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It's been a challenging winter for rural Alaska villages. High fuel prices, reduced income from fishing, and a particularly cold winter have left many residents struggling to heat their homes and feed their families.

It's been a challenging winter for rural Alaska villages. High fuel prices, reduced income from fishing, and a particularly cold winter have left many residents struggling to heat their homes and feed their families.

Hunger problems in Western Alaska villages, hard hit by high fuel prices and a poor fishing season, have touched the hearts and wallets of hundreds of people, whose donations of food and money are now reaching ...

A wave of donated of food and cash has swept into lower Yukon River villages over the past month, with more than 19,000 pounds of supplies and $13,000 landing in Emmonak alone.

Winter dealt a brutal hand to villages in Western Alaska this year. Residents of these tiny remote fishing communities have been hammered by extreme cold, exorbitant fuel prices and poor fish harvests, forcing ...

The press releases from Gov. Sarah Palin and Fairbanks Rep. Jay Ramras over the past two days are straight out of the Attack Dog school of public relations.

Food donations are heading to Alaska's rural villages, beset by poor fishing seasons and high oil and gas prices.

Gov. Sarah Palin has appointed a former crab fisherman and fisheries corporation manager from Dutch Harbor/Unalaska as her new rural affairs adviser.

With fuel costs high in rural Alaska but the state in a budget crunch, a fight is brewing over whether to subsidize the high costs of fuel in the Bush.

A Fairbanks state legislator is assisting a food drive for a western Alaska community.

HUNGER: Population is healthy, and families are having trouble buying food. Published: January 28th, 2009 09:05 PM Last Modified: January 28th, 2009 09:05 PM State and federal wildlife managers are giving ...

A state director reviewing reports of high fuel costs and food shortages in lower Yukon River villages said she'd support free fuel vouchers as a way to bring immediate relief to villagers.

The 2009 session of the Alaska Legislature began Tuesday with rural lawmakers pushing for immediate state aid to Emmonak, where some villagers say they don't have money for food and fuel.

Top state officials heard calls for help from village leaders in Western Alaska Friday as stories of hardship in a single Yukon River village expanded into a search for ways to get immediate help to the ...