Walker: ‘Today, my thoughts are with those who have struggled with addiction or lost a loved one to opioids’ ANCHORAGE – The State of Alaska this week announced a settlement with pharmaceutical companies that manufacture opioids and played a role in perpetuating the public health crisis that harmed countless Alaskans. $26 billion will be distributed nationally […]
Last August, President Joe Biden signed an executive order setting a goal for half of the new vehicles sold in the United States to be electric by 2030. Four months later, on Dec. 21, Biden released a plan calling for the government to build a half-million charging stations across the country to power those vehicles. […]
OVERVIEW – 648 new cases | 0 deaths* | 71 hospitalizations | Statewide alert level: high | 59.2% of Alaskans 5+ vaccinated * – As of the week starting on Feb. 6, newly accounted COVID-19 deaths will be reported weekly on Wednesdays. Please see this webpage for more information on the process used to report COVID-19 deaths: dhss.alaska.gov/dph/epi/id/pages/covid-19/deathcounts.aspx. […]
According to AST, as Prince of Wales-based Alaska State Trooper personnel were participating in a telephonic court arraignment in the case of 68-year-old Hydaburg resident Gideon Duncan Jr, the defendant began to experience an unknown medical incident at approximately 9:30 am. Duncan, who was at the Craig Jail at the time of the incident, had […]