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November 11, 2023
(RNS) — A Native Alaskan midwife known for her healing love, especially toward abused women, has become the first female Orthodox Christian saint from North America after she was glorified at a meeting of bishops of the Orthodox Church in America in Chicago this week.
November 11, 2023
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, has been named the city with the highest cancer rates in the state. According to the State Cancer Profiles website,
November 9, 2023
On the 2nd of June 1990, a Boeing 737–200 on its way to pick up passengers stranded in the remote Alaskan village of Unalakleet descended into terrain on final approach, colliding with a barren…
November 7, 2023
On the 2nd of June 1990, a Boeing 737–200 on its way to pick up passengers stranded in the remote Alaskan village of Unalakleet descended into terrain on final approach, colliding with a barren…
October 24, 2023
Nearly two decades after the Exxon Valdez ran around on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, the U.S. Supreme Court has taught Exxon (now ExxonMobil) and corporations everywhere a lesson: Don't pay off legal judgments. Stall, stall, stall for 19 years. Courts have held that Exxon must pay $2.5 billion in punitive damages for spilling…
October 20, 2023
Subsistence fishing is being threatened and some Alaskans in rural parts of the state are facing all in an effort feed their families.
October 16, 2023
Michigan’s population is less healthy than the national average, ranking below most other states, including its Midwestern neighbors, in premature death rates, infant mortality rates and access to health care.
October 11, 2023
Russia sold Alaska to the United States in 1867 for $7.2 million, and 92 years later, it became the 49th state.
October 11, 2023
Russia sold Alaska to the United States in 1867 for $7.2 million, and 92 years later, it became the 49th state.
October 9, 2023
Indigenous Peoples’ Day, holiday in the United States that takes place on the second Monday of October. The day honors the Indigenous peoples of the United States—American Indians, Native Alaskans, and Native Hawaiians, most of whom were violently uprooted and exploited beginning with the arrival