Alaska children who are deaf and hard-of-hearing would be guaranteed a local education under a proposal passed unanimously by ...

An Alaska foster youth advocacy organization is suing the state's Office of Children’s Services. The lawsuit claims the ...

As a pediatrician and a mother of three children enrolled in the Anchorage School District, I see firsthand how essential strong public schools are to the health and well-being of Alaska’s kids. In my ...

As a parent and researcher, I am seeing an alarming trend. Children born just five years ago are expected to face between two- and seven-fold more extreme climate events, such as heatwaves, than their ...

Marcia Lowry outside the federal courthouse in Anchorage on Sept. 8, 2025. She's lead attorney in the class action lawsuit against the Alaska Office of Children's Services. When former foster youth ...

Alaska’s rates for childhood vaccinations are well below the national average, and the percentage of kindergarteners who had received all recommended vaccines was the lowest last year since at least ...

Tali Stone stands in the parking lot at the Hyatt Hotel in Anchorage on Monday, March 31, 2025. Tali Stone was 9 years old when her foster mother brought her to North Star, an acute psychiatric ...

Alaska has some of the highest rates of chronic absenteeism in the nation — state data shows that more than 44,000 students ...