Kyle Hopkins is special projects editor of the Anchorage Daily News. Through 2020, he is working with ProPublica on a project as part of the Local Reporting Network, and is a recipient of the Online News Association / Google News Initiative Journalism 360 Challenge. Contact him at khopkins@adn.com.
In an isolated and sparsely populated region of Alaska, there were five domestic violence homicides in 10 days. The pandemic has limited emergency services, and without shelters, many say, these deaths are no surprise.
Ricki Dahlin turned to a life of crime and drug addiction after being sexually abused as a child. “We’re broken. We’re trying to fix ourselves.”
Nearly seven years ago, Cathleen stepped on a fishing boat expecting a week of hard work and good pay. Within hours of leaving shore, the captain began to touch her.
The principal for one of Alaska’s largest rural elementary schools, in a region with some of the highest sex-crime rates in the nation and a state with a history of failing to protect students, was allowed to remain on the job until the FBI got involved.
Some Lower 48 tribes have called for Alaska-born Interior Department official Tara Sweeney to be removed over federal funding for Native corporations.
As the Ravn bankruptcy delays testing in Western Alaska, a statewide tribal health organization is preparing fast-testing machines for use across the Bush.
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.
The chief operating officer for the Bristol Bay Area Health Corp. drew criticism from tribal leaders over sharing a conspiratorial meme.
The state has about 200 ventilators and 160 ICU beds but the numbers are in flux, officials said.
“Weeks ago I did not fully grasp the severity of this crisis, but clearly, we are in the midst of an urgent public health emergency,” Alaska’s sole U.S. congressman said Thursday.
Many residents are being told they need to wait a week or longer to get results.
Child disappeared a week ago in the Western Alaska village
