Trevor Bridgewater is the president of the Alaska School Nutrition Association. “It’s definitely a fact that schools are caught between the rising costs of food and a stagnant reimbursement ...

Isolated villages not connected by roads in Alaska are under even more pressure as food needs to be shipped at an exorbitant cost. Thousands of Alaskans who depend on government assistance have ...

Three- and four-bedroom homes had median costs of $1,733 and $2,043 ... the average spent weekly on food to prepare at home in Alaska is $328.71, compared with the U.S. average of $270.21 at ...

Funding is being directed to help stock Alaska food pantries as part of a broader effort to address a state backlog in processing food stamp benefits. Major delays by the state in processing ...

In rural Alaska, where food costs can be astronomical and food banks or pantries are rare, residents are experiencing particularly dire consequences from the unprecedented backlog, advocates say.

Petitions to cap the property tax rate, remove sales tax on food and utilities and make in-person voting the default again ...

The crisis hit rural Alaska especially hard, where food costs can be astronomical and food banks or pantries are rare. AC is in its final testing phase, and plans to add EBT cards as a form of ...

spending hours trying to juggle your food in a chair by your gate. However, this kind of VIP experience doesn't come without a price tag — and now, it will cost you even more to access Alaska ...

Due to long lines and short supplies, Southeast Alaska Food Bank is asking for ... In addition, Schapp said the rise in food costs has also caused a decrease in the food bank’s buying power.

“With a food truck, you can get into the restaurant business without the full brick-and-mortar entrepreneurial costs,” said Jon Bittner, the state director of the Alaska Small Business ...