Residents of Southeast Alaska are used to lots of rain and snow. Although precipitation varies greatly across the region, less than 30 inches of precipitation a year is highly unusual. As the climate changes, however, the region has experienced hotter and drier conditions, as well as other unusual weather events. Extreme heat and drought conditions […]
ANCHORAGE – Through the State of Alaska’s Office of Emergency Medical Services (EMS), a new system will soon be available to all state-licensed, ground-based, 911-responding services in Alaska to help improve emergency pediatric care. Alaska EMS is partnering with Handtevy, a company specializing in EMS pediatric technology, to offer EMS agencies a pediatric resuscitation system […]
WASHINGTON – In an indictment unsealed Thursday, a federal grand jury in Anchorage, charged an Alaska dentist and his wife with tax evasion, conspiring to defraud the United States, bankruptcy fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and other federal crimes. According to the indictment, from approximately 2013 to present, Glenn and Saray Lockwood, of Kenai, evaded […]
ANCHORAGE — Congressional candidate Tara Sweeney has received the endorsement of Koniag and Cook Inlet Region Inc. (CIRI), two Alaska Native Corporations, in her bid for Alaska’s lone Congressional seat. “It’s an honor to be endorsed by two Alaska Native Corporations that work to strengthen the state economy and the lives of so many Alaska Native […]