November 12, 2021 (Anchorage) – Today, Governor Mike Dunleavy commended the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on its decision to halt the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for businesses with 100 or more workers. The court on Saturday had issued a temporary stay, pending its deliberations this week. “For a federal court of appeals […]
OVERVIEW – 879 new cases | 0 deaths | 133 hospitalizations | Statewide alert level: high 54% of Alaskans 5+ vaccinated TAKE ACTION – Choosing to get vaccinated is the single most important action you can take to protect yourself and your community and to keep our economy strong. Learn more about the vaccines at covidvax.alaska.gov and the CDC’s recommendations […]
A bar-tailed godwit recently arrived in New Zealand on its second attempt to get there from Alaska, after a storm had blasted it back north. Keith Woodley of the Pukorokoro Miranda Shorebird Centre on the North Island of New Zealand reported that a male godwit carrying a satellite transmitter first left the mudflats near the […]
(Fairbanks, AK) – The Fairbanks District Attorney’s Office Friday charged 34-year-old Anthony Lee Frey with Attempted Murder in the First Degree for repeatedly ramming and shooting at a vehicle on Monday, November 8, 2021. The driver of the other vehicle did not know Frey. For this charge, Frey faces a sentencing range of five to 99 […]