high-resolution maps of Alaska. He made good on that promise this week with the release of the first set of maps, called Arctic digital elevation models or ArcticDEMs, created through the National ...

Immense beyond imagination, Alaska covers more territory than Texas, California, and Montana combined. Wide swaths of the 49th state—aptly nicknamed the “Last Frontier”—are untamed and ...

Gleason said the agency "abused its discretion" by not considering any protected areas to exclude or how other nations are conserving both seal populations ... by the state of Alaska, which ...

A map shows where in Alaska may be at risk of serious flooding from sea level rise by 2100. A new study from University of Alaska Fairbanks graduate student Richard Buzard, found that communities ...

Alaska is one of five states with no state sales tax. However, localities can levy sales taxes, and you might pay local sales tax on some essentials such as groceries. Higher rates are found in ...

But in parts of Alaska ... the state capital and the region’s biggest city at just over 31,000 people, convinced assembly members in the city to vote against adopting the maps, claiming they ...

Interactive maps, like the one at ... States,” says American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association (AIANTA) CEO Sherry ...

Alaska has elections for governor, Senate and in its at-large US House district. Alaska’s elections utilize ranked-choice voting. Voters will rank their top four picks in each race. If no one ...

The right to vote is considered sacrosanct in the U.S., but it isn’t always so in the tiny, remote Native villages across ...

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All times ET. Not all candidates are listed. CNN will broadcast a projected winner only after an extensive review of data from a number of sources. "Flipped seat" denotes a race where the 2020 ...

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