Is the ‘murder hornet’ headed to Alaska? Experts say it’s unlikely
The insects have been spotted within a few hundred miles of Southeast Alaska, but experts say that it's unlikely they could establish a breeding colony in the region's wet, temperate climate.
Alaska’s fate in massive Paycheck Protection Program rests on the shoulders of local bankers
PPP is a massive loan-a-thon for Northrim. The bank has employees in roles they never expected to take on.
Yes, Alaska snowbird, you can drive home again. Please don’t touch the Canadians.
Canada is letting returning Alaskans through its border but “you need to be prepared to just keep driving," says Sen. Dan Sullivan.
Dentists say mandating COVID-19 tests for patients before procedures will ‘shut down’ dentistry
New state guidelines require patients to get a negative result from a coronavirus test within 48 hours of many dental procedures. But dentists say that's not feasible.
As Mat-Su school board reconsiders banning books, home-grown rock band offers them for free
The Grammy-winning, Alaska-grown rock band Portugal. The Man is offering to send five so-called "controversial" books recently banned from school curriculum in the Mat-Su, where several band members grew up, to students there who want to read them.
Alaska’s chief medical officer pushes back against ‘herd immunity’ to control virus spread
State Chief Medical Officer Dr. Anne Zink said that if cases are allowed to grow unchecked, there's still a real risk of overwhelming Alaska's health care system.
How did politics around reopening Anchorage get so heated?
The politics around reopening Alaska’s economy are getting contentious. But blame isn’t spread uniformly. And in Anchorage, a vocal contingent is faulting the mayor over policies that are largely in lockstep with the governors.
ConocoPhillips to cut its Alaska oil production in half due to ‘unacceptably low’ prices
Conoco will cut oil production in Alaska by about 100,000 barrels per day for the month of June. That's about a fifth of the crude that typically flows down the trans-Alaska pipeline.
At the Dimond Center, the first big Anchorage mall to reopen, stores are ready but customers are few
At Alaska's largest retail space, businesses have opened again, but getting customers through the doors comes with many challenges.
A $3 million planeload of PPE for Alaska has landed in Anchorage
The plane is filled with orders of surgical masks, gowns, gloves and face shields that came from six different Chinese manufacturing companies, though tighter-fitting N95 masks couldn’t be obtained, said Heidi Hedberg, Alaska’s public health director.
‘The first glance at what’s coming’: Oilfield service companies alert state of more than 250 layoffs
Across the country, companies that provide oilfield services and equipment are cutting jobs and bracing for bankruptcy as the pandemic launches the oil and gas industry into a tailspin.
Zink to Alaskans: ‘It’s no time to let your guard down.’
Zink said that the state must go 28 days without a community case to say it doesn’t have community spread. That’s far from happening.
Ravn files plan to liquidate, as bankruptcy proceeds
The liquidation plan still needs to be approved in court, but it is a signal that Ravn, once Alaska’s largest rural airline, is ready to call it quits.
Ketchikan’s distance learning program was ready to scale up. So why did the state go with Florida’s?
Education officials in Alaska were surprised when the Dunleavy administration announced a one-year, $525,000 contract with an out-of-state digital school offering similar services to the Alaska Digital Academy.
Scientists are struggling to understand COVID-19. As Alaska ramps up testing, what will they find out?
There’s a lot you can learn from testing data, besides just who has the disease. State researchers are working to understand where it is, what symptoms people have and how to prepare for future outbreaks.
BP says sale to Hilcorp is still on, but under revised terms
The oil and gas giant says it expects the deal to close in June.
From her home office yurt, Alaska’s chief medical officer navigates ‘uncharted territory’
Dr. Anne Zink started as an emergency room doctor, but was drawn into health policy after seeing the failures of Alaska's medical system while she was on the job. Now she's become a trusted voice as she appeals to residents to follow stringent social distancing guidelines.
Inmate at Goose Creek Correctional tests positive for coronavirus
It is the first inmate of Alaska's correctional system to have a positive test, but only four have been conducted in the Wasilla facility.
Alaska’s PPE shortage has eased, state’s top doc says
Most Alaska hospitals now have enough face masks and other personal protection equipment to last a month.
Alaska has relaxed in-state travel rules and set new protocols for childcare, fitness and other businesses
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has relaxed the ban on residents’ in-state travel and other things, with limits, as part of an array of revised health mandates unveiled this week, aimed at cautiously reviving the economy.