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How healthy is Interior Alaska?
Fairbanks Daily News Miner - Alaska
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Every three years, Foundation Health Partners, in conjunction with our partners at the Fairbanks Regional Public Health Center (FRPHC) and the Interior Community Health Center (ICHC), completes a Community Health Needs Assessment, gathering...
Budget bill is bad for our health
Fairbanks Daily News Miner - Alaska
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To the editor: I would like Sen. Sullivan and Sen. Murkowski to vote against the budget bill being negotiated in Congress because of the bill’s cuts to Medicaid and total defunding of Planned Parenthood. This would destroy healthcare for people...
Opinion: A plea to Alaska’s congressional delegation for responsible economic policy
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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The U.S. Capitol. (Patrick Semansky/AP) The Trump Administration’s unilateral imposition of tariffs, tax cuts for the rich and elimination of cabinet departments and federal employees invite U.S. economic calamity. The trade war tariffs will...
Alaska Natives say the Biden admin ignored them, but Trump cabinet members hold town hall there
Just the News
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June 3, 2025
Utqiagvik, Alaska, sits on the North Slope of Alaska, the northernmost community in the U.S. The town has less than 5,000 residents and can only be accessed by air or, in the summer, by sea. Despite its remoteness, this week, Interior Secretary...
Weekly Recap June 7: 48 Alaska business licenses issued to businesses out of state
Last Frontier News - Alaska
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June 8, 2025
Alpha Group Center 6170 Crystal Drive 06/02/2025 2217254 Bossets Medical Travels 1535 Bay Woods Road 06/02/2025 2217235 Carrara, Inc. 15939 Phoenix Drive 06/02/2025 2217246 Emend Healthcare 204 37th Ave., No. 468 06/02/2025 2217227 Point Baker...
Can hormone therapy improve heart health in menopausal women?
Medical Dialogues
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June 8, 2025
Deciding whether to start hormone therapy during the menopause transition, the life phase that's the bookend to puberty and when a woman's menstrual cycle stops, is a hotly debated topic. While hormone therapy, or replacing the hormones that were...
Alaska Airlines reveals its first European destination
CBS News
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AAA: 45 million to travel for Memorial Day Record Memorial Day travel expected as Alaska Airlines bets big on global expansion 02:59 Alaska Airlines is making its first foray into the European travel market, announcing Tuesday it will launch new...
Lawmakers Vow to Restore Tribal Healthcare Protections Cut by Trump Administration
Native News Online
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Details By Elyse Wild June 07, 2025 House lawmakers from both parties pledged Thursday to restore advance appropriations for the Indian Health Service after the Trump administration proposed eliminating the funding mechanism that protects tribal...
Celebrating recovery and survival at the 2025 Alaska Run for Women
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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Pat Jarrett pins her bib onto her tutu before the start of the 2025 Alaska Run For Women in Anchorage on Saturday, June 7, 2025. (Bob Hallinen Photo) A sea of women dressed in pink flooded the University of Alaska Anchorage campus early Saturday...
State motocross puts sport’s strong family ties on display
Peninsula Clarion - Alaska
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June 16, 2025
The strong family ties that bind motocross racing were on display at the Alaska State Motocross Races 3 and 4 on Saturday and Sunday, June 14 and 15, at Twin City Raceway in Kenai. Back in 2002, Rick Bailey, the charter president of the Kenai...
Opinion: The things that went unspoken at the Alaska sustainable energy conference
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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From left, Gov. Mike Dunleavy, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum during the Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference at the Dena'ina Center in Anchorage on...
Scientist at Plymouth conservation nonprofit dies in remote Alaska crash
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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Schulte had traveled to Alaska to conduct conservation work, the statement said. He and the helicopter pilot were flying west from Prudhoe Bay to an area where he planned to outfit shorebirds with recording devices when the helicopter crashed on...
Alaska Run & Walk for Women in Girdwood event Thursday
The Turnagain News - Alaska
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By Briana Sullivan Alaska Run & Walk for Women in Girdwood In Girdwood, we will be celebrating the many years the Alaska Run for Women has united thousands of women from all over the state and beyond in one of the largest all-women runs in the...
Health Equity Round-Up (June 2nd)
Native News Online
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Details By Elyse Wild and Kaili Berg June 02, 2025 In the past few weeks, advocates and some lawmakers have continued to seek measures to protect Tribal health from Trump’s sweeping budget cuts; a reservation in North Dakota sounds the alarm about...
Hospital Association says tax increase would be ‘devastating’
Connecticut Inside Investigator
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June 2, 2025
The Connecticut Hospital Association (CHA) warns that proposed tax increases on hospitals will be “devastating” in a press statement. The new law will increase taxes on hospitals by $375 million, according to the CHA. This is a higher increase...
The Caribbean retreat: Mapping wellness, memory, and Israeli connection in the Dominican Republic
The Jerusalem Post
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June 7, 2025
Over the past nine months, my family and I have embarked on a transformative journey across more than 60 retreats, resorts, and properties – from the frozen wilderness of Alaska to the tropical jungles of Costa Rica. Under the banner of the Bedein...
Alaska man sentenced to one year in prison over illegal transport of crab to Washington
The Daily Chronicle - Washington State
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By Yereth Rosen / Alaska Beacon A Kodiak fisher has been sentenced to spend a year in jail for illegally shipping thousands of pounds of tanner crab, much of it infected with a parasitic disease, out of Alaska to Washington state, federal...
Anchorage for Women: $2.5M Treatment Center coming to Albany in late 2025
WALB - Georgia
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June 2, 2025
WALB is working to produce a video for this story. In the meantime, we encourage you to watch our livestream. ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) – A major step toward supporting women battling addiction is on the horizon in Albany. Anchorage for Women, a new...
Roadtrippin’ 2025: A treasure trove of religious history in Juneau
Alaska's News Source
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June 7, 2025
JUNEAU, Alaska (KTUU) - Hidden away within the narrow streets of Juneau is a treasure trove of religious history, in the easy-to-miss – but impossible-to-forget – St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church. The small facility is still in use to this day...
Former longtime Juneau lawmaker Jim Duncan reenters the political ‘Sausage Factory’
Juneau Empire - Alaska
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June 6, 2025
While these are strange political times, it’s not like an actual coup has occurred. Which is more than can be said for longtime local political titan Jim Duncan, who decades after being ousted as House Speaker at the Alaska State Capitol is...