Southwest Alaska has the fastest-growing population in the state, according to new predictions from the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The Southwest region includes seven census ...

Construction workers walk down Fifth Avenue between D and E streets in downtown Anchorage on Feb. 16, 2021. (Jeff Chen / Alaska Public Media) More people moved out of Alaska than into the state last ...

Tununak is a Census-designated place in Bethel Census Area, Alaska, with a population of 339. According to the most recent estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, 0.60% of residents identify as white, ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — More than a month into the start of the 2020 census in rural Alaska, some workers going door to door have grown frustrated by not knowing when they will get their next ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The 2020 Census kicks off Tuesday in remote Alaska. U.S. Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham will be there to conduct the first count in the Bering Sea community of ...

The geography of Toksook Bay, a fishing village on Alaska’s western coast that’s hosting the first count, shows the difficulty of counting the state’s residents. Many of the state’s villages, ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The board tasked with rewriting Alaska’s legislative boundaries based on the latest census have adopted two draft maps for comment. During a meeting Thursday, members of the five ...

Aug. 10—If you drive across the Rust Belt in the Lower 48, you'll encounter them here and there: half-empty towns with schools and storefronts boarded up, waiting for an economic upswing that may ...

Rising temperatures are forcing some Alaska Native villages to consider relocating to higher ground. Climate change is also complicating an accurate count for the 2020 census more complicated. Now to ...

This Feb. 22, 2019, photo shows the Nome, Alaska police station located on a tundra road outside of town. An internal cold case audit has uncovered evidence that the agency regularly failed to fully ...

More than a month into the start of the 2020 census in rural Alaska, some workers going door to door have grown frustrated by not knowing when they will get their next assignments. Others have bought ...