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Responding to Disaster in Alaska’s Remote Arctic Villages

Strong floodwaters can uproot buildings and the infrastructure first responders need to reach victims. But what if there are no roads in the first place? Typhoon Halong struck the west coast of Alaska ...
fox13now

Pharmacists use planes, dogsleds and snowmobiles to deliver vaccines to Alaska's remote villages

FAIRBANKS, Ak. — To understand life in the farthest corners of America, you have to see it: the beauty of nature, the rugged, unforgiving cold, and the people of Alaska. It’s the people across a state ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Census officials work to count every person in Alaska's most remote places

The next major U.S. national census is in 2030, but this year, the Census Bureau will conduct field tests to try to come up ...
Yahoo

Photos of the aftermath of devastating floods in remote Alaska Native villages

KWIGILLINGOK, Alaska (AP) — Uncertainty looms over the future of remote Alaska Native villages devastated by the remnants of Typhoon Halong last month. Some evacuees express doubts about ever ...
The Daily Gazette

Crews are working to fix Alaska Native villages devastated by flooding. But will residents return?

KWIGILLINGOK, Alaska (AP) — Darrel John watched the final evacuees depart his village on the western coast of Alaska in helicopters and small planes and walked home, avoiding the debris piled on the ...