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With health care spending down 60% from May, some hospitals are struggling to survive.

Henry Mack, mayor of the 900-person town, said the individual is an employee at the huge Peter Pan Seafoods plant.

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.

A Kotzebue resident has tested positive for COVID-19, Maniilaq Association officials announced Friday night. That marks the third case in the city and fourth in Maniilaq’s service area, which covers the Northwest Arctic Borough and the village of Point Hope.

The Tustumena ferry’s sailings were canceled after a crew member tested positive for COVID-19 Saturday.

Unalaska officials have reported a third local case of COVID-19, after announcing the city's first two Wednesday.

The person arrived in the community on Monday but their test didn't come back as positive until Thursday.

The infected individuals were taken to Anchorage, where they are under a monitored quarantine.

After 85 people on an American Seafoods vessel tested positive, the company said it would test crew on its other vessels.

The City of Unalaska has confirmed its first local cases of COVID-19. Two seafood industry workers tested positive for the virus on Wednesday.