During the darkest days of Alaska’s winter, black-capped chickadees stuff themselves with enough seeds and frozen insects to survive 18-hour nights. Where the chickadees spend those long nights was a mystery until a biologist tracked them. Susan Sharbaugh spent many winter nights trying to find out how a creature as light as a handful of […]
A meeting to take public comments about phase 1B – which includes those aged 75 and older and front-line essential workers – of Alaska’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution will be held online this afternoon, Dec. 28. The Alaska Vaccine Allocation Advisory Committee will use these comments, along with recommendations from CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, […]
DHSS today announced 126 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 124 were residents in: Anchorage (62), Wasilla (19), Palmer (13), Fairbanks (5), Eagle River (4), Chugiak (3), Utqiaġvik (3), Kodiak (2), North Pole (2) one each in Bethel, Bethel Census Area, Juneau, Kenai, Kotzebue, Nikiski, Nome, Soldotna, Valdez-Cordova Census Area/Copper River Basin, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area and […]
AST revealed that five Chignik Lake residents were rescued while one body was recovered and one remains missing after a tragic Saturday afternoon incident there. At 3:16 pm on Saturday afternoon, Fairbanks troopers were alerted that a skiff with three aboard had capsized while transporting a snow machine on its bow after encountering a wave […]