ADN reporter Michelle Theriault Boots says the deaths have gone mostly unnoticed by Anchorage residents in recent years.
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Sullivan suggests US could protect teens from Facebook with Chinese-style screen-time mandates
Sullivan suggested that Facebook doesn’t want to impose time limits for young people because it would hurt profits.
Someone else, not a Homer woman, is said to be Capitol intruder who took Pelosi laptop
Hueper said she feels like she’s off the hook but would like to hear it from the FBI or the Department of Justice.
Alaska’s COVID hospitalizations, patients on ventilators climb over the weekend
As Alaska’s surge in coronavirus cases continues, and COVID patients overwhelm the state’s hospitals, doctors say they’re having to make gut-wrenching decisions about who gets scarce ICU beds.
Inside Alaska trees’ decision to drop their leaves
The process is called senescence, and it happens to trees and humans alike.
At a crucial time in the pandemic, dozens of emergency workers arrive at Anchorage hospital
The team, which includes doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and logistics experts, heard they were being deployed to Alaska just two days earlier.
Murkowski calls on Alaskans to ‘show some kindness’ amid COVID tensions
Murkowski said exhausted hospital workers deserve appreciation but have been mocked, threatened and even spat upon when they’ve called for public health measures.
Alaska Native Medical Center is the third hospital to move to crisis standards of care
The Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage said Friday it has begun operating under crisis standards of care.
Anchorage’s mayor says masks don’t work. An infectious disease expert explains why he’s wrong
Opponents to the proposed mask mandate in Anchorage — including the city’s mayor — have testified in heated Assembly meetings this week with what experts say is misinformation about the effectiveness of masks in helping prevent the spread of COVID-19. According to a number of studies, and Anchorage-based infectious disease specialist Dr. Ben Westley, masks…
Scholars say Holocaust symbol has no place in Anchorage mask debate
One said the Anchorage display was a horrible misuse of a badge that Nazis used to dehumanize and ultimately annihilate millions of Jews.