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 ...

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 ...

Delays have taken a particularly harsh toll on communities in rural Alaska, where food costs are already high and food banks and pantries rare. On Thursday, hastily purchased rows of cans of quick ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...