NOME – Many rural communities across Alaska continue to experience the spread of COVID-19, yet a significant number of villages lack the resources and facilities necessary to enact protective measures if a positive case occurs. Even some places that have adequate facilities to combat the pandemic face bureaucratic barriers to make every resource at […]
WHITE HOUSE – Amid the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. President Donald Trump attracted a crowd of thousands to his latest political rally at a North Carolina airport Tuesday evening. Trump marveled at a crowd he said totaled 15,000 people –- a number that reporters on site said was exaggerated. The rally was attended by 14,600 people and several […]
DHSS today announced 35 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 35 are residents in 12 communities: Anchorage (17), Fairbanks (4), Juneau (3), Utqiaġvik (2), Wasilla (2) and one each for Homer, Kotzebue, North Pole, Northwest Arctic Borough, Palmer, Sitka and Unalaska. No new nonresident cases were reported. One resident case has been removed […]
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday the Republican-led Senate will vote “as soon as this week” on COVID-19 relief legislation after negotiations with Democrats broke off last month. “It does not contain every idea our party likes. I am confident Democrats will feel the same. Yet Republicans believe the many serious differences […]