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Troopers find missing hunter near Tanana after weather grounded search a day
Alaska Wildlife Troopers found a missing hunter near Tanana on Wednesday after weather grounded the search a day earlier. He declined medical treatment and returned to camp.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Seventeen foreclosed Fairbanks properties sold, 25 drew no bid
Fairbanks sold 17 tax-foreclosed properties last month. One of them, assessed at $146,019, went for $12,120 — a hundred dollars over the minimum.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Alaska draws 50 people a year off a disability waitlist that has passed 800
Alaska was ordered to eliminate the waitlist for home-based disability care four years ago. Providers say it has roughly doubled since then.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Tanana has a health center again, 44 years after its hospital closed
Forty-four years after its hospital closed, Tanana has a new health center with a lab, pharmacy, radiology and a two-bay morgue, in a village of about 230.
by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 1mo ago2 min read
Victor Joseph receives a national tribal health advocacy award
Victor Joseph, the Tanana Chiefs Conference's top administrator, received the National Indian Health Board's inaugural Sovereignty in Action Award for advocacy.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Tanana's rebuilt village clinic has opened
Tanana's village health clinic has reopened after a tribe-led rehabilitation of a building that needed structural repair, one of nearly 40 clinics TCC runs in the Interior.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
Tribes objected to a federal rollback of Native welfare rules. HHS did it anyway.
HHS is cutting federal rules governing Native welfare-to-work programs run by Alaska's tribal nonprofits — over objections from tribal organizations that said they weren't properly consulted, and that called it a sovereignty concern.
by Alaska News2mo ago2 min read
The water rights Alaska Natives can't claim
Murkowski chairs Wednesday's hearing on five tribal water settlements, none in Alaska. ANCSA extinguished the rights that make such deals possible for Alaska Natives.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
A village's water grant score can hinge on whether the clerk took a class
A free state course Aug. 3–11 can boost a village's water and sewer grant scores — clerk training counts for up to 40% of project points. Sign up by July 31.
by Alaska News2mo ago1 min read
Fairbanks landowners can claim 50% reimbursement for salmon habitat
Fairbanks-area landowners can get 50 percent reimbursement for streambank fixes that help salmon habitat on Chena, Salcha, Tanana, and other Tanana Watershed streams. Proposals due July 14.
by Maggie AlaskaNews4mo ago2 min read