Hiring decisions will be made partially based on health-care experience, but the state wants people from rural and remote communities too.
Nat Herz, Alaska Public Media
Alaska faces a deficit crisis. But its platform for publicly tracking the state budget is broken.
The Checkbook system, launched by Palin’s administration in 2008, included records of state agencies’ payments to state contractors and grant recipients
Dunleavy will pick from three Anchorage judges, one attorney to fill Alaska’s open Supreme Court seat
Dunleavy will make his first appointment to the five-member Supreme Court from four candidates.
Alaska’s quarantine order has helped thwart COVID-19 but devastated tourism. Will Dunleavy keep it?
Public health experts have credited measures like the quarantine order with holding Alaska’s COVID-19 case count below every other state in the country, and at least one warns that revoking it could cause a flare-up.
Dunleavy will leave quarantine mandate in place for two weeks
Complying with the mandate has also cost millions of dollars for businesses in oil and gas and fishing that rely on seasonal workers.
Alaska could be empty of tourists this summer. For residents, there’s an upside.
Some Alaskans see a possible silver lining in the devastation: A spring and summer in a world-class tourist destination — without the tourists.