In Alaska, the state with the nation’s biggest increase in drug overdose deaths from 2020 to 2021, certain demographic groups have been at higher risk, according to a newly released report: men more ...

Alaska had the biggest decline in average life expectancy of all U.S. states in 2021, a year when health outcomes were heavily influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent national ...

Musher Paige Drobny, wearing the required face mask at the ceremonial Anchorage start of the 2022 Iditarod Treail Sled Dog Race on March 5, carried a pro-vaccine message on her way to Nome. A race ...

WASHINGTON (Tribune News Service) — The Army's mental health emergency in Alaska spiked in 2021 with 17 suspected suicide deaths — more suicides than in the previous two years combined. The crisis has ...

Since 1991, the weekly Fish Factor column has highlighted Alaska’s seafood industry with its annual no-holds-barred look back at some of the year’s best and worst happenings, and my choice for the ...

In a year that saw thousands of more deaths than expected across the state, COVID-19 emerged as Alaska’s third-leading cause of death for 2021, according to an Alaska Department of Health and Social ...

This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Feel free to republish and share widely. As parts of Alaska obliterated ...

A study of two powerful earthquakes in adjacent areas off the Alaska Peninsula in 2020 and 2021 shows a connection between the two. It also suggests they may be a part of an 80-year rupture cascade ...