While a few positive tests have been recorded in rural Alaska, infections have been mostly concentrated in more urban parts of the state.
History
Byron Mallott: ‘My friend, we also have lived life fully, made a few contributions’
Byron Mallott was most recently known as Alaska’s lieutenant governor, but his greatest legacy was likely shaping generations of Alaska Natives through political and corporate leadership.
Gardentalk – How to create your own COVID-19 victory garden
Tips and pointers for those brand new gardeners hoping to use their yard or deck to help supplement their fresh vegetable supply while they are hunkering down.
What Alaskans learned from ‘the mother of all pandemics’
Newspaper articles paint a gloomy and eerily familiar picture of Juneau during the 1918 flu pandemic: stories of schools shutting down, businesses closing and mandatory self-quarantines.
Maui or the milk run? For a retiring Alaska Airlines pilot, the choice was always obvious.
Pilot Hal Andersen finished off a nearly 30-year career with Alaska Airlines the same way he started it — flying the “milk run” through Southeast Alaska.
Mary Jane Fate, Athabascan leader and former AFN chair, dies
Mary Jane Fate was known for her advocacy for the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, and her leadership of the Alaska Federation of Natives and the Fairbanks Native Association. Fate had many “firsts” at a formative time in Alaska’s history.