Reminder: The DHSS COVID-19 Data Hub will no longer be updated on the weekends or state holidays and case count summaries will not be emailed or posted on social media. The Monday summary will include aggregated numbers for the previous three days. DHSS today announced 250 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 163 were residents […]
(Anchorage, AK) – The Alaska Department of Public Safety’s Statewide Drug Enforcement Unit (SDEU) has released its annual drug report highlighting trends in illegal narcotics trafficking in Alaska. The annual report presented to the Alaska Legislature details reported street prices for illicit drugs, the impressive amount of illicit drugs and alcohol seized by the SDEU, […]
Glass beads the size of blueberries found by archeologists in a Brooks Range house-pit might be the first European item ever to arrive in North America, predating the arrival of Columbus by a few decades. Made in Venice, Italy, the tiny blue beads might have travelled more than 10,000 miles in the skin pockets of […]
DHSS today announced 184 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 158 were residents in: Anchorage (31), Bethel Census Area (28), Wasilla (18), Kusilvak Census Area (17), Fairbanks (16), Palmer (14), Bethel (9), North Pole (4), Juneau (3), Chugiak (2), Dillingham Census Area (2), Eagle River (2), Ketchikan (2), Valdez-Cordova Census Area/Copper River (2) and one each […]