Alaska Dispatch

An Alaska Native Justice Center program seeks to break barriers to success for rural youth caught using drugs or alcohol in Anchorage.

ACS customers on Prince of Wales Island have been complaining about their phone service for years. Next week, ACS will unveil a proposal that may resolve their concerns -- if it passes muster with the RCA.

Rival hoops teams from Barrow and Nome are creating a buzz that this could be Western Alaska's year to seize a state title.

As Alaska boosts the number of village public safety officers in small communities, the state's top cop says he will also need more troopers to handle mentoring and oversight responsibilities.

Improved safety and quality of life are among the reasons Little Diomede says it's time to improve transportation to its distant, rocky shores.

How the simple realities of survival in rural Alaska killed a lifelong Nunivak Islander.

Hours after the Point Hope trials ended last week, the gavel gave way to a night of games.

Thursday brought an end to an emotional case that had pitted one of Alaska's oldest Inupiat villages against state prosecutors and troopers.

An accused caribou hunter and village elders bear witness to their customs and isolation from Western ways.

Dueling doctors faced off Wednesday over whether diseased caribou meat poses any danger to traditional hunters.

A defendant's attorney argued the state's case against three Point Hope hunters accused of wasting caribou meat "is not really about state or federal law ... it is about the right to life itself."