Wikimedia CommonsWhittier, Alaska is home to approximately 272 people, most of whom live in Begich Towers (right). If you have to go to the grocery store, the post office, the laundromat, or even ...

Whittier is a small Alaska city, unique in that nearly everyone lives in one apartment building, shown in the center of this aerial photo. The state of Alaska has charged 10 U.S. nationals in the ...

way longer than the state of Alaska has been a state,” he said. “I hope we get the same rights.” Pese said that his family has lived in Whittier for more than a decade. His wife, Tupe Smith ...

Meanwhile, last fall Alaska State Troopers investigated Smith’s husband and other members of their extended family in Whittier. The state brought fraud and perjury charges against the 10 ...

In indictments filed April 4, the state of Alaska charged the Whittier residents — all members of an extended family — with voting illegally in multiple recent elections, saying that because ...