Reporting data for July 13-19, 2022 OVERVIEW – 3,815 new cases | 0 newly reported deaths | 67 hospitalizations* | 29.5% of Alaskans 5+ boosted * – The hospitalizations total in the overview reflects last week’s data. Due to a technical issue, up-to-date hospitalization data was unavailable when this bulletin was delivered. The Alaska Department of Health (DOH) is […]
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer should “do everything in his power” to immediately reinsert insulin price negotiation and a $35 monthly cap on out-of-pocket insulin costs into Democrats’ emerging reconciliation bill, said one expert. Hundreds of people affected by the United States’ sky-high insulin prices and more than two dozen progressive advocacy groups on Monday told Senate Majority […]
FAIRBANKS and GLENNALLEN, Alaska — On Monday, the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Fairbanks District and Glennallen Field Office rescinded the fire prevention orders temporarily prohibited open fires on the BLM-managed public lands in eastern and central Alaska. Only one fire prevention order remains in place for BLM Alaska. The Fairbanks area Fire Prevention Order AK020-22-001 issued for […]
(Anchorage, AK) – In an effort to support rural Alaska residents who utilize the state’s Power Cost Equalization (PCE) relief, Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy signed Senator Lyman Hoffman’s Senate Bill 243 (SB 243) last week, raising the maximum kilowatt-hour (kWh) available to residential customers from 500 kWh to 750 kWh per month. “For many […]