Energy: Just in the last month, the Trump administration has cancelled a $20 million wind project in Kotzebue and $20 million ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

He says between his fixed income and rising prices of groceries, he's eating less and he no longer mixes hamburger meat in with Jersey's dog food. (Jeremy Hsieh/Alaska Public Media) Bobby Superb ...

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 a remote Alaskan community where polar bears roam, a loaf of bread costs more than $9 ... to Kotzebue in the Northwest Arctic Borough of Alaska. Kotzebue is more than 500 miles away from ...

it'll have food," said Gavin Northey, child nutrition programs manager with the state. "All of those, especially when we get to rural, remote parts of Alaska, have an extraordinary cost.

The cost-of-living adjustments for fiscal 2024 ... About 12% of the state’s population, or 92,100 people, receive food stamps in Alaska. The average payment per Alaskan household member per ...

“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 ...