Gorman is one of only a handful of poets to perform at a presidential inauguration. At age 22, she’s also the youngest.
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Man arrested in Seattle after allegedly threatening a Ketchikan-bound Alaska Airlines flight
The 30 passengers and five crew eventually departed Seattle on a replacement plane after a roughly seven-hour delay.
COVID-19 closes a third Aleutian plant, stranding Bering Sea fishermen at the dock
In the Aleutian port town of Unalaska, at least five local boats are stuck at the dock with nowhere to deliver their cod after the shutdown of the Alyeska Seafoods processing plant
Concern about Alaska’s foster care future under Dunleavy plan to split state health department
President Richard Peterson said Tribes should have been consulted before the state rolled out the proposal, not after. He notes that most children in Alaska’s foster system are Alaska Native.
‘She’s been through a pandemic before’: Bethel elder who had COVID-19 is one of the first to get vaccine
Xenia Jackson’s first experience with a pandemic was during the tuberculosis outbreaks of the 20th century when she worked as a village health aide. She tested positive for COVID-19 last year and is one of the first people to get vaccinated in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Newscast – Friday, Jan. 22, 2021
In this newscast: One of Alaska’s largest fish processing plants is shutting down as a COVID-19 outbreak grows; A former tribal police officer from Akiachak in the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta died from COVID-19 and his family found a new way to say goodbye; One of Royal Caribbean International’s largest ships won’t be deployed to Alaska in 2021; Pebble Limited Partnership has filed an appeal with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.