were so scared of having to fight the war in Ukraine, they chanced everything to take a small boat across the treacherous Bering Sea to reach American soil, Alaska’s senior U.S. senator said after talking with the two.
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- Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks to reporters during a news conference at the state Capitol on April 28, 2022, in Juneau, Alaska. Nearly every single Alaskan got a financial windfall amounting to more than $3,000 on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022, the day the state began distributing payments from Alaska's investment fund that has been seeded with money from the state's oil riches. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, File)
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Alaskans pocket over $3,000 in annual oil-wealth payments
By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press
Tue,09/20/22-5:34PM , 526 Reads
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Nearly every single Alaskan got a financial windfall amounting to more than $3,000 Tuesday, the day the state began distributing payments from Alaska’s investment fund that has been seeded with money from the state’s oil riches.
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- In this image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, an aerial view taken during a search and rescue and damage assessment in Deering, Alaska, shows the damage caused by Typhoon Merbok, on Sept. 18, 2022. Authorities are making contact with some of the most remote villages in the United States to determine the need for food and water and assess damage from a massive weekend storm that flooded communities dotting Alaska's vast western coast. (Petty Officer 3rd Class Ian Gray/U.S. Coast Guard via AP)
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Damage assessments begin in flooded remote Alaska villages
By MARK THIESSEN - Associted Press
Mon,09/19/22-3:51PM , 804 Reads
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Authorities in Alaska were making contact Monday with some of the most remote villages in the United States to determine their food and water needs, as well as assess the damage after a massive storm flooded communities on the state's vast western coast this weekend.
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