Alaskans, how will SNAP’s halt during the shutdown affect you? On Nov. 1, federal food benefits are set to stop amid the ongoing government shutdown.

Federal food benefits are set to stop amid the ongoing government shutdown. We’re hoping to hear from Alaskans: How will the loss of food assistance be felt in your lives? If you’d like to share, you can do so using this form.

Opossum that arrived in Alaska on shipping container, christened ‘Grubby’ by devoted fans, has died The Virginia opossum, which ran loose for weeks in Homer before being caught and taken to the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage, died from complications of old age, the zoo said.

Grubby, the female opossum that hitched a ride to Alaska on a shipping container two years ago — spurring a manhunt, memes and a frenzy in a small coastal town — has died, the Alaska Zoo said.

*in Kenai and Homer 😉

(Not an actual critique, just fighting the good fight against Homer erasure as a former journo from there)