The Valdez Star - Serving Prince William Sound and Copper River Basin

Valdez has at least one confirmed case of pertussis – commonly called whooping cough – and medical professionals are urging parents to immunize their children and to get booster shots for themselves. “We have at least one positive case in...

The city’s metal pit, the portion of the landfill on Dump Road where scrap metal waste is buried, has long been a money pit for those willing to haul-out its treasure trove of recyclable – and...

The room smelled of a smoked moosehide covering a table that held birch-bark baskets and a white box rimmed with beadwork flowers. Inside the box were the smooth bones of an adult man, a teenager and...