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After a missed year, Alaska State Fair vendors say things feel almost normal, despite pandemic risk
The 2020 Alaska State Fair was canceled due to COVID-19 risk. This year, you’d hardly know there’s a pandemic, said some vendors.
Yukon-Kuskokwim health CEO urges governor to mandate masks and encourage required vaccination
As COVID-19 cases surge across the state, Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation President and CEO Dan Winkelman is urging Gov. Mike Dunleavy to instate public health restrictions to contain the virus’ spread.
Alaska-based vets reflect on Afghanistan, resurgence of Taliban
The withdrawal of the U.S. military from Afghanistan has been watched closely by veterans of the 20-year war, who’ve expressed a range of emotions and opinions as the Taliban have once again swept into power.
Alaska-rooted Portugal. The Man surprised Anchorage high school with live concert
The band showed up on Dimond High School’s football field after the student government won a district-wide video contest.
Yukon subsistence users go to new lengths for food after chums don’t return
Subsistence fishing on the lower Yukon River is closed for both king and chum salmon. Residents who usually depend heavily on the fish are pivoting toward other ways to get meat.
These Anchorage residents waited until August to get a COVID vaccine. Here’s why they’re finally getting the shot.
About 1,000 Alaskans are getting vaccinated each weekday. Some say they're driven by fears from new waves of infection, employer mandates or border crossing requirements.
Without safety net of mandates, Anchorage’s overtaxed, understaffed hospitals brace for more patients
As Alaska hospitals near capacity, health care experts say they're not sure the latest COVID surge will peak quickly, as it did in other countries. They point out that thousands of unvaccinated Alaska children are returning to classrooms this week — many in school districts where masks are optional.
2020 census data is out. Here’s how Alaska has changed in the last 10 years.
The share of Alaska’s population that identifies as a race or ethnicity other than solely white rose from less than a third of the population to more than than 40%.
Boom in COVID testing prompts Anchorage to open new drive-through site
Daily demand for tests in August is nearly quadruple the June average.
Alaska seeks to collect more than 20,000 missing DNA samples from people charged with crimes
Alaska law requires that state and local law enforcement agencies collect DNA samples from all people charged with a crime against another person or a felony. But over the past 25 years, that hasn't happened in thousands of cases.
As Juneau’s COVID cases skyrocket, hospital staff are testing positive too
Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau is seeing more COVID-19 cases among its staff as the number of infections in the capital city rises and the community's risk level returns to high.
‘We want Indigenous people to look at Anchorage as their place’: First markers in Dena’ina place name project go up
After decades of work, markers to recognize Dena'ina place names around Anchorage were finally erected earlier this year. Advocates say it's long overdue.
COVID-19 patients at Alaska’s hospitals are mostly younger, sicker and unvaccinated
Alaska has reached yet another inflection point in the coronavirus pandemic. But it looks different this time.
Juneau artist’s Lingít “Raven Story” postage stamp enters circulation
A ceremony in Juneau celebrated the first stamp ever designed by a Lingít artist and the importance of the design and its story to the people who live in Lingít Aaní today.
Killer whale stranded on Prince of Wales Island frees itself
A killer whale that beached itself on Prince of Wales Island on Thursday has freed itself, according to federal biologists.
Major quake hits off the coast of Alaska, triggers tsunami warnings but no large waves
A major earthquake struck near the Alaska Peninsula at 10:15 p.m. Wednesday, triggering tsunami warnings for much of the Gulf of Alaska coastline but no major waves.
Skill and tradition honored at 60th anniversary World Eskimo-Indian Olympics
The 2021 World Eskimo-Indian Olympics drew a smaller crowd this year due to the pandemic but the athletes were no less impressive. These photos tell the tale.
Seward’s Lydia Jacoby wins gold in Tokyo Olympics
Lydia Jacoby won Alaska’s first Olympic swimming gold medal Monday night, beating the world and Olympic record holders in the women’s 100-meter breaststroke.
Seward’s Lydia Jacoby cruises through Olympic semifinal
Lydia Jacoby, 17 from Seward, cruised through her Olympic semi-final, winning her heat and posting the third-fastest time of the day in the women's 100-meter breaststroke.
First Lady visits Anchorage. Her message: Get vaccinated
"I'm asking all of you, who are listening right now, to choose to get vaccinated," said First Lady Jill Biden.