The Supreme Court's stay, which allows the administration to execute the firings for now, while it litigates in federal court, does not mean the terminations were lawful.

NPR obtained emails that went out last week to leaders at health agencies offering to transfer them to postings in tribal communities. Officials close to Dr. Anthony Fauci got the offer.

The University of Alaska Anchorage recently announced it’s restructuring how its Native Student Services program functions, and some Alaska Native students are protesting the change. They worry the program will become less responsive to their specific needs.

Over the years, the community has gained a reputation for serving up high-energy performances in their Cama’i appearances. The current leader of Chevak Tanqik said he remembers it always being this way.

At an oversight hearing, Sen. Murkowski highlighted programs that fund tutoring, language initiatives, and post-secondary education opportunities for Native students.

Step dance is an African-American dance form involving stomping and clapping, which shook the Cama’i Dance Festival stage in Bethel with its unique percussion. In a workshop, the Anchorage-based Synergy Step team found a way to involve festival goers in an Alaska-flavored routine.

A group of Anchorage jurors was unable to come to a unanimous decision in a nearly six-year long homicide case. Superior Court Judge Thomas Matthews declared a mistrial Friday morning for a young man involved in a 2019 Unalaska car crash case. Following more than three days of deliberation and over a week in trial, 24-year-old Dustin Ruckman was not convicted for his involvement in the deaths of two Unalaska teen girls, but he also hasn’t been acquitted.

The fate of a young man behind the wheel in a fatal 2019 Unalaska car crash is now in the hands of an Anchorage jury. Dustin Ruckman, 24, faces two counts of criminally negligent homicide in the deaths of two Unalaska teen girls.

A 28-year-old fisherman was reported missing Friday in Unalaska. The City of Unalaska said in a press release that Jacob Riley Veeser was last seen at midnight on April 4 walking down the GI “dolphin” dock at the UniSea Inc. processing plant.

Attorneys are expected to give their closing arguments Monday for a case involving a fatal 2019 car crash on Unalaska’s Mount Ballyhoo. However, they will first have to hear whether or not the presiding judge believes there is enough evidence to support a conviction.