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Providence health system cutting 35 Alaska positions as part of national reduction
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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Providence Alaska Medical Center, photographed on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024 in Anchorage. (Loren Holmes / ADN) Providence is cutting 35 positions in Alaska, mostly in leadership roles, as part of a national reduction in its workforce, according to...
Video: Watch as Anchorage Assembly Chair Constant says he’s never been ‘filled with as much rage,’ but what has caused him to be so mad?
Must Read Alaska
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June 12, 2025
A tense Anchorage Assembly meeting this week laid bare ongoing questions about a 2021 ordinance requiring city permits for homeless shelters, a rule originally advanced by liberal Assembly members amid efforts to shut down the faith-based Downtown...
Empire Archives: Juneau’s history for the week ending June 14
Juneau Empire - Alaska
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June 12, 2025
Empire Archives is a series printed every Saturday featuring a short compilation of headline stories in the Juneau Empire from archived editions in 1985, 1995, and 2005. The stories include names, AP style, and other content of their eras. This...
Opinion: Juneteenth in Alaska is more than a holiday — it’s a call to action
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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Names of United States Colored Troops soldiers on the African American Civil War Memorial during Juneteenth commemorations on June 19, 2024, in Washington. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP) On June 19, with some communities celebrating the weekend before as...
Refurbished Queen Elizabeth Arrives in Seattle, Offering Alaska Voyages
Cruise Industry News
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Today, the newly refreshed Queen Elizabeth arrived at the Port of Seattle for the first time to begin a season of Alaskan voyages. The Queen Elizabeth will homeport in Seattle for the first time. “Historic grandeur, refined elegance, bespoke...
Murkowski Engages with Education and Labor Nominees on Alaska Priorities
Alaska Native News
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June 12, 2025
Washington, DC – This week, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) held a hearing to consider the nominations of Dr. Penny Schwinn to be Deputy Secretary of Education, Kimberly Richey to be Assistant Secretary for...
Juneau lawmakers discuss state budget woes, education funding at town hall
KTOO - Alaska
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June 11, 2025
Juneau’s legislative delegation listens as constituents ask questions at a town hall meeting at Yadaa.at Kalé Juneau-Douglas High School on Monday, June 9, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) Juneau’s three Democratic state lawmakers met with...
OPINION: Show your opposition to leftist NGO-backed protesters in Alaska
Alaska Watchman
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June 12, 2025
There will be a gathering of liberals around the country on Saturday, including here in Homer, Alaska. Democrats will gather at Wisdom, Knowledge, Faith & Love Park as part of a larger “No Kings” movement that is aligned with similar protests in...
Alaska bypass mail rates set to rise by over 9% in July
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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Packages are sorted in the Anchorage main office on Friday, Dec. 14, 2018. (Loren Holmes / ADN) The U.S. Postal Service is set to increase rates next month for Alaska’s bypass mail program, which ships groceries and bulk goods across rural Alaska....
Skier caught in an avalanche is the 2nd person to die this season on Alaska's Mount McKinley
WKBN - Ohio
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June 12, 2025
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A skier died after being caught in an avalanche on North America’s tallest peak, officials said Wednesday — the second death of this year’s climbing season on Alaska’s Mount McKinley. Nicholas Vizzini, 29, of Washington...
Four bodies believed to be Troy family recovered in Alaska
KAMR - Texas
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June 11, 2025
ALASKA / TROY, Texas (FOX 44) – Alaska divers have recovered a fourth set of human remains believed to be a member of the Maynard Family, according to the Alaska Department of Public Safety. The Alaska Dive Search, Rescue, and Recovery Team, with...
Remains of Texas family missing in Alaska believed to be recovered
KSNW - Kansas
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June 11, 2025
ALASKA / TROY, Texas (KWKT) — Alaska divers have recovered a fourth set of human remains believed to be a member of the Maynard family, according to the Alaska Department of Public Safety. The Maynards — 42-year-old David Maynard, 37-year-old Mary...
Medicaid cuts could hit rural hospitals in GOP states, Democrats say
CBS News
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Cuts to federal spending on Medicaid could affect hundreds of rural hospitals in many states that have elected Republican senators and voted for President Trump, Senate Democrats warned Thursday, citing a list they commissioned of rural hospitals...
As Alaska’s schools struggle, lawmakers announce task force to study why
Alaska Public Media
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June 12, 2025
A group of state lawmakers is set to meet this summer and fall to study and discuss ways to improve Alaska’s public schools. Lawmakers passed a bill last month boosting the base of the state’s school funding formula by $700 after overriding Gov....
Who has beef with the Republican mega-bill? Alaska’s solar industry, among others.
Alaska Public Media
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June 12, 2025
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Capitol complex is crawling with citizen advocates these days, mobilized by one part or another of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” pending in the Congress. A cluster of anti-hunger champions took a breather Wednesday afternoon...
Empowering Alaska's future, one nurse at a time
Fairbanks Daily News Miner - Alaska
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At the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA), we understand the health of our communities depends on the strength of our workforce. As Alaska’s flagship institution for health education, UAA’s College of Health (COH) is not only preparing students...
Alaska developing plans to introduce deer to southern Kenai Peninsula
Homer News - Alaska
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June 11, 2025
Strategy development for the project follows a public proposal introduced in 2023. The state of Alaska is developing plans to transplant Sitka black-tailed deer to the southern Kenai Peninsula, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced in a...
Retired Alaska fisherman captures Sitka’s fishing life
National Fisherman - Alaska
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After 45 years trolling for salmon on the waters of Southeast Alaska, artist Stephen Lawrie is mixing acrylics with water in his ongoing quest to tell a story in paintings of the commercial fishing industry and the people who call it home....
“Remaining Native” is Medicine for Generational Healing
Underscore - Oregon
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June 12, 2025
Gathered inside the longhouse of the Hibulb Cultural Center on May 16, families snuggled up next to one another on the cedar seating along each side and sat in chairs in rows along the middle in silence as “Remaining Native,” the directorial debut...
Opinion: Medicaid cuts would devastate mental health, substance use treatment services in red states
STAT - Massachusetts
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June 12, 2025
When House Republicans voted in the wee hours of the morning of May 22 to cut approximately $700 billion from Medicaid, they moved one step closer to rendering dangerously vulnerable the millions of Medicaid recipients struggling with mental...