DHSS today announced one death of an Alaska resident and 217 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 210 were residents in: Anchorage (64), Eagle River (33), Wasilla (28), Fairbanks (23), Palmer (13), Kodiak (8), North Pole (6), Dillingham Census Area (4), Bethel (3), Ketchikan (3), Soldotna (3), Valdez-Cordova Census Area/Copper River Basin (3), Bethel Census Area (2), Chugiak (2), Delta Junction (2), Kenai Peninsula Borough North (2) […]
Two Year Upgrade of Alaska’s Automated Fingerprint System Will Help Solve Crimes Faster December 29, 2020 (Anchorage, AK) – After years of planning and months of testing, the upgrade to Alaska’s portion of the Western Identification Network (WIN) Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) has been successfully completed. Alaska, the first state to upgrade among the […]
This may be the first time data collected using uncrewed surface vehicles were used to help produce an annual estimate of abundance for a commercial fish stock. Every other year, NOAA Fisheries conducts an acoustic-trawl survey from crewed research vessels to measure pollock abundance in Alaska’s eastern Bering Sea. As a result of COVID-19, many […]
KODIAK, Alaska — The Coast Guard rescued four boaters Friday from Yamani Islets, 27 miles south of Sitka, Alaska. A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew hoisted the four boaters, a 50-year-old female, and her three children ages; 21, 17, and 13 from shore after their 15-foot vessel capsized. The helicopter crew transported […]