Tanana Chiefs Conference

After 120 days at 40 below, Rampart's tribal council outfitted every household, chief says

After 120 straight days at 40 below, Rampart's tribal council bought chainsaws, freezers and more for every household, Chief Dawn Newman told a TCC summit.

by Maggie AlaskaNews1d ago2 min read

Fifteen Alaska tribal recipients get about $4.4 million for crime victim services

Fifteen Alaska tribes and Native-serving groups, from Utqiaġvik to Sitka, got about $4.4 million in federal money for crime victim services over five years.

by Maggie AlaskaNews1d ago2 min readFrom Oct 29

Tanana Chiefs plans advocacy workshop as Board of Game takes up Ambler Road hunting

Tanana Chiefs Conference will hold an advocacy workshop Nov. 20, the day the Board of Game takes up an Ambler Road hunting closure TCC wanted five times wider.

by Maggie AlaskaNews5d ago2 min read

Tanana Chiefs' public safety manager named state VPSO coordinator of the year

Tanana Chiefs Conference's public safety manager was named the state's VPSO program coordinator of the year, and three TCC colleagues were commended.

by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min read

Alaska Gateway School District and Upper Tanana slated to sign agreement Nov. 13

Alaska Gateway School District and the Upper Tanana region plan to sign an agreement Nov. 13 at TCC's Fall Summit. The agenda doesn't say what it covers.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read

Fort Yukon says manganese and iron have made its water brown and unsafe for infants

Fort Yukon told the state manganese and iron have turned its water brown and unsafe for infants for over a month. Tanana Chiefs sent 24 cases of bottled water.

by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read

Three governor candidates lay out rural energy and subsistence plans at Tanana Chiefs forum

Three governor candidates pitched rural energy and subsistence fixes at a Tanana Chiefs forum. • Kreiss-Tomkins vowed to protect PCE funding and drop federal subsistence lawsuits. • Taylor pushed a constitutional amendment for state fish and game control. • Bronson proposed river roads like Fairbanks to Galena to cut costs.

by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

House District 36 candidates back trawling limits at Tanana Chiefs forum

Rep. Rebecca Schwanke and challenger Crystal Jones both called for limits on trawling at a Tanana Chiefs Conference forum, and laid out ways to cut rural costs.

by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read

Fairbanks voters decide tax cap, election date and hand-count initiatives Tuesday

Fairbanks votes Tuesday on locking in its tax cap, moving elections to November and counting every ballot by hand. Six local seats are up, too.

by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago3 min read

Alaska Native tribes begin five-year youth suicide prevention programs

Ten Alaska Native tribes and health organizations begin five-year youth suicide prevention programs next week, sharing about $4.1 million in federal money.

by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Federal board extends FM1106 subsistence moose hunt by two days

Federal officials added two days to a Copper Basin moose hunt and closed 1,300 square miles of Interior river corridors to outside hunters. One group objects.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Crews dig out buried hotspot near Tok home as Mukluk Fire hits 70% containment

Weeks after the Mukluk Fire, crews dug a still-smoldering log out of the ground near a Tok home, and fire managers expect more buried heat.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Follows: Mukluk Fire evacuation order shrinks to properties inside the burn near Tok

Four Yukon villages get money for broadband design, not construction

Four Yukon River villages are getting broadband drawings, not broadband. The trunk line they would connect to is now 17 months behind schedule.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Fiber easement for four Koyukuk River villages grows to 96 acres, and comments close Oct. 12

Tanana Chiefs Conference expanded a fiber optic easement to 96 acres to bring high-speed internet to four Koyukuk River villages, with public comments due Oct. 12.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Nine EPA climate grants for Alaska projects ended with 99 percent of $151 million unspent

$151 million in federal climate grants for Alaska tribes ended with less than 1% spent. One $20 million award was terminated the same day it was signed.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago3 min read

Tanana Chiefs say up to 45% of dementia may be prevented or delayed

Tanana Chiefs Conference says 45% of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by addressing 14 risk factors, from hearing loss to exercise and vaccines.

by Alaska News2mo ago1 min readFrom Sep 2

Tanana Chiefs holds first culture camp for K-6 students

Tanana Chiefs Conference held its first culture camp for K-6 students in Fairbanks, teaching Athabascan languages, potlatch dancing and traditional skills, with plans to repeat annually.

by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago2 min read

Koyukon elder ties Galena swallow decline to Air Force mosquito spraying in TCC bird booklet

Elder Benedict Jones links Galena's 89 percent swallow decline since 1970 to Air Force pesticide spraying, documented in a Koyukon bird knowledge booklet published by the Tanana Chiefs Conference.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

TCC will hold a November summit on what villages told it this summer

Tanana Chiefs Conference will hold a November summit on priorities its chief gathered during summer visits to seven Interior villages.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 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 AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Before you head out this fall, tell someone where you are going

Leave a trip plan before you head out, Tanana Chiefs Conference says. Volunteer crews searching 235,000 square miles need to know where to look.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Interior Alaska's tribal health system is recording patient visits with AI

Tanana Chiefs Conference clinics are recording patient visits with an AI scribe. Patients can say no, and TCC says the recordings are deleted after 90 days.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo 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 2mo ago2 min read

More than 200 turn out in Fairbanks to question Alaska's governor candidates

More than 200 people turned out in Fairbanks to grill Alaska's governor candidates at a nonpartisan Native Vote mixer ahead of the primary vote.

by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago1 min read

The Fortymile road hunt lasted 48 hours, exactly as predicted

The road-accessible Fortymile caribou hunt opened Aug. 20 and closed 48 hours later, exactly as the state biologist predicted before it began.

by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 2mo 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 AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

AFN holds a subsistence listening session in Fairbanks on Aug. 31

The Alaska Federation of Natives holds a subsistence listening session in Fairbanks on Aug. 31, gathering harvesters' and elders' input on the future of subsistence.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Tanana Chiefs wins federal grant for suicide prevention in 15 villages

Of 122 youth referred to Tanana Chiefs behavioral health last year, 76 were admitted. A new federal grant funds suicide prevention in 15 Interior villages.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

A declining Fortymile caribou herd, short hunts, and a dispute over timing

A declining Fortymile caribou herd has forced short, tightly capped hunts. Tribes say the state's timing this year cut into the federal subsistence priority.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Court says a tribe can't sue its health consortium in state court

The Alaska Supreme Court ruled Dot Lake Village can't sue the Tanana Chiefs Conference in state court — the health consortium has tribal sovereign immunity.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read

Tanana Chiefs benefits staff come to McGrath on Wednesday

Tanana Chiefs Conference benefits staff visit McGrath on Aug. 19 to meet families and explain programs for employment, cash assistance, and education in person.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Six graduate a Tanana Chiefs apprenticeship built to staff Interior clinics

Six apprentices finished Tanana Chiefs Conference's yearlong clinical training in Fairbanks — the first cohort where everyone who started made it through.

by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 3mo ago1 min read

A 675-mile snowmachine patrol reached nine Interior villages

Tanana Chiefs Conference officers ran a 675-mile snowmachine patrol across nine Interior villages, part of a push to extend law enforcement to remote Alaska.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

A war half a world away is about to freeze into rural Alaska's winter fuel bills

Rural Alaska buys a year of fuel in one summer barge delivery, so the Iran-driven price spike will lock into winter bills — with heating fuel hitting $15/gallon in some villages and the state's main subsidy covering none of it.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago4 min readFrom Jul 30

In Arctic Village, a growing race carries running, remembrance and recovery

Arctic Village's third annual John Fredson Day race drew its biggest turnout yet — 35 runners and walkers honoring loved ones, with one runner completing her first 10K in recovery and sobriety.

by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 3mo ago2 min read

Carved salmon fill a Fairbanks health center as the real Yukon run collapses

Artist Ramy Brooks has installed two Yukon fish-camp salmon sculptures at a Fairbanks health center — arriving as the real Yukon runs collapse and closures shut off fishing across the drainage.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read

K9 Jack retires at 5 after four years on Interior village patrols

K9 Jack is retiring at 5, early for a police dog, after four years and a long list of seizures across 39 Interior villages. A younger nose has the beat now.

by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 3mo ago1 min read

Four TCC employees selected for ANTHC leadership programs

Four Tanana Chiefs Conference employees selected for competitive nine-month leadership programs run by Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium to develop skills across tribal healthcare.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

PRC benefits cover hearing aids, vision care, and travel for eligible Noatak residents

Noatak residents can use Purchased/Referred Care to cover hearing aids and vision care, plus travel help for specialty referrals. • Must get prior authorization and submit bills quickly to avoid delays or uncovered costs.

by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 3mo ago1 min read

TCC seeks contractor for new Rampart health clinic, proposals due August 21

Tanana Chiefs Conference is seeking a general contractor to build a new health clinic in Rampart, with proposals due August 21 and construction expected to finish by the end of 2027.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read