In the latest CDC data, overdose death reports are down in 45 states. Increases occurred in Alaska, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and ...

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

In Missouri, Alaska and Nebraska, where voters supported President-elect Donald Trump, they also voted to expand paid sick ...

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

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 ...

What's it like to fly on Avelo Airlines, the growing low-cost leisure carrier with more than 50 destinations in 23 states and ...

Nov. 8—Alaska House legislators announced on Wednesday that they had formed a bipartisan majority coalition, but some Republicans said that was premature with tens of thousands of ballots still to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

COVID-19 spreads from an infected person to others through respiratory droplets and aerosols that can vary in size, such as: large droplets that fall to the ground rapidly (within seconds or minutes) ...

(Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) Alaska is well into the start of respiratory disease season. That means Alaskans are ...