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Alaska food banks straining under shipping costs

Higher fuel prices and logistic challenges are making it harder and more expensive to ship food to Alaska's remote food banks ...
Yahoo

Alaska typhoon victims’ losses of traditional foods go beyond dollar values

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shea Siegert, senior manager of external affairs at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, and Kelsey Wallace, president of ...
The New York Times

In Alaska and Hawaii, Higher Food Prices Intensified SNAP Anxiety

Some residents are receiving benefits, but the uncertainty over the past weeks has burdened many in the two states, where the cost of food is the highest in the nation. By Christi A. FoistJack ...
Alaska Dispatch News

Alaska, one of two states without a cabinet-level agriculture department, is planning to create one

Driven by food-shortage fears during the COVID-19 pandemic and inspired by the recommendations of a legislative task force, Alaska lawmakers are considering the creation of a cabinet-level state ...
Alaska Public Media

Warming conditions in Alaska waters present a new food-safety challenge

Ryan Jordan, owner of the Broken Oar Oyster Bar on the Homer Spit, holds fresh locally grown oysters on Oct. 23, 2025. Oyster growers and sellers in Alaska now take protective measures against Vibrio ...
Juneau Empire

Alaska typhoon victims’ losses of traditional foods go beyond dollar values

When natural disasters strike in the Lower 48, people affected are compensated for income lost from wage-earning jobs that have been interrupted, as well as lost assets with assigned financial value.