Fewer Alaska babies were born in 2023 than in previous years, but there were also fewer deaths in the state than in prior ...

As a commercial fisherman based in Sitka and the executive director of the Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association (ALFA), I’ve spent decades navigating Alaska’s challenging waters and the headwinds ...

The center also found that 1 in 40 Native American and Alaska Native babies born in the region in 2022 had a syphilis ...

Alaskans this year made a dramatic shift from past years in their voting practices, choosing in large numbers to cast their ...

In-person voting was up more than 30% compared to 2020 during the first two days of early voting, officials said.

Being a newborn baby was the top reason for hospitalizations, while childbirth complications ranked third on the list, the report says.

In Alaska, any voter can vote absentee, but someone who wants to receive a blank ballot in the mail must request it — ballots aren’t sent automatically. In 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic ...

The coronavirus pandemic underscored the importance of paid sick leave, a benefit to help workers and their families when ...

Racial and ethnic disparities in excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic were pronounced, with American Indian/Alaska Native and Hispanic populations experiencing the highest mortality ratios.

The Port of Seward, which serves a coastal Kenai Peninsula town that is a tourism hotspot in the summer, has received a $45.7 million grant to develop a system to cut air pollution from visiting ...

During the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE ... observed-to-expected mortality ratios were the American Indian or Alaska Native and Hispanic populations (1.34 and 1.31, respectively).

Voters in Missouri and Nebraska approved ballot measures Tuesday that guarantee paid leave for sick workers. Alaska voters seem poised to pass a similar measure that has a wide lead. These two ...