Rural Health Focus

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Line One: Talking to youth about substance use

Dr. Jillian Woodruff - May 24, 2023

Talk of Alaska: Supports for active duty service members and veterans

Lori Townsend, Alaska Public Media - May 23, 2023

a retired Alaska State Trooper

State MMIP coordinator says initiative is growing in Alaska, Lower 48

Greg Knight, KNOM - Nome - May 22, 2023

Two people ride on an ATV toward a white pickup truck.

New report shows Alaskans die from traumatic brain injury at twice...

ice flows on a river

Interior and Southwest Alaska ice-jam floodwaters recede as recovery continues

Scrabble pieces on wood table. Letters read "MENTAL HEALTH"

Line One: Ketamine Therapy

a vaccine vial

FDA approval of historic RSV vaccine offers hope for rural Alaska...

water pools around houses and covers roadways

Flooding closes schools in Glennallen as high waters continue to inundate...

a line of toy cars and trucks on the ground

Talk of Alaska: The child care crisis

Crooked Creek flooding

Breakup brings serious flooding to Yukon and Kuskokwim River communities

Alaska’s child care crisis | Alaska Insight

a woman and a baby

The child care crisis is hitting rural Alaska hard

Talk of Alaska: The 2023 wildfire season

boxes of food in a warehouse

Alaska food banks still ‘inundated’ as state works to fix food...

Three women holding Alaska Native regalia,

Federal commission hears from Alaskans on high rate of missing and...

A woman sits in a field of grass

As rural communities prepare for climate change, a UAA scientist is...

the Alaska State Capitol

State sales or income tax? As Alaska lawmakers consider proposals, economists...

Island town visible from the water

Talk of Alaska: Building healthy communities

Jesse Kiehl and clean water advocates

Talk of Alaska: New proposed PFAS regulations

Resources for aging Alaskans to stay in their home communities |...

Line One: Celebrating Sobriety

a grocery shopper

‘Back to one meal a day’: SNAP benefits drop as food...

Jesse Kiehl and clean water advocates

Alaska senator’s fight to regulate ‘forever chemicals’ gets a boost from...

People cut up meat in a kitchen.

On appeal, state wins right to challenge subsistence hunting decision for...

an Alaska Division of Public Assistance sign

State SNAP backlog hits close to home in Homer

A map of the Willow development on Alaska's North Slope

Talk of Alaska: The Willow Project

Craig, Alaska

Boil water notice lifted for Craig, officials still calling for conservation

downtown Anchorage

Alaska’s working-age population on decline since 2013 peak, and recovery chances...

Kotzebue snowstorm

Kotzebue declares disaster after back-to-back blizzards, power outages and boil water...

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After years of COVID restrictions, Nikolai meets Iditarod with cautious optimism

Craig sign

Craig crews working to restore water service, but boil notice remains...

brown water comes out of sink

Craig issues boil water notice after failures at treatment plant

an observer measuring a king crab

Norton Sound crabbers become catcher-sellers to offload winter harvest

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Rural Health

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