Nationally, the report from Pew Charitable Trusts says COVID spending amounting to 25% of all federal grants to states in 2020, second only to Medicaid, the health insurance program for the poor.
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Many students returned to Kenai Peninsula schools after enrollment decline in 2020
Last year, there were almost 1,700 fewer kids in the district’s brick and mortar schools, as parents opted for private school or homeschool.
Pandemic relief will help build new homes in overcrowded Bering Straits communities
Bering Straits Regional Housing Authority received additional funds from COVID-related grants and can afford to build more homes in 2022.
‘Tidal Network’, Tlingit & Haida’s new broadband internet service, coming to Wrangell
Wrangell is ideal because there are people with spotty service, but it’s not such a remote community that the Tribe would struggle to get people and equipment to town.
Child protective service worker in Bethel charged with sexual assault of an adult
Several local non-profit organizations that he is a board member of are evaluating whether to remove Jon Cochrane from his positions.
Newscast – Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021
In this newscast: No damage reported after a moderate earthquake strikes in Lake Clark National Park; A nonprofit report shows that federal COVID money pumped up federal grants to Alaska in 2020 by nearly a third; A Delta junction man accused of threatening to kill Alaska’s U.S. senators files paperwork to change his not guilty plea; Alaska’s top epidemiologist discusses the state’s status with the omicron variant;
The Alaska Police Standards Council elects a chair without a law enforcement background for the first time in decades; The Alaska Wildlife Alliance publishes a report on people and dogs accidentally caught in traps