Fewer Alaska babies were born in 2023 than in previous years, but there were also fewer deaths in the state than in prior ...

As a commercial fisherman based in Sitka and the executive director of the Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association (ALFA), I’ve spent decades navigating Alaska’s challenging waters and the headwinds ...

On Monday, Republican U.S. House candidate Nick Begich urged supporters to vote early and lock in their votes.

Alaskans this year made a dramatic shift from past years in their voting practices, choosing in large numbers to cast their ...

In Alaska, according to the State Department of Health’s Respiratory Virus Snapshot, COVID-19 cases have risen week over week since Dec. 9. The most recent data, for the week ending Saturday ...

Being a newborn baby was the top reason for hospitalizations, while childbirth complications ranked third on the list, the report says.

In-person voting was up more than 30% compared to 2020 during the first two days of early voting, officials said.

But early voting is not distributed equally across the state. Only voters in 10 communities — or those who happen to visit ...

The coronavirus pandemic underscored the importance of paid sick leave, a benefit to help workers and their families when ...

The Port of Seward, which serves a coastal Kenai Peninsula town that is a tourism hotspot in the summer, has received a $45.7 million grant to develop a system to cut air pollution from visiting ...

Over 1.38 million excess deaths occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, with significant disparities among racial and ethnic minorities. American Indian or Alaska Native and Hispanic populations ...

Voters in Missouri and Nebraska approved ballot measures Tuesday that guarantee paid leave for sick workers. Alaska voters seem poised to pass a similar measure that has a wide lead. These two ...