ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs renewed a transportation grant in the amount of $250,000 to the State of Alaska Office of Veterans Affairs to provide transportation options to veterans residing in five rural areas who need to travel to health care services. “Last fiscal year, this grant reached out to more […]
The U.S. agency that oversees health care for the country’s 21 million military veterans has fired four senior executives as it attempts to end long wait times for patients seeking medical care. The firings at the Department of Veterans Affairs are the first since Congress made it easier for the agency to get rid of […]
Early Thursday morning, at 6:37 am, a call went in to authorities from a staff member at the Wasilla Veterans Affairs Clinic at 865 North Seward Meridian Parkway reporting a suspicious duffle bag with wires protruding from it near the back door of the clinic. She informed troopers that she had not touched the item […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – With national concerns about cover-ups of “secret waiting lists” being used by VA systems in Arizona, Colorado, Indiana and other states to manipulate internal data, Senator Lisa Murkowski today reached out to VA Secretary General Eric Shinseki. In her letter seeking answers for Alaska, Murkowski asked the administration whether Alaska’s VA has fraudulent lists. […]