Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cars are driven on Fourth Avenue in downtown Anchorage on Oct. 7, 2024. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) Alaska’s population ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Baby products line the shelves on March 3, 2026, at an aisle in an Anchorage grocery store. Fewer babies are being born in Alaska, ...

Alaska’s population is set to significantly decline by 2050, according to a new forecast from the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The department publishes population forecasts ...

Alaska souvenir name signs are seen on Monday at a gift shop in the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport. Oliver was the most popular name for baby boys born in Alaska in 2023, according to the ...

As Alaskans from different organizations convened at the University of Alaska Anchorage to brainstorm ways to reverse the state’s continuing population outmigration, a leading state economist ...

If you drive across the Rust Belt in the Lower 48, you’ll encounter them here and there: half-empty towns with schools and storefronts boarded up, waiting for an economic upswing that may never come.

Retired Anchorage attorney David Pree, 77, stands on a porch of the Pioneer Home in Anchorage, Alaska. The percentage of people 65 and older has nearly tripled in the state since construction of the ...

The offices of the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development in Juneau are seen on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) Alaska’s population is set to significantly ...

Alaska’s population rose slightly between 2024 and 2025 and is now at its highest level since 2017, the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development announced Wednesday. Alaska had an ...

Fewer Alaska babies are being born and more Alaskans are dying, causing the state’s natural population increase margin to ...

Correction: The original version of this article stated that Anchorage and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough are forecast to continue growing in population. Anchorage and the Mat-Su are grouped together ...