Bethel COVID-19 case marks first confirmed in Yukon-Kuskokwim region
Other confirmed positives included a Pogo mine worker and a resident of Petersburg, a Southeast Alaska island community of about 3,000 people.
First COVID-19 case appears in Bethel, but not everyone wants to be tested
As the Ravn bankruptcy delays testing in Western Alaska, ANTHC prepares to send fast-testing machines for use across the Bush
A ‘patchwork of different carriers’ to serve rural Alaska in the wake of Ravn’s closure
The North Slope Borough seized all of the airline’s assets within the region to ensure mail and cargo deliveries continue, according to an emergency order.
State revenue forecast projects a big budget deficit in 2021, even with $0 Permanent Fund dividend
Alaska will also lack easy-to-spend savings to close the gap as the fiscal cliff arrives.
Anchorage schools launch district-wide distance learning as COVID-19 upends normal education
Superintendent Deena Bishop urged families to prepare, as school building closures could last through the rest of the academic year.
America’s most influential coronavirus model just revised its estimates downward. But not every model agrees.
Experts cautioned against vesting too much confidence in any single model or data point.
Grocery workers are essential during the coronavirus crisis. And they’re afraid.
Around the world, grocery store employees — mostly getting low wages — are staffing the frontlines amid lockdowns.
How long until sports can return? You might not like the answer.
Analysis: The coronavirus pandemic has ground sports to a halt, and it may claim many more events before it’s safe to play again.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson moved to intensive care for treatment of COVID-19
Officials said Johnson was conscious and did not require ventilation but was in the intensive care unit in case he needed it later.
This emergency management specialist has spent years planning for a moment like this. Here’s how an Anchorage hospital is preparing for COVID-19.
“I think hope is a terrible strategy”: Under the guidance of Sean Murphy, Alaska Regional Hospital converted an ambulance bay for coronavirus care and made several other changes to staffing, space and supplies.
Trump blocks Fauci, his top infectious disease expert, from answering question about drug Trump is promoting
The president spent a portion of Sunday’s press briefing yet again promoting an unproven treatment for the novel coronavirus, repeatedly asking, “What do we have to lose?”
Thousands of fishery workers, many from outside Alaska, are headed to Bristol Bay. One tiny hospital says its coronavirus plan can’t handle them.
The Bristol Bay population is expected to triple during the fishing season. A Dillingham chief nursing officer says that with 16 beds, no intensive-care unit and just two ventilators, a crush of patients could overwhelm her COVID-19 surge plans.
Chaos and scrambling in the US oil patch as prices remain low
The global economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic has devastated the oil industry in the U.S., which pumps more crude than any other country.
