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Funding cuts provoke concerns about job losses, cancelled research programs, and closed departments.

Mike Dunleavy vetoes funding that would have made up 40 percent of the university system’s total budget.

Twenty current and former students claim anthropologist David Yesner sexually harassed them and that the college didn’t take action until years after the complaints started.

Southeast Alaska’s humpback whales haven’t changed their calls for close to four decades.

The genome of an infant who lived in Alaska thousands of years ago represents a previously unknown group of humans called Ancient Beringians, who share a common lineage with other Native Americans. 

Balto, Togo, and other huskies famously delivered life-saving serum to a remote Alaskan town in 1925—but newspapers didn’t tell the whole story. 

Scientists have identified a virus that may be responsible for avian keratin disorder.

Researchers working in Alaska, above the Arctic Circle, have unearthed the northernmost species of dinosaur ever found.

Toby Burke, 48, defended his family from a brown bear in Alaska using a birdwatching telescope.