Sadie Maubet Bjornsen, one of the world’s top cross-country racers, pauses to look inward: ‘Who am I going to be after I’m done being a skier?’
The two-time Olympian says her break from competition has changed her perspective.
Soldotna teachers hope a return to in-school classes will help bridge a distance-learning divide
Students in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District return to onsite classes this week.
An Anchorage nurse began her career just as the pandemic reached Alaska. ‘I had no idea what I was getting myself into,’ she said.
Virginia Benson reflects on her first year as a nurse in Alaska Regional Hospital’s COVID-19 unit.
Morale gets a boost as Alaska medical workers line up for COVID vaccine
Health care workers continued to express enthusiasm for the vaccine Wednesday despite the hospitalization of a Juneau woman who had a severe allergic reaction after receiving a dose.
‘The beginning of the end of the suffering’: COVID-19 vaccinations administered to frontline health workers
Workers at the Alaska Native Medical Center on Tuesday morning received shots jointly developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.
End of the roll: Anchorage photo lab will close after nearly 40 years, bowing to digital imaging and the pandemic
Jo Keller’s Custom Photolab in Spenard was an essential stop for professional photographers in Alaska.
In Alaska’s elder-care homes, months of pandemic isolation take a profound toll
Employees have looked for creative solutions to keep up morale, including a plastic-sheet “hugging wall” that makes safe human contact possible at an Anchorage assisted-living facility.
‘I’m so grateful’
The challenges of 2020 have touched us all. But even during a pandemic, Alaskans expressed many reasons to pause and say thank you to others.
Thanksgiving gifts delivered in a tough pandemic year
Moses Daniel, general manager of a pair of Anchorage mobile home parks, said the pandemic has made this year a struggle for many residents.
Battered by the pandemic, downtown Anchorage hibernates
More than maybe anywhere else in the city, downtown has been frozen by the drawn-out pandemic.
“We are on the edge”: A Q&A with an infectious diseases doctor about Alaska and COVID-19
Dr. Andrea Caballero, who has treated more than 100 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, describes her concerns as coronavirus cases surge.
Video: U.S. House candidates make final pitch in Anchorage
Alyse Galvin and Don Young gathered with supporters on Anchorage streets.