Alaska Public Media14h
Expert predicts 4.7% average annual increase in Alaska Medicaid costs over the next 20 years
Narrowed gaps between provider reimbursements and medical costs and an aging population with more health problems are ...
Anchorage Daily News13h
Lawsuit charges man’s untreated ear infection led to meningitis, and then death, in Alaska prison
Lewis Jordan Jr. could have been saved by antibiotics, but never got the chance to see a doctor, the lawsuit contends.
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner3h
Alaska’s rate of nonfatal opioid overdoses dipped late last year, but reasons are unclear
Nonfatal opioid overdose rates declined in Alaska in 2024, a potentially hopeful sign for a state that had a record number of ...
Rural schools in Alaska are crumbling. The state is the likely culprit.
Rural school districts depend on the state to fund construction and maintenance projects. But over the past 25 years, Alaska lawmakers have ignored hundreds of requests for public schools that ...
Anchorage Daily News1d
Alaska Permanent Fund has a 46% chance in the next decade of failing to fund services and the PFD, forecasts show, as lawmakers talk reforms
According to modeling by the Legislative Finance Division, the Permanent Fund has an almost 50% chance in the next decade of ...
Cable damage causes Southeast Alaska internet and cellphone outage, temporarily affecting state websites
Damage to a subsea cable led to widespread cellphone and internet outages in Southeast Alaska, and caused state government websites to go offline for much of Friday into Saturday before services began ...
KYUK2d
Alaska's rural schools need major infrastructure investment. KYUK has been investigating
KYUK will release the first part of an investigation with ProPublica that looks at infrastructure issues in rural Alaska ...
Chilkat Valley News2d
Lawsuit claims negligence led to three state workers’ deaths in 2023 helo crash
The families of three Alaska Department of Natural Resources employees killed in a 2023 North Slope helicopter crash have ...