Washington, D.C. – Last night, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5119, bipartisan legislation introduced by Congressman Don Young (R-AK-AL) and Congressman Tom O’Halleran (D-AZ-01) to extend the coverage of Coronavirus Relief Fund payments allocated under the 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to tribal governments from December 30, 2021, to December 30, 2022. The […]
ANCHORAGE – A federal indictment unsealed today charges a Canadian national with committing cyberattacks. According to court documents, Matthew Philbert, 31, of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, conspired with others known and unknown to the United States to damage computers, and in the course of that conspiracy did damage a computer belonging to the State of Alaska […]
UAS professor Eran Hood is part of a team of scientists who found that the retreat of glaciers in Alaska and British Columbia’s coastal temperate rainforest could produce more than 3,800 miles of potential new Pacific salmon habitat by the year 2100. A new study in the journal Nature Climate Change, lead by researchers at […]
OVERVIEW – 441 new cases | 3 deaths | 76 hospitalizations | Statewide alert level: high | 56% of Alaskans 5+ vaccinated NOTE – Please note that beginning Monday, Dec. 6, 2021, DHSS will be updating data on the Alaska COVID-19 Information Hub three times weekly (Monday, Wednesday and Friday excluding holidays) instead of five times weekly (Monday through […]