The Food Bank of Alaska is reporting unprecedented levels of food insecurity this year amid rising food costs statewide and major food stamp backlogs at the state Division of Public Assistance.

Saint Francis is asking for food donations, and the pantry isn’t alone. Rebecca Guyer with the Food Bank of Alaska said the ...

Alaska has received $5.9 million in federal funding for a summer food program meant to help reduce food insecurity in rural communities by providing weekly shipments of shelf-stable meals to 4,000 ...

Every year, the Food Bank of Alaska organizes volunteers and food donations to provide boxes of Thanksgiving dinners to families in need. The organization calls the annual give away Thanksgiving ...

The summer lunch spread at Petersburg Elementary School. (Thomas Copeland/KFSK) Alongside Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s vetoes to education funding, Alaska schools are about to find out how much money they ...

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.

Rural communities bordering the Tongass National Forest harvest more than 4.5 million pounds of wild food per year, including 100 different species that our public lands help support. Just how much ...

The Alaska State Fair features a wide range of carnival foods prepared in busy outdoor stalls across the fairgrounds Vendors rely heavily on deep fryers grills and large griddles to produce quick ...

In late summer, Alaska’s tundra is littered with little round dark purple berries the size of pencil erasers. In the Cup’ik dialect, they’re known as kavlakuaraq. Botanists call them Empetrum nigrum.

Pop-ups, trailers, carts and trucks serve rockfish tacos, halibut ceviche and more at affordable prices on a homegrown coastal culinary trail. By Elaine Glusac Elaine Glusac is the Frugal Traveler ...