The maps put 200 more structures in Juneau’s hazard zones for landslides and avalanches.
Claire Stremple
Alaska News Reporter
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Juneau requires masks in city facilities amid increase in COVID-19 cases
The facilities include City Hall, Augustus Brown Pool, Dimond Park Aquatic Center, Downtown Public Library, Mendenhall Valley Public Library, Douglas Public Library, Juneau-Douglas City Museum, and Zach Gordon Youth Center.
Alaska’s getting millions this year to study landslides, but not for places recently impacted by deadly slides
State program officials say it will take a lot of money and many more years to do the kind of landslide assessment work the state needs.
State to measure extent of toxic chemical spread in Gustavus
This project’s goal is to monitor what’s called a “plume” — the area where the chemicals have moved over time through soil and groundwater.
Construction begins at Juneau’s Bartlett Hospital, $14 million behavioral health building to come by next winter
Right now, the behavioral health department has only one inpatient bed for youth. The new facility will have 8 beds that can be used for adults or children. Currently, behavioral health patients who need to stay in a hospital must travel to Anchorage.
Alaska patients have reduced access to out-of-state telehealth appointments as emergency declarations end
Doctors are usually required by the state to have a license to provide telehealth services to a patient located in Alaska. But when COVID-19 hit, the Alaska Legislature passed a bill that waived that requirement.
At home in an avalanche path: Why Juneauites buy and keep homes in a hazard zone
Decades of studies have pointed to the very real possibility of a big, destructive slide in this Juneau neighborhood’s future. But a mix of personal choices and policy decisions keeps people in at-risk areas.
A pandemic rule change could make it easier to get treatment for opioid addiction in Alaska
Buprenorphine typically requires an in-person visit for a prescription because it is categorized as a controlled substance. It works to block withdrawal symptoms but doesn’t get users high like heroin or fentanyl do.
Tiny insects ate the needles off a half million acres of Tongass hemlocks. Most of the trees will be fine.
Scientists are tracking the damage. They want to know the extent of the forest affected and how many trees don’t pull through.
‘We need to be doing this work’: Tlingit and Haida takes on mental health and wellness with new division
The new division will offer programs aimed at prevention, treatment and recovery, as well as providing regular mental health care to tribal citizens.