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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The student-created club HEMA — Historical European Martial Arts — is held every Tuesday from approximately 1:15 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Room 116 in the Fine Arts Building. The HEMA club is fairly new, ...

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 ...

Correction: 3/25/25 6:47 p.m. The headline of this story previously read "Eruption alert: Mount Spurr" and was changed to "Eruption update: Mount Spurr." The history of Mount Spurr spans 10,000 years, ...

Alaska State Legislature House Bill 101 remains on the Senate floor in gridlock. The Northern Light took a deeper look at the history and context of the bill. House Bill 101, introduced in February ...

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 ...

Originally titled “UFO Abduction,” “The McPherson Tape” is presented as intimate home video footage of a quiet evening with the Van Heese family that spirals into an uncanny experience. The film — ...