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Sep 07 2017
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Chase McKinney and Israel Lopez rescue families in Houston after Hurricane Harvey. (Photo courtesy Chase McKinney)

Former Anchor Point resident works to help Texans after Hurricane Harvey

By | Community, Public Safety, Southcentral, Weather

As Hurricane Irma barrels through the Caribbean and onward to the Southeastern U.S., the relief effort still is underway in Texas after hurricane Harvey devastated Houston. A former Anchor Point resident, who now lives on the southwest corner of the city, spent three days responding to the disaster.

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Sep 03 2017
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Discarded needles at the Four A’s syringe exchange in Anchorage. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/Alaska Public Media)

Syringe exchange struggles to keep up with demand

By | Alcohol & Substance Abuse, Community, Health, Southcentral

The state’s main syringe exchange can’t keep up with demand for clean needles among injection drug users. The Alaska AIDS Assistance Association, or Four A’s, collects used syringes in its Anchorage office and gives out new supplies, primarily to people using heroin and other opioids.

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Sep 02 2017
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Wesley Nicoll builds a planter as part of the vocational education program at Wildwood Correctional Center in July 2017. (Photo by Anne Hillman/Alaska Public Media)

Building a future after prison through vocational education

By | Community, Crime & Courts, Southcentral

In Alaska, two-thirds of people who leave prison end up going back within three years. But former inmates who can find decent jobs within a year of release are half as likely to re-offend, according to an Alaska Department of Labor report. So how does the Department of Corrections want to cut recidivism? By teaching the trades.

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