Murkowski’s Trump ‘struggle’: Her goals for Alaska vs. her values
She likes what he does but not what he says.
Site of Alaska’s largest COVID-19 outbreak begins third round of testing, as some patients grow worse
More than 40 of the center’s patients and caregivers have tested positive for COVID-19 so far. One of the patients has died.
Alaska superior court judge orders state to correct its summary of the oil-tax initiative
Superior Court Judge William Morse sided with proponents of the ballot initiative, saying Meyer did not provide an impartial summary.
Dunleavy says he won’t defund police, but thanks protesters for weighing in on injustice
Dunleavy didn’t list specific changes he would advocate, but said he expects ideas to come from conversations between Alaskans.
After pandemic leads to shortage, animal rights groups send 8,000 pounds of dog food to rural Alaska
The food will be shipped to Bethel, from where it will be distributed around the region.
Sharp increase in hospitalizations as COVID case tally rises by 20
The number of people currently in the hospital with COVID-19 in Alaska nearly doubled between Monday and Tuesday.
Alaska hospitals fear long-term financial consequences of COVID-19
With health care spending down 60% from May, some hospitals are struggling to survive.
With uncertainty about how school will look in the fall, Anchorage parents turn to home school
Some parents are concerned about health, others are looking for educational certainty.
LISTEN: Alaska lacks good data on police killings, researcher says
Researchers wish there was more data to contextualize the rate of police killings in Alaska.
‘We’ve got to do better’: Anchorage police address racial bias, use of force policies
Anchorage Police Chief Justin Doll said that the department has a "progressive mindset" when it comes to its use of force policies, but acknowledged there are areas where the department needs to improve.
Patient at Anchorage transitional care center is Alaska’s latest coronavirus death
The Providence Transitional Care Center in East Anchorage is the site of the state’s largest coronavirus outbreak.
A Seattle fishing company has had more than 100 COVID-19 cases on its ships. They’re heading to Alaska this summer.
With Alaska's summer fishing season still gearing up, the industry has already been shaken by its first major outbreak. Last week, Seattle-based American Seafoods confirmed that 92 crew from its American Dynasty ship had tested positive for COVID-19 -- nearly three-fourths of 124 people onboard.
Juneau’s mayor Beth Weldon recovered from COVID-19 this week
During Monday evening’s city assembly meeting, Mayor Beth Weldon said she traveled to the Lower 48 to move her son out of his college dorm. When she came back, she started her 14-day quarantine, and then started to feel sick.
For Gov. Dunleavy, COVID-19 evokes century-old family loss to the flu in rural Alaska
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy grew up in Pennsylvania. But his wife, Rose, is Inupiaq, raised in the Northwest Alaska village of Noorvik, and her mother once told Dunleavy a story that connects to the state’s traumatizing experience in the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.
How can Alaskans go back to the office, and what’s lost if we don’t?
Can the corner office-dwellers let their masks down if the cubicle workers can't? Doing office in the coronavirus age raises so many questions.
The state has revised its two-week quarantine requirement. Here’s what we know about the changes.
For more than two months, Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration required people traveling to Alaska from out of state to quarantine for two weeks once they get here. But, that changed June 6. Here is some of what we know so far.
As case counts rise, Anchorage mayor calls for renewed ‘personal responsibility’ to keep city safe
The virus is spreading within the community, with one cluster of 12 cases centered on a single household.
Friday update: 13 new COVID-19 cases in Alaska, including two non-residents; more Providence cases
Eleven of the new cases are in Alaska residents, and two are in nonresident workers in Anchorage -- one from the seafood industry and the other from the tourism industry. Eight are in Anchorage and five are on the Kenai Peninsula.
LISTEN: COVID-19 almost killed this marathon runner. Now he wants Alaskans to take the threat seriously.
Fairbanks resident Greg Finstad was one of the first people in Alaska diagnosed with COVID-19. He says the disease almost killed him and he’s still recovering.
11 workers at Whittier seafood plant test positive for COVID
The infected individuals were taken to Anchorage, where they are under a monitored quarantine.