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Signs posted on March 31, 2021, direct visitors to COVID-19 testing sites on the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium campus in Anchorage. Average life expectancy in Alaska declined that year more than in any other U.S. state, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. Nationally, life expectancy declined, a trend driven by COVID-19 but also by drug overdoses, health experts say. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)

Alaska’s life-expectancy drop was biggest among all states in pandemic year of 2021, CDC says

by Yereth Rosen - Alaska Beacon September 30, 2024September 30, 2024

An illustration of Bordetella pertussis

News, Health, Local News

Rising pertussis case numbers in Alaska prompt warnings and prevention recommendations

by Yereth Rosen - Alaska Beacon August 22, 2024August 22, 2024

Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium officials, state lawmakers and the director of the Indian Health Service dig into dirt on Wednesday at the Alaska Native Medical Center in a ceremonial groundbreaking for the hospital's $257 million emergency department expansion. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)

Expansion of Alaska Native Medical Center emergency department is underway

by Yereth Rosen - Alaska Beacon August 18, 2024August 29, 2024

hree brown bear cubs crouch in the grass near their mother in a meadow in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve in 2009. A new rule resurrects a ban on bear baiting by sport hunters in national preserves in Alaska, but the National Park Service opted against expanding the rule to ban other controversial practices. (Courtesy/ K. Jalone, National Park Service)

Bear baiting again banned in national preserves in Alaska, under new National Park Service rule

by Yereth Rosen - Alaska Beacon July 12, 2024August 29, 2024

Smoke from the Swan Lake Fire burning in the Chugach National Forest obscures the view of Kenai Fjords National Park's Exit Glacier on Aug. 23, 2019. The glacier can normally be seen clearly from this visitor pullout established by the National Park Service. The Park Service is preparing a fire management plan for five coastal units, including Kenai Fjords. WIldfire smoke is one of the considerations in the plan. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)

News, Environment

National Park Service drafting plan that might allow fire-prevention work in coastal Alaska units

by Yereth Rosen - Alaska Beacon June 22, 2024September 11, 2024

Sockeye salmon heading to spawning grounds swim up the Kenai River on Aug. 17, 2008. Sockeye harvest problems for Upper Cook Inlet setnetters have led to fishery disaster declarations by the U.S. Department of Commerce. (Photo by Kentaro Yasui/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

Nearly $12 million headed to Alaska in latest infusion of fishery-disaster aid

by Yereth Rosen - Alaska Beacon June 22, 2024October 14, 2024

News, Alaska Legislature, State of Alaska, Housing

In seismically active Alaska, plans for statewide residential building codes are on shaky ground

by Yereth Rosen - Alaska Beacon April 12, 2024September 12, 2024

A northern red-backed vole scampers through a forested area of the Kenai Peninsula. These small mammals, found in almost all parts of Alaska, are known carriers of the virus that causes the disease being renamed borealpox. The borealpox virus -- known up to now as the Alaskapox virus -- appears to be more widespread in the environment than previously understood. (Photo by Colin Canturbury/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

Alaskapox no more: Newly discovered disease and virus is to be called ‘borealpox’

by Yereth Rosen - Alaska Beacon March 31, 2024October 14, 2024

An underwater image captured in 2016 shows sockeye salmon swimming up the Brooks River in Alaska's Katmai National Park to spawn. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is buying about 50 million pounds of Alaska fish -- pollock, pink salmon and sockeye salmon -- to use in its food and nutrition-assistance programs. (Photo courtesy the National Park Service)

Agriculture Department commits to big purchase of Alaska salmon and pollock for food programs

by Yereth Rosen - Alaska Beacon February 21, 2024October 14, 2024

Annual report tracks Alaskans’ tobacco-cessation progress — and tallies tobacco’s costs to the state

by Yereth Rosen - Alaska Beacon January 24, 2024September 11, 2024