Reporting data for July 20-26, 2022 OVERVIEW – 2,946 new cases | 0 newly reported deaths | 83 hospitalizations | 29.7% of Alaskans 5+ boosted WEEKLY UPDATE – DOH updates all COVID-19 dashboards weekly on Wednesdays. For the latest on COVID-19 in Alaska, read the DOH weekly update and DOH data summaries: health.alaska.gov/dph/Epi/id/Pages/COVID-19/communications.aspx Notes: Layering protective measures, including vaccination, masking, […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — June job numbers were up 2.5 percent over June 2021, an increase of 7,900 jobs but still 20,100 below June 2019’s pre-pandemic level. Over-the-year growth was strongest in leisure and hospitality (10.7 percent), although at 38,200 total jobs, the industry remained well below June 2019 (42,800). A few sectors have recovered to […]
The Chugach National Forest, second largest in Alaska, was penned into being on July 23, 1907 by President Theodore Roosevelt. Originally 23 million acres, it has shrank in size through the years, but, the temperate rain forest still spans the Chugach mountain range surrounding Prince William Sound to the eastern Kenai Peninsula and also includes […]
What would you say is one of the inventions created in the last half of the twentieth century that powers our modern economy? Maybe the computer? Perhaps cell phones? GPS? How about the internet? There is one product, invented in the United States that makes all those, and so many other inventions, possible: the semiconductor […]