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The view from the front of the school in in Wales, Alaska, where a 24-year-old woman and her 1-year-old son were killed in an encounter with a polar bear on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023, is seen in this photo taken on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023, by Chrissy Friberg, a traveling optician who was providing services in the village. (Chrissy Friberg via AP)

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Polar bear emerged unseen from snowstorm to kill mom, son
By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press
Thu,01/19/23-5:16PM , 54 Reads
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Summer Myomick bundled her baby against the freezing winds whipping off the Bering Sea and stepped outside into a blur of blowing snow.
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Fredrick Brower, center, helps cut up a bowhead whale caught by Inupiat subsistence hunters on a field near Barrow, Alaska, Oc. 7, 2014. After tidal surges and high winds from the remnants of a rare typhoon caused extensive flood damage to homes along Alaska's western coast in September, the U.S. government stepped in to help residents largely Alaska Natives repair property damage. Residents who opened Federal Emergency Management Agency brochures expecting to find instructions on how to file for aid in Alaska Native languages like Yup'ik or Inupiaq instead were reading nonsensical phrases. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull,File)

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FEMA fires group for nonsensical Alaska Native translations
By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press
Fri,01/13/23-12:14AM , 57 Reads
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — After tidal surges and high winds from the remnants of a rare typhoon caused extensive damage to homes along Alaska’s western coast in September, the U.S. government stepped in to help residents — largely Alaska Natives — repair property damage.
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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 , 80 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 , 162 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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