Jenna Kunze

Kindergarten teacher Carla Jenner helps a student with her backpack on Monday morning, October 31, 2022 at Nunaka Valley Elementary in Anchorage. (Loren Holmes / ADN)

Nunaka Valley and Lake Hood will be closed after this school year, while Baxter and Fire Lake were saved for at least another year.

The Dark Daze music festival on Friday and Saturday hopes to attract alternative music lovers of all ages for a sober celebration centered on music — and community — that splits from the mainstream.

People are beginning to flock to the recently completed Snow Ella created by Anchorage Trolley Tours in a lot off Whitney Road in the Ship Creek industrial area.

Starring, or the Russian Orthodox version of Christmas caroling, is a fondly remembered tradition for many from Alaska Native villages.

The resident is undergoing treatment in Anchorage for the highly contagious virus. Meanwhile, state health officials are tracking down “several dozen” individuals the patient was in contact with while contagious.

By plane, car, mail and personal luggage, these ingredients arrive to local restaurants and storefronts at all costs.

Immigration lawyers say knowledge is power amid a changing administration and uncertain future for many noncitizens.

Twenty-two refugees, and hundreds more in the pipeline, were told last week that their previously approved relocation to Alaska has been suspended, perhaps indefinitely.