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How a raid in SC freeing 700 slaves became a Pulitzer Prize-winning book
The nation’s last slaves weren’t freed until two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, on June 19, 1865, known as ...
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UAA’s College of Health empowers Alaska’s future, one nurse at a time
UAA Provost Denise Runge writes in a commentary about the impact of the UAA College of Health School of Nursing.
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The big, the bad and the ugly, even for Alaskans
Kate Troll writes in a commentary that 63,000 Alaskans would be at risk of losing a quarter of their SNAP benefits under the ...
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Four new bills become law in Alaska, two with governor’s signature
One bill expands the time that some Permanent Fund dividend recipients may spend out of state without becoming ineligible.
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In Canada’s ‘Silicon Valley’ of mining, speculators power a hunt for Alaska’s minerals
Roundup has a focus on the geology of western North America, making it an especially big deal for companies with mining ...
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A national quest for uranium comes to remote Western Alaska, raising fears in a nearby village
Prospectors have long suspected the Seward Peninsula could hold vast stores of uranium essential to nuclear energy and weapons.
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Federal land sales, more logging and more oil revenue: What’s in the big federal bill for Alaska?
Members of the U.S. Senate last week proposed a major sale of federal land as part of the “Big, Beautiful Bill” proposed by Republicans to fund the U.S. government. If adopted, the proposed sale could ...