If passed, Alaska would join more than 40 other states in a shared licensing process. The aim is to address the state’s nursing shortage, but nurse unions are pushing back.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 14—The Alaska Department of Health is racing to award $272 million by October through a newly created federal program meant ...

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As a librarian working in rural Alaska, I see firsthand every day how heavily people rely on the library for many things beyond just books. Alaska is a large and rural state with many small libraries ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 15—At an Anchorage convention on a new rural health program that will send Alaska hundreds of millions of federal dollars, a ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Alaska received the nation’s second-highest rural healthcare award, but keeping the more than $1 billion reward requires legislative action which Senate President Gary ...

On August 20, 2025, in United States v. Alaska No. 24‑2251, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the federal government’s authority to create a rural subsistence fishing priority in navigable waters on federal ...

245 public broadcasting grantees in rural communities — including 27 stations in Alaska — are at risk of going off the air. UNALASKA — As senators gathered at the Capitol last month to debate ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — For many Americans, ...