Ketchikan’s fire department is coping with a growing number of emergency calls.
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Tribes, State Troopers increase access to justice for Alaska Native survivors of domestic violence
Alaska State Troopers received new training in October aimed at keeping tribal citizens safer.
A conversation with Alaska’s exorcist
Sitka’s new Catholic priest has an unusual skill set – he’s also the official exorcist for the Catholic Church in Alaska.
Alaska pays millions to respond to domestic violence. Advocates want millions to prevent it
They say significant increases in prevention work and community level support are necessary to slow the rate of domestic violence.
This drug prevents HIV transmission, and it’s free. Why can’t some Alaskans get it?
Under the Affordable Care Act, PrEP is supposed to be free under almost all insurance.
To prevent domestic violence, Alaska schools teach healthy relationships
The Lower Kuskokwim School District’s itinerant social workers are a model for how curriculum and mentorship can reach even the most remote schools.
A Petersburg family is trying to change Alaska’s workers’ comp laws in honor of their daughter
One family in Petersburg, whose only daughter was killed on the job, is trying to change Alaska’s workers compensation laws.
Alaska doctor wheels hope to survivors of traumatic brain injury in his ‘Brain Bus’
He says treatment can help unhoused people, survivors of domestic violence.
Domestic Violence in Alaska: Advocates link Alaska’s high rate of traumatic brain injury with domestic violence
Alaska has the highest rate of deaths from traumatic brain injury in the nation and among the highest rates of domestic violence, but it is only recently that advocates and caregivers began to link the two.
As some medical debt disappears from Americans’ credit reports, scores are rising
“This is a very significant change,” said Breno Braga, an economist at the Urban Institute and a co-author of the study. “It affects a lot of people.”