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Jamiann S’eiltin Hasselquist sprays water on a neglected gravesite near Lawson Creek on Douglas Island, Juneau, on June 17, 2022. Hasselquist and other volunteers have been working for over a year unearthing and restoring gravesites in the area.

Neglected and forgotten: Volunteers work to restore Native gravesites in Juneau

By Lisa Phu - July 5, 2022

Cook Inlet is viewed from the Kenai shoreline on Aug. 14, 2018. Redoubt Volcano looms in the distance. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)

Biden adminstration offshore oil plan envisions a single Cook Inlet sale

By Yereth Rosen - July 4, 2022

A smoke column rises during the Bear Creek Fire No. 4 in June 2012. (Photo by Freddie R. Olin IV)

What it means to be an Alaska wildland firefighter

By Freddie R. Olin IV - July 2, 2022

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Seeking efficiency, Alaska breaks its health agency into two new departments

BY Lisa Phu and James Brooks - July 1, 2022

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Alaska wildfires and their smoke force closures, cancellations and evacuations

BY Yereth Rosen - July 1, 2022

Democratic governors call on Biden to use federal facilities for abortion access

BY Jacob Fischler - July 1, 2022

When the temperature hits 70, Alaskans feel the heat — and start suffering health ills

BY Yereth Rosen - July 1, 2022

Alaska ends fiscal year with first budget surplus in a decade

BY James Brooks - June 30, 2022

History made: Ketanji Brown Jackson sworn in as U.S. Supreme Court justice

BY Jacob Fischler - June 30, 2022

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Alaska should protect natural resources while allowing sustainable, reasonable utilization

BY Katie Rooks - June 30, 2022

Why Alaska lawmakers are calling it quits

BY Sarah Erkmann Ward - June 29, 2022

The Biden administration said insurers must cover home COVID tests. It didn’t say how.

BY Audrey Dutton - June 28, 2022

What would it mean to codify Roe into law – and is there any chance of that happening?

BY Linda C. McClain - June 27, 2022

Alaska’s per-capita alcohol consumption dropped in 2020 — but tourism losses may be at play

BY Yereth Rosen - June 30, 2022

Trump to visit Anchorage July 9, will hold rally to support Republican candidates

BY James Brooks - June 29, 2022

Fishing-gear entanglements of whales increased in Alaska, NOAA report says

BY Yereth Rosen - June 29, 2022

Dennis Egan dead at age 75 after long career in Juneau

BY James Brooks - June 28, 2022

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ROMEOVILLE, ILLINOIS - FEBRUARY 01: Smoke rises from a coal-fired power plant on February 01, 2019 in Romeoville, Illinois. The recent polar vortex taxed power systems across the Midwest as demand for electricity climbed as temperatures plunged. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

UPDATED U.S. Supreme Court curbs federal power to regulate greenhouse gases, in blow to Biden

By Jacob Fischler - June 30, 2022

Anchorage state House candidate prepares for election and a felony trial

By James Brooks - June 30, 2022

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 28: The Guardian or Authority of Law, created by sculptor James Earle Fraser, rests on the side of the U.S. Supreme Court on September 28, 2020 in Washington, DC. This week Seventh U.S. Circuit Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett, U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, will begin meeting with Senators as she seeks to be confirmed before the presidential election. (Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images)

U.S. Supreme Court ruling expands states’ authority to prosecute crimes on tribal land

By Keith Schubert - June 29, 2022

Sally Monserud Hall, seen on June 28, 2022, is on the west quad of the University of Alaska Anchorage campus.

College of Health building renovation aims to increase number of grads, address worker shortage

By Lisa Phu - June 29, 2022

Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks at a June 28 press conference in Anchorage on this Fiscal 2023 budget to go into effect on July 1. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)

Spending rises, but so does savings, in new Alaska state budget signed by Dunleavy

By James Brooks - June 28, 2022

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 28: Cassidy Hutchinson, a top former aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testifies during the sixth hearing by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Cannon House Office Building on June 28, 2022 in Washington, DC. The bipartisan committee, which has been gathering evidence for almost a year related to the January 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol, is presenting its findings in a series of televised hearings. On January 6, 2021, supporters of former President Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol Building during an attempt to disrupt a congressional vote to confirm the electoral college win for President Joe Biden. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Trump had to be physically restrained from joining Jan. 6 mob, House panel told

By Jacob Fischler - June 28, 2022

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 24: Xavier Becerra, nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, testifies at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill February 24, 2021 in Washington, DC. If confirmed, Becerra would be the first Latino secretary of HHS. He was previously Attorney General of California. (Photo by Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

U.S. HHS chief vows to protect abortion access, but says much depends on states