Hometown, Alaska: Federal Spending in Alaska
According to a University of Alaska study, 40% of Alaskan’s personal income comes directly or indirectly from federal spending, and more than a third...
Hometown, Alaska: Annual Yearly Progress Reports
September is back to school month, and students are settling into their routine. Many are setting future goals for after graduation, but how many...
Hometown, Alaska: Denali KidCare
Denali KidCare is how Alaska ensures that the health needs of kids and teens under age 18 are met, and those of pregnant mothers...
Hometown, Alaska: Volunteerism
September 11th has been declared the National Day of Service - a day to adopt a charity, or do a good deed. We’re...
Hometown, Alaska: The Great Death
The epidemics that swept through Alaska Native villages in the early 20th century are among the most tragic and least known events in Alaska...
Hometown, Alaska: The Alaska State Fair
The Guinness World Record breaking 125.9 pound cabbage from the cabbage weigh-off at the Alaska State Fair in 2009.
Giant cabbages. Homemade quilts and hand...
Hometown, Alaska: Ballot Measure 2
On the next Hometown, Alaska, we will be discussing the contentious ballot measure two, a bill that would make it mandatory for minors seeking...
Hometown, Alaska: Ballot Measure 1
Do you know enough to vote?
Proponents call it the Anti-Corruption Act. Opponents call it an attack on free speech and capable of shutting down...
Hometown, Alaska: Youth Spending Their Vacations Serving the Community
College and high school students look forward to the summer break to get a respite from the study grind. But these days, ...
Hometown, Alaska: The Alaskan Alternative Circus
Jumping tigers, sprinting elephants, enormous tents, peanuts, zebras and clowns. Well, those might not be the things you’ll see when you go to a...
Hometown, Alaska: The Mat-Su Colonists, 75 years later
The colonists used the train for eating and social events even after they had arrived and set up their tent city. Here they gather...
Hometown, Alaska: Alaska's college baseball playoffs attract big league scouts
The times they are a 'changing fast, but one thing stays the same - the crack of the bat against a leatherbound ball, and...
Hometown, Alaska: Combating Sexual Assault in Alaska
For years, Alaskans have battled alarming rates of reported rapes and sexual assaults. Task forces have been formed, reports have been filed and still,...
Hometown, Alaska: The Human Toll of the Gulf Oil Spill
Photo courtesy NOAA: Workers replacing oiled pom-pons with clean ones along a beach in Louisiana.
Alaskans are 21 years out from the Exxon Valdez,...
Hometown, Alaska: Public Transportation
The Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is sharpening the public focus on energy efficient living. The use of public transportation is...
Hometown, Alaska: Good Summertime Reads
Let Hometown Alaska help you develop your summer reading list. Authors Dana Stabenow and Heather Lende, and poet and bookstore owner David Cheezem, will...
Hometown, Alaska: Beekeeping in Alaska
There are beekeepers all over the state, and this is the time of year they take off the box covers and get buzzing. But,...
Hometown, Alaska: Homegrown Tomatoes and Other Veggies
Tall cold frame used by Red Edge Design to grow tomatoes in. It is made of all recycled materials. Photo courtesy of...
Hometown, Alaska: Cooking it Right
Summer is around the bend and dinner parties, BBQs and potlucks are on just about everybody’s calendar. Unfortunately that usually means lowering our...
Hometown, Alaska: Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Awards
Recipient of the Distinguished Artist Award, John Luther Adams speaking at the May 18 individual artist awards event. Photo is courtesy of the Rasmuson...