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SHA deploys mental health professionals to aid evacuees
SaskToday.ca
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June 10, 2025
The SHA is providing mental health and wellness support to wildfire evacuees across Saskatchewan as the crisis continues. SASKATOON — The Saskatchewan Health Authority has deployed resources to support the emotional and mental well-being of...
Missouri slips in kids' health ranking, bottom third in US
KSDK - Missouri
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June 10, 2025
Missouri ranks poorly for children's health with 37 deaths per 100,000, high firearm fatalities and low-birth weight babies impacting ratings. MISSOURI, USA — Missouri ranked in the bottom third of all states for children’s health, according to a...
Mountaineer dies after falling 3,000 feet from Mount McKinley in Alaska
FOX 6 - Wisconsin
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FILE-A view of Mount Denali or Mount McKinley in Denali National Park, Alaska, 2003. (Photo by Buddy Mays/Getty Images). A mountaineer died after he fell 3,000 feet from Alaska’s Mount McKinley, also known as Denali. Alex Chiu was ascending Mount...
UAA grad student investigates the connection: volcanoes, lake trout and public health
Alaska Native News
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June 10, 2025
Outgassing on Mt. Griggs, a stratovolcano in Katmai National Park. The yellow color in the rocks is from high sulfuric content (Photo courtsey Paul Gabriel) Residents of Southcentral Alaska have been preparing for the possible eruption of Mt....
Trump's budget may put health care for Native Americans at risk
The Oklahoman
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Lawmakers from both parties said Thursday that President Donald Trump’s budget would put care for millions of Native Americans at risk should the government shut down. The Indian Health Service, which is the federal agency responsible for...
Health Ranger Report: Dane Wigington issues urgent warning about GEOENGINEERING
Natural News
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July 6, 2025
Dane Wigington asserts that extreme weather (e.g., Arctic blasts, unseasonable snowfall) is not natural, but deliberately manipulated through geoengineering. Warm Gulf of Mexico moisture is chemically nucleated and redirected to create artificial...
Missouri continues to lag behind most states in children’s health, report finds
My Ozarks Online - Missouri
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June 9, 2025
(Rebecca Rivas/Missouri Independent). June 9, 2025 5:21 pm Missouri ranked in the bottom third of all states for children’s health, according to a report released Monday — due in part to a high rate of child and teen deaths. The annual Kids Count...
Former Anchorage nurse practitioner convicted on 12 felony counts in opioid case
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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Kris Kile at her arraignment in Anchorage Superior Court on Wednesday, March 11, 2020. (Anne Raup / ADN) An Anchorage jury on Friday convicted Kris Rhodes Kile, a former nurse practitioner, of 12 felonies related to dispensing powerful opioids to...
Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference 2025 left unspoken what Alaskans truly value
Alaska Beacon
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June 7, 2025
At the conclusion of the 2025 Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference much attention was given to profitability of fossil fuels, while far less was said about the meaning of “sustainability” itself. In fact, both Alaskans and the principles of...
Taking A Look At AAV Production Using HEK293 In A Perfusion Process
Cell & Gene
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VintaBio, a contract manufacturing organization (CMO), has developed a proprietary method for AAV vector production known as VintaProcess™ — a scalable, cost-effective platform designed to meet the growing needs of gene therapy manufacturing. This...
ICE officials send 40 immigration detainees to Alaska correctional facilities
KBRW - Alaska
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June 9, 2025
The Alaska Department of Corrections, which handles the state’s jails and prisons, has taken in 40 people who were detained outside of the state by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The move comes amid a national crackdown on immigration...
Montana News Roundup: Thousands Take Part in “No Kings” Rallies
KGVO - Montana
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June 16, 2025
"No Kings!" That was the chant heard across Montana Saturday, as thousands of people took to the street in protest of the policies of the Trump Administration, and while the message focused on issues like democracy, Constitutional rights and...
Lawmakers warn Trump’s budget endangers tribal health care
The Journal Record - Oklahoma
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June 9, 2025
Key Summary: Trump’s budget lacks advance funds for Indian Health Service Lawmakers vow to protect tribal health services Democrats and Republicans raise concern over funding gaps Potential shutdown could halt vital tribal healthcare Lawmakers...
Rodriguez repeats as Gatorade Alaska softball player of the year
Alaska Sport Report
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June 9, 2025
East’s Sela Rodriguez (right) watches last week’s ASAA Division I state tournament from the East dugout. Photo by Stephanie Burgoon/Alaska Sports Report Sometimes the best way to gauge a player’s value on the softball field is to take them out of...
Inside the bowhead whale census in Alaska
Boise State Public Radio - Idaho
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June 9, 2025
Scientists and Iñupiaq hunters have been counting bowhead whales passing by the northernmost American town, Utqiagvik, for the past two months. It is part of an effort to evaluate the health of the whale population up north — and support...
Letter: Begich disappointing on Medicaid and healthcare
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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Rep. Nick Begich has already forgotten that he represents all of Alaska in the House of Representatives in Washington. Voting on legislation that greatly reduces and in some instances, eliminates Medicaid funding in Alaska does not demonstrate a...
Taking Back Alaska: Start with surgical cuts to bloated state bureaucracy
Alaska Watchman
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June 9, 2025
For nearly a decade, the state has been gripped by a silent but intensifying fiscal crisis, one rooted not in a lack of natural wealth, but in chronic mismanagement, bureaucratic expansion, and a dangerous dependency on federal funds. Despite its...
Alaska rangers recover body of man who died from fall on North America’s tallest peak
The Guardian
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June 6, 2025
Mountaineering rangers in Alaska recovered the body of a Seattle man who died after falling 3,000ft from a climbing route on Denali, or Mount McKinley, the highest mountain in North America. The National Park Service said that Alex Chiu, 41, was...
Alaska promotes ‘School Health Model’ with DEI, gender-fluidity, sexual counseling
Alaska Watchman
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May 30, 2025
For several years now, employees in Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s State Health Department have aggressively pushed a so-called “School Health Model,” which encourages Alaska school districts across the state to adopt a program that embraces DEI,...
Skagway Municipality ranks 23rd in Alaska for government transfer dependency at 18.4% in 2022
SE Alaska News
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June 9, 2025
In 2022, Skagway Municipality ranked as the 23rd most government transfer-dependent county in Alaska, with 18.4% of total income coming from programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and income maintenance, according to information...