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  • 1 week ago | adn.com | Jenna Kunze

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday named the city of Anchorage among a list of U.S. “sanctuary jurisdictions” in 36 states that it asserts are “deliberately and shamefully obstructing the enforcement of federal immigration laws.”Anchorage city officials and immigration attorneys dispute the claim of noncompliance with federal immigration law, pointing to a city ordinance and state data.

  • 1 week ago | adn.com | Jenna Kunze

    Inha Fozekosh is stressed. Each morning, the 33–year-old mother of one wakes up in her Sand Lake apartment in Anchorage, makes herself coffee, and logs in to the online U.S. immigration portal to check the status of her future. For the last several months, “there’s nothing,” no movement, said Fozekosh, who came to the U.S. in 2023 through a Biden-era program to escape the war in Ukraine. She’s among the 1,000 Ukrainians who have resettled in Alaska since the start of the war.

  • 2 weeks ago | adn.com | Jenna Kunze

    Days after lawmakers overrode Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a $180 million increase to Alaska’s education spending, administrators and school board members at the state’s largest school district remain anxious. “In a different set of circumstances … this would be a day for the confetti and the parades and that sort of thing,” Superintendent Jharrett Bryantt said at Tuesday’s school board meeting.

  • 2 weeks ago | adn.com | Jenna Kunze

    On the final day of the school year, dozens of Lake Hood Elementary students, dressed in plastic ponchos and goggles, unscrewed the geyser tops affixed to individual 2-liters of soda and — on the countdown of their teacher — released a stream of Mentos-induced, spouting cola. Screaming ensued. Several 9- and 10-year-olds pulled their plastic hoods tight against their faces and ran under a soda sprinkler. Younger students watched from a grassy hill.

  • 2 weeks ago | adn.com | Jenna Kunze |Marc Lester

    Примітка редактора: Цю історію перекладено з англійської на українську мову. (Editor’s note: This story was translated from English into Ukrainian. Read the English version here.)ДЕЛЬТА-ДЖАНКШЕН — Молоді пагонці мангового дерева в горщику тягнулися до весняного світла на підвіконні родини Сторожук. Шістнадцятирічна Вікторія посадила насіння на початку цього року, і, незважаючи на холод і темряву містечка у центральній частині Аляски, воно вижило. Цього місяця воно почало процвітати.

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Anne Hillman

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Yereth Rosen

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Jenna Kunze
Jenna Kunze @jennakunze
29 Jan 25

Twenty-two refugees, and hundreds more in the pipeline, were told last week that their previously approved relocation to Alaska has been suspended, perhaps indefinitely. https://t.co/zH7jYFEDtQ

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Jenna Kunze @jennakunze
26 Jan 25

RT @djspencerlee: … and now I want Ethiopian food for breakfast. Thanks @jennakunze & @lorenholmes

Jenna Kunze
Jenna Kunze @jennakunze
19 Jan 25

RT @MeaslesWatch: State confirms measles case in Alaskan who traveled overseas By @jennakunze https://t.co/dp3kgRrqqK