Michelle Theriault Boots is a reporter who covers news and features about life in Alaska, and has been focusing on corrections and psychiatric care issues in the state. Contact her at mtheriault@adn.com.
The statewide teachers union said it was blindsided by the announcement. “I cannot, and will not, endorse a plan which sends $500,000 to Florida and has no vetting and no input from Alaska education professionals,” said NEA-Alaska’s leader.
The three Anchorage restaurants are the latest to shut down after initially offering takeout service.
About 80% of the residents of Whittier live in a single high-rise apartment building.
Hoarding and selling medical-grade face masks, surgical gowns and other equipment in high demand during the coronavirus pandemic is now a federal crime, Alaska’s U.S. attorney warned Monday.
The order is meant to reduce overcrowding in jails during the coronavirus pandemic.
Flight crews for both passenger airlines and cargo flights arriving in Anchorage daily are supposed to self-isolate when they’re not working, but aren’t subject to a mandatory 14-day quarantine ordered by Gov. Mike Dunleavy.
The airline said the massive reduction in flights is due to a “historic and unprecedented” collapse in air travel caused by the coronavirus.
Anchorage Superior Court Judge Herman Walker quickly left the courthouse to isolate himself and was replaced by another judge.
Judges can also put a current eviction order on hold because of the “current public health emergency.”
A rapid-fire series of orders have canceled hearings, postponed trials and even temporarily altered the state’s rule that guarantees defendants a speedy trial.
Defense attorneys and civil-liberties advocates are pressing to reduce the flow of people into incarceration and to let some non-violent and medically vulnerable inmates out.
In big and small ways, a pandemic has altered what Anchorage feels like to live in, from coffee to court to riding the bus.
