The results put the U.S. further away from a viable replacement rate – the standard for a generation being able to replicate its numbers.
Family
Juneau’s child care providers concerned by proposed licensing changes
Proposed regulations may make it harder for child care facilities statewide to do business. In Juneau, some daycare directors say the new rules would reduce capacity and worsen the shortage of affordable child care.
Study finds 42 percent of Southwest Alaska’s children live in poverty
A new study says that 42 percent of children in Southwestern Alaska live below the federal poverty line. Child poverty in Western Alaska is higher than the statewide average, according to the study by Alaska Children’s Trust, a non-profit organization focused on preventing child abuse and neglect.
As opioids land more women in prison, Ohio finds alternative treatments
Ohio Reformatory for Women was built in 1916 but has expanded beyond the original stone structure. Nowadays, they’re doing more to enable women to succeed outside the prison and hopefully stay out.
After clients discover backlog, Juneau pet cremation business owner says he’ll make good
When Tammy Hunt’s boxer Bob died, she hired a local pet cremation service to take care of the remains. Weeks later, she hadn’t heard from the business, which led to a startling discovery.
For this expat mom, raising healthy girls means going to prison
A Sitka woman is in prison, pending extradition to the United Kingdom to face charges that she abducted her children to the United States. She says she left an abusive situation for her and her children.
At an Anchorage homeless shelter, an unexpected birth
The life story of a baby boy named Kahleel began one morning in January at The Salvation Army’s McKinnell House, a homeless shelter for families on the edge of downtown Anchorage.
Long ago, Patsy Ann left her mark on historic Juneau, but where?
The children’s book, “Patsy Ann of Alaska: the true story of a dog” says the bull terrier, Patsy Ann, pushed her paw prints into sidewalk cement. But do they actually exist?
Father of Anchorage 5-year-old who died of self-inflicted gunshot wound approved for house arrest
The parents of a 5-year-old who accidentally killed himself Tuesday with a gunshot to the head were in federal court Wednesday.
UAS student first in U.S. to receive Tsimshian language credential
A University of Alaska Southeast student Victoria McKoy presented her capstone project Nov. 30 at the UAS Ketchikan Campus Library and will be the first ever to receive credentials in Tsimshian language studies.