In downtown Anchorage, a quiet holiday season and an uncertain future
According to the Anchorage Downtown Partnership, many businesses are adapting to online ordering and curbside pickup to ease COVID-19 concerns and salvage the holiday season.
Here’s what it’s like to be medevaced to Anchorage from rural Alaska with COVID-19
When elder Esther Green was medevaced to Anchorage, no one could accompany her. Later, while undergoing treatment in Providence Hospital’s intensive care unit, they could not visit or talk to her for more than two weeks.
Metlakatla man charged with first-degree murder after allegedly killing neighbor
William Taylor faces criminal charges including first-degree murder after allegedly knifing his neighbor, Edward “Buddy” Starrish. Prosecutors say he’s admitted the crime.
Worry for commercial fishermen and Kenai Peninsula communities after Cook Inlet fishery closure
Federal managers voted to close a huge swath of Upper Cook Inlet to commercial salmon fishing, capping a two-year fight over the fate of the fishery and its 500 permit-holders.
Residents free entangled humpback whale near Southeast Alaska community
A 40-foot humpback whale was caught in tanner crab pot gear that, resident Gordon Chew said, came from Kodiak around 630 miles away.
Juneau schools prepare for January return to in-person classes
The plan includes a symptom checklist for students that families need to answer before each school day.
COVID-19 vaccine coming to Juneau as soon as next week
First responders and long-term care patients will be first in line for the COVID-19 vaccine in Juneau.
Crews clean up after dozens of catastrophic landslides along Haines’ Lutak Inlet
Dozens of slides covered the 10 mile stretch of road that connects downtown Haines to the freight dock, the ferry terminal and Chilkoot Lake.
Once again, Arctic Report Card shows the abnormal is now normal
This year was the second warmest on record in the Arctic, with impacts to sea ice, erosion and marine ecosystems.
Hope, hesitancy as Alaska’s first vaccine shipments grow near
Providers charged with giving the vaccine say they’re eager to use the first doses to protect front-line workers, who are among the first in line. But they caution that the first shipment will do little to ease the current demands of the pandemic.
‘Pretty much sums up 2020’: With its tree-lighting ceremony canceled, Wrangell makes do
Despite its desultory appearance, the tree has sparked joy.
Federal COVID-19 funding for Alaska farmers largely lies fallow
All Alaska agricultural producers are eligible for federal assistance under a new USDA program. But days before the deadline, not many have applied.
In ‘A Tlingit Christmas Carol,’ Alaska Indigenous theater transforms holiday classic
In Perseverance Theatre’s “A Tlingit Christmas Carol,” Scrooge is a successful CEO of a Native corporation subsidiary in an unnamed town. He’s also a boarding school survivor.
LISTEN: As Alaska’s COVID-19 count spikes, contact tracers bear the strain
Health officials have described contact tracing as critical to help contain the spread of the coronavirus. But, as the number of infections soars in Alaska, contact tracers, including Knudsen, are feeling the strain.
Applications open for Juneau’s direct pandemic relief payments
Payments begin at $1,000 and scale up to $2,000 based on income. Eligible residents can also get an extra $300 per dependent child.
Sitka School Board to consider Tlingit land acknowledgment to promote respect, healing in city schools
The Sitka School Board will consider acknowledging Tlingit lands when it formally opens its meetings.
Search suspended for two Haines residents missing since landslide
Haines Mayor Douglas Olerud told the community it was more than likely that Larson and Simmons are deceased and that they cannot risk losing additional lives by putting search and rescue personnel on the slide.
Trump administration to auction oil drilling rights in all federal lands of ANWR coastal plain
According to the statement of sale posted online Monday, the minimum bid will be $25 per acre. Companies can submit their sealed bids to Bureau of Land Management between Dec. 21 and Dec. 31. Those bids will be unsealed at the 10 a.m. auction on Jan. 6, which will be broadcast online.
After punishing rains, National Weather Service ‘not seeing anything that’s too far out of the normal’ this week
The National Weather Service the next weather system isn’t likely to bring the kinds of heavy rainfall and high winds that brought destructive landslides and flooding last week.
Federal court overturns approval for Hilcorp’s Liberty Project
A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with environmental groups, saying the agency’s review of drilling impacts was inadequate.