Man floats away inside his home during Alaska's storms
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Task force aims to move those displaced by ex-typhoon in Alaska from shelters to hotels, rentals
Officials have identified more than 1,000 available hotel rooms plus additional rental options in Alaska’s largest city for people displaced to Anchorage after the remnants of a typhoon ravaged their villages.
The remnant of Typhoon Halong slammed the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, an area in Western Alaska hundreds of miles from the U.S. road system. More than a thousand people are displaced.
Bitter cold, snowy winter conditions could prolong storm recovery efforts along Alaska's rural western coast, Gov. Mike Dunleavy warned.
In the Arctic tundra of Alaska, climate change is forcing an Alaska Native village to relocate. Rising temperatures are melting the underground permafrost. The melted ice then mixes with the soil, creating unstable land the Yupʼik people call Alaskan quicksand.
Produce and power are both costly in the state. So researchers are testing ways to address both issues using the same land.
Officials and local leaders are turning attention to trying to stabilize damaged infrastructure and housing where they can before the winter freeze sets in.
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Alaska storm damage so bad many evacuees won’t go home for at least 18 months, governor says
In one of the hardest hit villages, Kipnuk, an initial assessment showed that 121 homes — or 90% of the total — have been destroyed, Gov. Mike Dunleavy said.
In the aftermath of a destructive typhoon, communities across western Alaska have been destroyed from historic floodwaters, causing hundreds of evacuations.
Hundreds of residents from remote Alaska Native villages are being airlifted after a storm battered their communities
For three days I had been watching for caribou from behind a spruce-tree lookout not far from my cabin on Savage River, on the north slope of the Alaska Range. It was early September, crisp, the hills red and yellow.
Alaska State Troopers said that one person, 67-year-old Ella Mae Kashatok, was killed in Kwigillingok. Two people in the village remain unaccounted for, the agency said in a Facebook update on Tuesday, announcing that search-and-rescue efforts were ending.