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

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

Parts of the UAA/APU Consortium Library will be affected by renovations until late 2026 for the addition of the Alaska Leaders Archive. The Alaska Leaders Archive will be a public archive that ...

Bill Hill is an Independent candidate running for Alaska’s seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Hill spoke with The ...

Matt Schultz is a lifelong Alaskan and Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in the upcoming November election. Schultz spoke with The Northern Light about his belief in ...

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 ...

Several bookshelves at the UAA Consortium Library will remain temporarily empty as staff rearrange collections. Head of Access Services Lorelei Sterling said journal collections were relocated from ...

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 ...

University of Alaska staff voted in favor of union representation, 1,106 to 610, with 1,716 eligible voters, according to an April 1 newsletter from UA Chief Human Resources Officer Nickole Conley.

The United States and Israel launched joint attacks on Iran on Feb. 28. Iran responded with attacks on U.S. and Israeli-associated locations across the Middle East. Dr. Kristin Zuhone, a political ...