Health

The nation’s first Internet-based sexual health curriculum aimed at American Indians and Alaska Natives is in the final stages of development in Anchorage.

A new turboprop aircraft will make it easier for a medical transport service to land in some Southeast Alaska communities. Beginning Wednesday, Airlift Northwest will operate a Turbo Commander as well as the Learjet between Juneau and rural communities.  The turboprop will allow the medical service to fly into Gustavas, Skagway, Haines, Hoonah, Kake, and…

The majority of participants in the event are males, but a few women join them. And in Sitka last Friday, a teenage girl decided to take the plunge, raising nearly $3,000 in the process.

When Jim King was appointed to the City and Borough of Juneau’s first Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee in 1968, the Capital City didn’t even have a Parks and Rec department.

Right now, school districts negotiate their own health insurance plans. This bill would change that by allowing a state commissioner to select a plan for all districts

Right now, the state of Alaska is obligated to provide Medicaid funding for all “medically necessary” abortions. Yesterday the Senate passed a bill that would narrow that definition.