The fuel barge Edward Itta, owned by Olympic Tug and Barge, delivers fuel to Juneau, Alaska, on the morning of Friday, July 17, 2020. (James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) Throughout rural Alaska, the ...

(Photo by Andrew Kitchenman/Alaska Beacon) The Alaska Division of Elections added 260 ballots from two rural Alaska communities ... of the end of Friday. Those towns, according to figures ...

Fuel prices tend to run high in Alaska’s rural and roadless communities. For a short time this spring, fuel costs in some rural villages were actually lower than in the state’s largest cities.

Rural Alaska has the worst crime statistics in the ... Bald eagles fly above, humpback whales are seen offshore and black bears wander into town, especially when the salmon start running in ...

The rest of Alaska’s population is spread across small towns, rural boroughs, and remote villages, from the Kenai Peninsula to the Arctic coast. In Alaska, rural can mean a small road-connected ...

The film is a portrait of small-town families–where, for example ... “They’re not created with homes in mind, and certainly not rural homes in Alaska which are often intergenerational,” she said.