The Northern Light had lunch from Pasta La Vista, a local pasta food truck, and spoke with owner Caitlyn Sweeney. Pasta La ...

Board of Regents leadership, known as BOR, consists of 11 members selected by the governor. Each regent is eligible to serve on the board for eight years. The BOR includes a student regent who is also ...

UAA Journalism and Public Communications professor, KTOO reporter and former National Public Radio correspondent Elizabeth ...

The 23rd annual Downtown Summer Solstice Festival was held on June 20 and was hosted by Anchorage Downtown Partnership. The ...

Alaska is facing a sexual and reproductive health crisis. The state currently leads the nation in gonorrhea cases, ranks third for chlamydia, and holds the 11th highest rate of syphilis per capita.

In these unprecedented times, Gil Scott-Heron’s poem “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” has become more relevant than ever. It speaks to people who expect change to come without sacrifice and ...

On Sept. 12, 1962, John F. Kennedy would inform a crowd gathered at Rice University that the United States of America would put a man on the moon before the end of the decade. On July 20, 1969, Neil ...

UAA’s Lavender Graduation was established by the pride center in 2017, and is held in the Student Union each year in May. The event celebrates graduating LGBTQ+ students. Social work student and ...

Thinking of the barren, frigid interior of Alaska can send a chill down your spine — not just from the cold temperatures there, but from the tall tales of strange happenings many brush off as good ...

In the late 1950s, NASA and the U.S. Naval School of Aviation Medicine launched a joint research program. The program recruited 11 deaf men from Gallaudet College — a university for the deaf and hard ...

On July 1, the U.S. Senate voted to pass the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which is currently on its way to be passed into law, according to the White House. In a clip provided by Time, J.D. Vance is ...

Disclaimer: A version of this story was revised using ChatGPT and submitted as a class assignment. No AI was used in the writing or editing of this version. When I came back to UAA in 2022 to study ...