Link: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Mayor George Paneak of Anaktuvuk Pass, who grew up in a sod hut near the Brooks Range community and who in recent years championed environmentally sustainable construction in rural Alaska, has died after a battle with cancer.

Editor's note: As we recognize the 50th anniversary of President Dwight Eisenhower's signing of the Alaska statehood proclamation on Jan.

PRECAUTIONS: Villages do what they can against swine flu. Published: September 11th, 2009 09:23 PM Last Modified: September 12th, 2009 01:24 AM Officials temporarily closed a village school in the Brooks Range Friday after as many as half the students stayed home sick.

Ahead of me, the John River veered through a narrow chute and shot past a sheer rock face, its clear waters lost in a turbid whorl.

Residents of the southwest Alaska village of Newtok hope to move to a new town site within five years, far away from the eroding river that's rapidly eating away at their community.

Link: The Arctic Sounder: Students and teachers at Barrow's Ilisagvik College are building an energy-efficient "Arctic dream home." Guided by UAF's Cold Climate Housing Research Center and with funding from the Tagiugmiullu Nunamiullu Housing Authority, students set out to build 1,000-square-foot house in Anaktuvuk Pass that would cost no more than ...

The Permanent Fund is closing the books on its first annual loss since it was established in 1976.

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The brown, earth-enclosed house with solar panels and a wind turbine would look out of place in any town.

From the Piper Navajo, Anaktuvuk Pass is a smattering of pink and blue roofs bisected by the John River and engulfed by the rugged peaks of the Brooks Range.