In the days leading up to Wednesday, which is recognized as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a controversy over Nazi language displayed on state-issued license plates and an elected official’s response to the plates on social media captured an Anchorage educator’s attention.
Eligible Alaskans can sign up for a COVID-19 vaccine appointment for February starting Thursday. There are several ways, including a new website provided by the Municipality of Anchorage.
This year's raffle saw a jump of more than 1,000 entries. Half of the money will be used to directly fund grants for school districts across the state.
Alaska Native Cultural Charter School students remain stuck at home right now due to poor circulation in their school building. Faculty and staff are looking for suitable options for short-term solutions but so far they have been unsuccessful.
The Alaska Public Health Association is joining a nationwide movement to fight for tighter regulations to prevent substance misuse or death during the pandemic.
An Anchorage patient who tested positive for COVID-19 in December was infected with the variant strain. This is the first identification of the strain, which is known as the B.1.1.7 strain.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy removed Anchorage Assembly Member Jamie Allard from her position on the state’s Human Rights Commission after she posted controversial comments on social media about Nazi license plates, according to a statement from the governor’s office Tuesday.
The Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation has provided bottled water and hand sanitizer to residents of Tuluksak since the community’s water plant and laundromat burned Jan. 16.
Sitka illustrator Michaela Goade found out she was the winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal for outstanding illustration of a children’s book on Sunday, making her the first Indigenous person to win the award.
A group of residents has been gathering signatures since November in hopes of removing the current Anchorage Assembly Chair from his publicly elected office.
The Anchorage Animal Control Advisory Board is taking public testimony on a proposal that would require dogs to be on leash on multi-use trails and in neighborhoods.
Since moving out of Midtown earlier last year, Body Renew will now be closing it's East Anchorage location, leaving the fitness club with one building: the South location Anchorage on Old Seward Highway.
The action will give the council freedom to fund restoration projects outside of the boundaries that were set in 1994, as part of an ecosystem-wide approach.
