Education officials and advocates testified Monday to the high costs of teacher layoffs, budget uncertainty and difficulty of recruiting new educators to Alaska.

French was arrested Dec. 19 after a grand jury returned the two-count indictment, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Alaska said in a news release. He’d been on officials’ radar ...

JUNEAU — The Alaska Senate Education Committee on Wednesday advanced an amended school funding bill with a $1,000 increase to ...

The Spencer Expedition mapped the copper district of Alaska, and the first exploratory oil well was drilled in Cook Inlet. Twenty thousand gold prospectors arrived at Nome Beach. Alaska's capital ...

The superintendent of Alaska’s largest school district stressed the importance of an education bill in Juneau that he says ...

Lawmakers from both parties appear to agree: school funding should be increased. But by how much — and whether the bill that ...

The Dunleavy administration filed a motion in a federal case on Wednesday that could shut down a tribal gaming hall that opened in Anchorage in January. The Chin'an Gaming Hall, near the Birchwood ...

A tiny school system in the region, the Aleutians East Borough School District, educates 230 students across four schools. About 85% of the kids are Alaska Native. Traveling between the four ...

To graduate, Alaska high school students must earn at least 21 credits, including a half-credit in Alaska history. Students take the Alaska System of Academic Readiness assessment for English ...