The company that runs Anchorage’s municipal coronavirus testing sites is scaling back its hours this week, even as the city continues to see some of the nation’s highest rates of COVID-19 transmission in the country.
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Public testimony over Anchorage mask ordinance continues, with no end in sight
Thursday marks the Anchorage Assembly’s sixth session scheduled for public testimony on an ordinance that would introduce a mask mandate for the city.
Even Murkowski won’t cross aisle to help Democrats raise debt ceiling
Failing to raise the debt limit would mean the government would run out of money to pay military and civilian salaries, pensions and other spending Congress has already agreed to, including its debt payments.
New book by Alaska author Tom Kizzia explores ghost town era of McCarthy
Tom Kizzia said the new book builds off of research he did for his bestselling 2013 true crime book, “Pilgrim’s Wilderness.” That followed the story of Papa Pilgrim, who settled in McCarthy with his wife and 15 kids in the late 1990s.
Alaska’s economic recovery lags behind most states
As of July, Alaska had made up less than half of its COVID-related job losses.
In new cybersecurity incident, Alaska seafood agency hit by ‘nefarious third party’
Another Alaska agency says it’s become the victim of a cybersecurity “incident,” making it the fourth to disclose such a disruption in the past year.