Alaska’s population total remained almost unchanged in 2023 at 736,812, an increase of 304 from 2022, according to the Alaska ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Natalie Holt sees reminders nearly everywhere of the serious toll a years-long syphilis outbreak has taken in South Dakota.

People in the southern U.S., Appalachia and the Rust Belt states score lowest on the Human Development Index (HDI), a ...

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) has published a new study published in The Lancet that finds significant disparities in well-being among racial and ethnic groups, and across sex ...

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.

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).