Calls about a brush fire on the beach started rolling in to Capital City Fire/Rescue at about 11:30 a.m. Saturday.
Rashah McChesney
Daily News Editor
I help the newsroom establish daily news priorities and do hands-on editing to ensure a steady stream of breaking and enterprise news for a local and regional audience.
As Alaska starts to reopen, it’s already too little, too late for some small businesses
New research suggests that a lot of small businesses across the country are financially fragile. Three-quarters of them said they only had enough cash on hand to cover two months of expenses.
Alaska’s confirmed COVID-19 cases climbed for 6 weeks. On Friday, they stopped.
However, the reprieve won’t last, as a resident of a Sitka long-term care center tested positive for the case Saturday.
More Alaskans have recovered from COVID-19 than are currently sick with it, but what does that mean?
The state’s data shows that recovering from the virus can take Alaskans anywhere from four days to more than a month.
Alyse Galvin has outraised Don Young in US House race
This is Galvin’s second run at Young. She also outraised him in the 2018 campaign, but lost by seven percentage points.
Alaska businesses got $922 million from PPP before the federal well ran dry
The average loan amount was $190,000.
Saturday update: 5 new Alaskans diagnosed with COVID-19
State health officials are reporting that three women and two men tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday.
2 more staffers at Lemon Creek Correctional Center test positive for COVID-19
Six staff at the jail have now tested positive for the virus.
Bartlett is losing $250,000 a day in revenue after ban on non-urgent surgeries
City hospital reports spending $600,000 on equipment, supplies and labor preparing for the COVID-19 pandemic.
11 new COVID-19 cases in Alaska, including 1 in Craig
Eleven more Alaskans were diagnosed with COVID-19 on Friday. The newly diagnosed Alaskans are nine people from Anchorage, and one each from the Matanuska Susitna Borough and Prince of Wales island. The state reported the new information Saturday. There’s a 24 hour lag between when cases are identified and when the state releases the data. …