The U.S. Forest Service says one of Southeast’s best bear-viewing sites has been under-utilized for decades, but the agency is updating infrastructure and re-tooling visitor permits to increase access.
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Alaska lawmakers and telehealth providers work to improve access to contraceptives
Recent polling suggests that a majority of Alaskans support easy access to contraceptives. But that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s easy for patients to get them — especially in rural areas.
Ketchikan Indian Community’s new president says she’ll push for greater access to traditional foods
She also plans to keep pushing for a ban on tailings dams that hold back mine waste along cross-border rivers.
Ketchikan and Wrangell are running out of at-home COVID tests
At-home tests are in short supply across the country and throughout the state.
November wind storm left much of Wrangell’s critical infrastructure in the dark
There’s not backup generation for Wrangell’s water treatment plant. The water plant stopped filtering and treating source water from the reservoirs for a few hours during the November outage.
‘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.