For the 2018-2019 academic year, the University of Alaska will reduce tuition rates by 25 percent in selected Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs. As an example, the 2018-2019 lower division course tuition is currently $212 per credit, with the tuition reduction, the cost would be $159 per credit. This will apply to our occupational […]
The United States Coast Guard reported on Saturday that they lifted an 87-year-old woman and her nurse from the M/V The World after she began exhibiting symptoms of a heart attack while the ship was in the vicinity of Unimak Island. The woman, and her nurse, were taken aboard a Kodiak Air Station MH-65 Dolphin […]
A second nurse has been confirmed to have contracted Ebola connected with the care of Thomas Eric Duncan. Director of the Center for Disease Control Dr Thomas Frieden says that the health worker boarded a commercial airliner from Cleveland to Dallas on Monday just one day before she reported the symptoms of the deadly pathogen. […]
Protocols are being tightened up concerning the Ebola virus after the first case of Ebola contracted in the United States was uncovered on Sunday. 26-year-old Nina Pham, one of the nurses caring for the Ebola victim, Thomas Eric Duncan, who died last week from the deadly contagion, tested positive for the vvirus, un-nerving neighbors and […]