Seasonal flu activity is increasing substantially across the state, and the rate is especially high in Southeast Alaska.
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Critic says merger of grocery giants would hurt Alaskans: ‘You can pretty much name your price’
Weeks after announcing that Kroger and Albertsons grocery stores will merge, the corporations have no explanation for how it will affect customers in Alaska.
Syphilis cases in Alaska continue to climb, compounding the state’s STD challenges
Of all U.S. states, Alaska in 2020 had the nation’s third-highest rates of syphilis and chlamydia.
UAA to permanently expand master’s in social work program with $1.5M grant
The nonprofit Recover Alaska identified a chronic shortage of social workers as a key issue behind the state’s worst-in-the-nation status for alcohol-attributed deaths.
Murkowski, Sullivan support same-sex marriage bill, for different reasons
The Respect for Marriage bill says states can’t, on the bases of race or gender, reject a valid marriage license issued in another state.
After nearly a month, running water restored to homes on St. George Island
After the loss of pressure in the water lines, city crew members scrambled to find the cause.
Bills targeting trans youth are growing more common — and radically reshaping lives
An NPR analysis finds that over the past two years, state lawmakers introduced more than 300 bills targeting trans people. Most of this legislation, 86%, takes aim at the rights of trans youth.
Listen: How American Indian family separation leaves impacts generations later
With that reunion came new questions on what shapes identity, and how generations of displacement of American Indians affects that identity.
‘I watched it rapidly turn into absolute chaos’: Inside the deepening dysfunction at North Star psychiatric hospital
Former workers say understaffing and decisions by management pushed the private psychiatric hospital — the only one in Alaska that serves children — to the brink of disaster.
Experts are concerned Thanksgiving gatherings could accelerate a ‘tripledemic’
As the holiday approaches, infectious disease specialists are bracing for the possibility that big family get-togethers and travel will propel the spread of RSV, flu and COVID-19.