AST is investigating the circumstances surrounding an incident where a teen suffered burns at a bonfire on the Dyke near North Pole that occurred early Sunday morning, they report on the dispatch. Troopers in Fairbanks were alerted by hospital staff at Fairbanks Memorial’s emergency room at just after midnight on Sunday morning that they were […]
“The Trump administration put politics over people’s lives.” A top-to-bottom review of Trump-era coronavirus guidance has identified public health recommendations issued under the banner of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that were “not primarily authored” by agency staff or backed by the best existing scientific evidence. Ordered by current CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, […]
One campaigner called her confirmation “a tremendous win for Indigenous communities, the waters, parks, and lands across our country, and the climate.” A diverse coalition of progressive and Indigenous figures and organizations on Monday celebrated the Senate’s confirmation of Deb Haaland to head the Department of the Interior—making the New Mexico Democrat and Green New […]
DHSS today announced 383 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska over the past three days. 372 were residents in: Anchorage (103), Wasilla (80), Eagle River (24), Fairbanks (21), Delta Junction (18), Palmer (18), Bethel Census Area (17), Chugiak (15), Juneau (10), North Pole (9), Ketchikan (6), Soldotna (6), Homer (5), Kenai (5), Southeast Fairbanks Census Area […]