Despite an enrollment period that was half as long, nearly 9 million people have signed up for Affordable Care Act insurance for 2018 so far, about the same as last year.
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Video premiere: ‘How to Say Goodbye’
Christy NaMee Eriksen’s new poem “How To Say Goodbye” follows a pair of friends over a lifetime. It’s dedicated to her late friend Amy Henderson.
Homer fishermen grapple with cod decline
Regulators voted to slash Gulf of Alaska Pacific cod allocations 80 percent earlier this month after a massive decline in stocks. That has fishermen and processors around the Gulf deciding what to do when the season kicks off in January.
Life expectancy drops again as opioid deaths surge in U.S.
The opioid epidemic caused U.S. life expectancy to fall for the second year in a row, marking the first time that has happened since the early 1960s. Death rates also continued to rise.
Spending bill allocates $200M for Fort Greely interceptors
Congress passed a short-term spending bill today that includes one longer-term project for Alaska: the bill allocates $200 million to build a fourth field of underground missile silos at Fort Greely, near Fairbanks.
Alaska’s only tribal college will waive tuition for Alaska Native students
The ultimate goal of the waiver program is to encourage more Alaska Native students to finish their associate degrees and go on to get their bachelor’s.
Trump lauds Arctic Refuge passage; Young: ‘We finally got it done’
Alaska’s members of Congress celebrated their success Wednesday in opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. The measure passed in the Republican tax bill with a final vote in the House.
State’s latest water quality report has bad news for popular Kenai River
Each time the state puts out its water quality report, there’s good news and there’s bad news.
Two Juneau men arrested for felony parole violations
Two different Juneau residents were picked up on separate felony arrest warrants this week: 29-year-old Charles Smith Carroll and 25-year-old Blake Kai Storey.
Two arrested in Juneau for murder in Anchorage cold case from 1995
A grand jury indicted two Juneau men each on one count of second-degree murder in the death of Jerry Dillivan. Dillivan was 25 when he was killed in 1995.