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|By KTVT Staff
Because of COVID-19 rules, only one of the 14-year-old's parents is allowed in the hospital while he receives treatment for leukemia.
Updated: 2 hours ago
|By KNXV Staff
The two ended up in the same hospital room after they tested positive for the coronavirus a day apart.
Updated: 7 hours ago
|By Associated Press
Trump’s announcement of Barrett for the seat held by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is launching a high-stakes, fast-track election season fight over confirmation of a conservative judge who is expected to shift the court rightward as it reviews health care, abortion access and other hot-button issues.
Updated: 12 hours ago
|By Marlise Irby
111 are residents in 22 communities
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Updated: Sep. 26, 2020 at 12:47 PM AKDT
|By Marlise Irby
This brings the total number of cases to 7,367 among Alaska residents
Updated: Sep. 26, 2020 at 8:39 AM AKDT
|By Associated Press
Many major universities are determined to forge ahead despite warning signs, as evidenced by the expanding slate of college football games occurring Saturday.
Updated: Sep. 25, 2020 at 4:21 PM AKDT
|By Associated Press and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, NICKY FORSTER and JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press
The spread has created new problems at hospitals, schools and colleges in the Midwest, as well as in parts of the West.
Updated: Sep. 25, 2020 at 12:53 PM AKDT
|By Sally French, NerdWallet
There are several less obvious items you may want to bring when you travel that you likely have not prioritized before.
Updated: Sep. 25, 2020 at 12:00 PM AKDT
|By Associated Press
This year’s unusual work-from-home General Assembly comes as COVID-19 cases escalate in many regions but especially in Europe, where some of the world’s most advanced hospitals in some of the world’s richest countries are again under strain.
Updated: Sep. 25, 2020 at 8:10 AM AKDT
|By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
Two former leaders of a Massachusetts home for aging veterans where nearly 80 people sickened by the coronavirus died have been criminally charged for their handling of the outbreak, the state’s attorney general said Friday.
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Updated: Sep. 25, 2020 at 7:45 AM AKDT
|By Beth Verge
As homeless shelters in Anchorage reach max capacity night after night, the municipality is working on reducing the crowds and hopefully, keeping and getting people in homes of their own.
Updated: Sep. 25, 2020 at 5:12 AM AKDT
|By Associated Press
Drugmakers are rushing to develop COVID-19 vaccines with the backing of governments desperate to find a way of easing restrictions that have hammered the world economy.
Updated: Sep. 24, 2020 at 6:17 PM AKDT
For three months, InvestigateTV has tracked federal government data on nursing home COVID-19 cases and deaths. For three months, those numbers have been wrong.
Updated: Sep. 24, 2020 at 1:27 PM AKDT
|By Associated Press
Democrats are going back to the drawing board on a huge virus relief bill.
Updated: Sep. 24, 2020 at 12:39 PM AKDT
|By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and MARYCLAIRE DALE
The biggest threat is posed by sophisticated international fraud rings that often use stolen identities to apply for benefits, filling out the forms with a wealth of accurate information that enables their applications to “sail through the system.”
Updated: Sep. 24, 2020 at 9:09 AM AKDT
|By CNN staff
United Airlines will offer coronavirus testing on flights from San Francisco International Airport to Hawaiian airports. Passengers with negative results won't have to quarantine for two weeks.
Updated: Sep. 24, 2020 at 5:56 AM AKDT
|By Associated Press
There was no way it was being canceled, not on what would have been Lennon’s 80th birthday, not on the tribute’s 40th year.
Updated: Sep. 24, 2020 at 3:59 AM AKDT
|By Associated Press
The comments come as scientists scramble to develop a vaccine that would protect the public from a pandemic that has killed nearly 1 million people worldwide.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2020 at 4:03 PM AKDT
|By Cheyenne Mathews
There are 4,482 Alaska residents with active cases of the virus.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2020 at 3:30 PM AKDT
|By LAURAN NEERGAARD and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
A huge international study of a COVID-19 vaccine that aims to work with just one dose is getting underway as top U.S. health officials sought Wednesday to assure a skeptical Congress and public that they can trust any shots the government ultimately approves.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2020 at 2:40 PM AKDT
|By Associated Press
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican who has steadfastly refused to require residents to wear masks, tested positive for the coronavirus, his office said Wednesday.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2020 at 1:07 PM AKDT
|By Associated Press
Organizers say New Year’s Eve in Times Square will incorporate virtual elements and be scaled down and socially distant on site in response to the coronavirus.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2020 at 6:22 AM AKDT
|By Beth Verge
A virtual Town Hall on Tuesday sought to answer some of the questions many Alaskans have about the state’s coronavirus response.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2020 at 4:08 AM AKDT
|By CNN Staff
Officials say they’ve joined forces with the city of Austin to still plan for physical events, in case they can be held amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2020 at 8:58 PM AKDT
|By Cheyenne Mathews
Butte Elementary School will be closed Wednesday.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2020 at 8:05 PM AKDT
|By Daniella Rivera
Providence Hospital has doubled down on its COVID-19 visitation policy which prohibits visitors in intensive care unit.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2020 at 5:30 PM AKDT
|By Associated Press
Democrats and Republicans in a bitterly divided U.S. House have voted to take a government shutdown off the table this fall, giving a big, bipartisan vote to a temporary government-wide funding bill Tuesday night.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2020 at 1:58 PM AKDT
|By Cheyenne Mathews
There are currently 5,173 active cases of the virus in the state.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2020 at 10:57 AM AKDT
|By Associated Press
The bleak milestone, by far the highest confirmed death toll from the virus in the world, was reported by Johns Hopkins, based on figures supplied by state health authorities.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2020 at 10:13 AM AKDT
|By Associated Press
The league levied hefty fines of $100,000 per coach and $250,000 per club.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2020 at 8:55 AM AKDT
|By WMBF News Staff
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is encouraging Americans to avoid higher-risk Halloween activities like trick-or-treating in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2020 at 7:25 AM AKDT
|By CNN staff
There’s general agreement among the CDC panel that frontline health care workers should be the first to get a vaccine when one is approved, but who gets priority after that?
Updated: Sep. 22, 2020 at 6:39 AM AKDT
|By CNN Staff
Sizzler USA, one of America’s first casual restaurant chains, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as it struggles amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2020 at 4:10 AM AKDT
|By DAVID BAUDER and TRAVIS LOLLER
The story came from a Thursday report by Nashville’s Fox affiliate WZTV on “leaked emails” that the station retracted late Friday upon learning that they didn’t mean what its reporter thought they did.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2020 at 11:08 PM AKDT
|By Gray News staff
A New Hampshire woman was not allowed to stay on an American Airlines flight with her 2-year-old son because he would not wear a mask as the airline requires.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2020 at 5:08 PM AKDT
|By Associated Press
The top U.S. public health agency stirred confusion by posting — and then taking down — an apparent change in its position on how easily the coronavirus can spread from person to person through the air.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2020 at 3:12 PM AKDT
|By Cheyenne Mathews
No new deaths were reported on Monday.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2020 at 12:37 PM AKDT
|By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and MARCY GORDON
The Government Accountability Office, Congress' auditing arm, said in a report Monday that possibly 8.7 million or more individuals who are eligible for the economic impact payments have yet to receive those payments because of inadequate IRS and Treasury Department records.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2020 at 12:06 PM AKDT
|By Associated Press
Health authorities in the U.S. are deeply worried about the resumption of school and college and the onset of cold weather, which will force more people indoors.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2020 at 10:18 AM AKDT
|By Associated Press
The plan permits limited shore excursions and requires passengers to wear masks and stay apart from other people during those excursions. Passengers who don’t comply won’t be allowed to reboard.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2020 at 4:31 AM AKDT
|By CNN Staff
The Environmental Protection Agency has approved Pine-Sol’s original cleaner as a product that can kill coronavirus on frequently used surfaces.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2020 at 12:07 AM AKDT
|By WISN Staff
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention instituted a national eviction moratorium in early September that lasts through the end of the year.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2020 at 10:32 PM AKDT
|By WESH Staff
The principal called the Hooters mask "offensive to women and inappropriate," and the school district says it violates student dress code.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2020 at 2:10 PM AKDT
|By Marlise Irby
This brings the total number of cases to 7,767 among residents and nonresidents
Updated: Sep. 20, 2020 at 1:01 PM AKDT
|By Associated Press
Joe Biden is using the sudden Supreme Court vacancy to reinforce his argument that the upcoming election should be a referendum on President Donald Trump’s handling of health care and the coronavirus.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2020 at 10:55 AM AKDT
|By Associated Press
In a stunning performance for the ages, Tour de France rookie Tadej Pogacar won cycling’s showpiece race Sunday on the eve of his 22nd birthday.
Updated: Sep. 19, 2020 at 12:28 PM AKDT
|By Marlise Irby
7,674 total cases in Alaska; active, recovered & deceased
Updated: Sep. 18, 2020 at 9:14 PM AKDT
|By Beth Verge
Alaska’s move toward the chillier season is going to mean more challenges for homeless services providers, particularly as groups navigate operations during the coronavirus pandemic.
Updated: Sep. 18, 2020 at 1:14 PM AKDT
|By Cheyenne Mathews
The new death brings the state total of deaths to 45.
Updated: Sep. 18, 2020 at 12:02 PM AKDT
|By Associated Press
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention essentially returned to its previous testing guidance, getting rid of language posted last month that said people who didn’t feel sick didn’t need to get tested.