ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Kristin Paniptchuk's water broke on Christmas Eve at her home in the western Alaska Inupiat village of Shaktoolik, and then she began to bleed profusely. The local clinic in ...

The Shaktoolik boys defeated Cook Inlet Academy 76-55 for the Class 1A state basketball championship Saturday at the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage. The top-seeded Wolverines (18-3 ...

Mar. 15—There were plenty of apt adjectives for the Shaktoolik boys basketball team and its performance Saturday at Alaska Airlines Arena. "Fearless," guard Seth Paniptchuk said. "Confident ...

Mary Lou Asicksik was raised in Shaktoolik and Savoonga, Alaska, where her parents taught at the local schools. Mary Lou’s given Inupiaq name is Baayin (after her grandmother) but everyone ...