The Food and Drug Administration has formally approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. The widely anticipated decision replaces the emergency use authorization granted by the agency last December.
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Alaska-based veterans reflect on Afghanistan, resurgence of Taliban
The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan has been watched closely by veterans of the 20-year war. That includes many based or formerly based in Alaska, which is said to have a higher percentage of veterans than any other state.
With no mask mandate, Anchorage businesses are left to decide what they’ll risk for public health
COVID-19 cases are surging in Anchorage again, but this time there’s no municipal mask mandate and no authority telling businesses how to keep the disease from spreading.
Officials suspend search for Oregon man missing in Juneau
Joseph Clayton is described as wearing a white shirt, jeans and carrying a backpack. He’s got brown hair, hazel eyes, weighs about 220 pounds and he is 6 feet, 2 inches tall.
Alaska biologists say wood bison reintroduced to the wild are thriving
State biologists completed an annual survey of the Innoko-Yukon River wood bison population earlier this summer, and they say the results show the animals are doing well six years after a seed group of bison was released in the area.
Up to $3,600 available to Tlingit and Haida members, Goldbelt shareholders
Tlingit and Haida’s program is funded by the American Rescue Plan Act. Goldbelt’s funding comes from last year’s CARES Act.
Glacier Bay whales bouncing back after marine heat wave
The numbers aren’t quite up to where they used to be, but Chris Gabriel, a biologist with the park service, expects the population to stay healthy — as long as ocean conditions stay stable.
Anchorage doctors sound alarm about ‘imminent’ hospital system collapse
At a last-minute Assembly health update, doctors who work at Anchorage’s main hospitals described heart-wrenching scenes from the last week of last goodbyes to unvaccinated loved ones, nurses quitting their jobs due to burnout, and infants hospitalized for severe cases of COVID-19.
Newscast – Aug. 20, 2021
Two more pandemic relief programs opened this week that thousands of Tlingit and Haida tribal members and Goldbelt shareholders are eligible for,
Juneau emergency officials repeatedly stressed the danger of the delta variant of coronavirus after they raised the community’s risk level,
Former state Rep. Les Gara announced that he’s running for governor,
Juneau’s public libraries are reducing their hours so that staff can be reassigned to the city’s emergency operations center to help with the city’s COVID-19 response
Dunleavy’s proposed $2,350 PFD scrutinized by lawmakers
State budget director Neil Steininger said the governor still wants the Legislature to pass the constitutional amendments he’s proposed, to enshrine the PFD in the state constitution and lower the state’s spending limit.