Nine top level officials at the Anchorage Health Department have left or been fired since Mayor Dave Bronson took office in July.
Alaska coronavirus news
Live updates and information on COVID-19 in Juneau and Alaska
Petersburg COVID cases drop to single digits for the first time since October
Petersburg’s total number of cases since the start of the pandemic is now at 570, with three deaths.
Alaskans we’ve lost to COVID: John Redmond Evans Sr., hardworking dad
Born in Galena in 1943, Evans got an electrician’s degree in Kansas. That’s where he met his wife, Sophie, whom he married in 1965 and started a family with in Kotzebue.
Anchorage Assembly ends its indoor mask mandate
If not addressed, the mandate would’ve automatically ended on Dec. 14.
Alaska health care workers plead for reason as COVID misinformation persists
Alaska health care professionals say some patients continue to request unproven COVID-19 treatments like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, and a small number of doctors actually prescribe them despite the lack of data supporting their effectiveness.
Inside the growing alliance between anti-vaccine activists and pro-Trump Republicans
The synergy between real politics and imagined dangers that is bringing the pro-Trump movement and anti-vaccine activists together. But the result of this union increasingly appears to be an even higher death toll from COVID-19.