February 19, 2026
After almost two years of battling it out in Alaska federal court, two Native Alaskan villages have come to terms with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to end their fight with the agency over $70 million in broadband funds.
July 14, 2025
After over a year of battling it out in Alaska federal court, two Native Alaskan villages will have their chance to go before the judge and argue for summary judgment against the U.S. Department of Agriculture in their suit over $70 million in broadband funds.
May 14, 2025
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is standing by its assertion that two Native Alaskan villages are not tribal lands in the same way as reservations in its bid to convince a court to side with it in a fight over $70 million in broadband funds the agency is accused of wrongly giving away.
April 11, 2025
Now that a federal court has found that Alaskan native villages are tribal lands in the same way reservations are, that court is being told it's time for it to grant two such villages summary judgment on their claims that the government wrongly gave away $70 million in broadband funds meant for them.
December 17, 2024
Two Alaskan Native villages trying to force the clawback of $70 million in broadband funds want a federal court to stop the state broadband office from opening the window for BEAD applications, a request the telecoms involved have called a "brazen attempt" at seeking the same relief a different way.
August 22, 2024
The two Alaskan telecoms that received the U.S. Department of Agriculture grants now at the center of a suit from local tribes say they want in on the litigation, telling an Alaska federal judge that they should get a chance to defend their grants alongside the USDA as intervenors.
July 22, 2024
Two Alaskan tribes are urging a federal judge to step in and yank back $70 million in broadband infrastructure funds that they say the U.S. Department of Agriculture gave away to someone else after falsely marking them served.
July 05, 2024
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service says that it shouldn't be forced to retract $70 million in broadband funds it gave to two Alaskan telecoms because the tribes challenging its decision don't count as tribes under the definition the program is using.
May 28, 2024
Two Alaskan tribes suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture for allegedly failing to get required tribal approval before giving out $70 million in broadband grants are now asking the federal judge hearing the case to stop any funding from going out until their challenge is heard.
May 07, 2024
Two Alaskan tribes are taking the U.S. Department of Agriculture to federal court after they say the agency gave away $70 million in funds meant to help connect them to the internet after falsely declaring them "served" without checking with the tribes, as they were legally obligated to do.