About 500 residents signed up for vaccinations even though they weren’t eligible under the state’s current criteria, according to city health officials.
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Alaska’s Murkowski among senators pushing stripped-down relief package
The proposal of the 10 Republican senators includes direct payments of up to $1,000 but with lower income limits than earlier COVID aid bills.
Alaska Permanent Fund Corp, with millions in GameStop shares, eyes stock surge warily
Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation CEO Angela Rodell said GameStop is just one of over 11,000 different stocks in the organization’s portfolio. On top of that, it’s also invested in bonds, real estate and private equity.
Alaska’s Pacific Islanders are being hit hard by COVID-19. But they aren’t getting vaccinated.
Pacific Islanders and Native Hawaiians are about ten times less likely to be vaccinated than the general population — and ten times more likely to die of COVID-19.
Alaska’s new voting system gives Murkowski immunity from Trump’s revenge
In 2022, it won’t be just Republican voters who decide whether Murkowski should advance to the November ballot.
Former Alaska bush pilot found guilty of international parental kidnapping
More than six years after he took his children from Alaska to the Philippines, a former Anchorage-based pilot has been convicted of international parental kidnapping.
With modest job growth expected in 2021, Anchorage’s economic leaders show cautious optimism
A forecast from the McKinley Research Group predicts Anchorage will add 4,000 jobs this year. The city lost nearly 14,000 jobs in 2020.
Advocates see huge increase in severe child abuse cases in Alaska during the pandemic
Alaska CARES medical director Dr. Barbara Knox described “a serious uptick in cases of abusive head trauma, serious physical abuse.”
LISTEN: Giant Alaskan legend from early UFC dies of COVID-19
Paul Varelans was a 6-foot-8, 300-pound giant from Fairbanks and a pioneer in the now wildly popular UFC. He died at the age of 51 battling COVID-19 in an Atlanta hospital.
Alaska US senators split on attempt to derail Trump impeachment trial
Sen. Lisa Murkowski was one of five Republicans who joined Democrats on a vote that keeps the impeachment trial of Donald Trump on track.