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This week on Addressing Alaskans is the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation’s 2021 economic outlook. Learn how Anchorage’s economy is performing after taking a hit in 2020 and where the trends are headed. Read the full report HERE BROADCAST: Sunday, August 29, 2021 RECORDED: Wednesday, August 8, 2021 ABOUT: Addressing Alaskans features local lectures and forums recorded at public events…

Gov. Mike Dunleavy discusses the state of the coronavirus pandemic during a news conference at the Atwood Building in Anchorage on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. It was the governor’s first news conference about COVID-19 in months. (Matthew Faubion / Alaska Public Media) Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced on Thursday a series of steps intended to help…

Some shelves at the Trading Union grocery store in Petersburg are nearly empty. (Katie Anastas / KFSK) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, and comments to news@alaskapublic.org. Follow Alaska Public Media on Facebook and on Twitter @AKPublicNews. And subscribe to the Alaska News Nightly podcast.  Thursday on Alaska News Nightly: The Kenai Peninsula…

Cars line up for drive-through Covid-19 testing on the Alaska Native Medical Campus on Aug. 24, 2021. (Jeff Chen/Alaska Public Media) A total of 701 Alaskans tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, the state’s highest daily tally of infections since December. And health officials warn that the actual number of cases may be even higher…

The Alaska House of Representatives meets for the first day of the Legislature’s third special session this year in the Capitol on Monday. (Andrew Kitchenman/KTOO and Alaska Public Media) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, and comments to news@alaskapublic.org. Follow Alaska Public Media on Facebook and on Twitter @AKPublicNews. And subscribe to the Alaska…

The Atwood Concert Hall is the largest theater in the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts. (Ernesto Andrade/Creative Commons) If you want to attend an event at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts in Anchorage you’ll have to show proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test.  The theater complex announced the new…

The lone road through Denali National Park and Preserve. Photographed on July 25, 2020. (Tegan Hanlon / Alaska Public Media) Road access in Denali National Park and Preserve is being restricted due to a long-running landslide issue that has been exacerbated by climate change, the park announced Tuesday. The lone road through the park spans…

It’s been a great season for salmon berries in Southeast Alaska. (Photo by Aaron Bolton/KSTK News) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, and comments to news@alaskapublic.org. Follow Alaska Public Media on Facebook and on Twitter @AKPublicNews. And subscribe to the Alaska News Nightly podcast.  Tuesday on Alaska News Nightly: Healthcare professionals say their…

The seal of the state of Alaska, behind the dais where Alaska Supreme Court justices hears cases in the Boney Courthouse in Anchorage. (Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO) The state of Alaska has been ordered to pay nearly $87,000 in attorneys fees to the American Civil Liberties Union after losing a lawsuit over the governor’s vetoes of court…

The Two Rivers Lodge burned in the early morning hours of Monday, Aug. 23, 2021. (Maisie Thomas/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips, questions, and comments to news@alaskapublic.org. Follow Alaska Public Media on Facebook and on Twitter @AKPublicNews. And subscribe to the Alaska News Nightly podcast.  Monday on Alaska News Nightly: Two…

Alaska State Troopers say an officer was shot in downtown Anchor Point around 1 p.m. Monday, and they’re now asking for the public’s help locating a man who they say is wanted in connection to the incident. Bret Herrick. (Alaska State Troopers photo) Troopers identified the man they’re searching for as 60-year-old Bret Herrick of…

Students play during recess at Dena’ina Elementary School in Wasilla in September. (Jeff Chen/Alaska Public Media) Several scheduled bus routes across the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District were canceled Monday, as the district learned its busing contractor did not have enough drivers to complete the routes due to a COVID-19 outbreak. That’s according to an email…

Allen Lavont Jefferson talks about his plans for volunteer work in his tent in Anchorage’s Mountain View neighborhood in August, 2021 (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media) This episode of Addressing Alaskans features a panel representatives from local organizations examining solutions to homelessness. The event was hosted by Rep. Ivy Spohnholz and moderated by Alaska Public Media’s…

Alaska is seeing some of its highest case numbers of the entire COVID-19 pandemic, and its hospitals are full. Doctors and nurses have described hours-long waits for care in the emergency room, as a wave of COVID-19-infected patients collides with already high summer demand on hospitals from tourists and trauma victims. At the same time,…

A COVID-19 vaccine clinic at the Dimond Center in August, 2021 (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media) If your immune system is compromised, the state of Alaska says you should get a third dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine to better protect yourself from COVID-19. The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services advice released Friday…

Les Gara attends an Aug. 4, 2021 dedication for a new Dena’ina place names project. (Jeff Chen/Alaska Public Media) Former state Rep. Les Gara announced that he’s running for governor. The Anchorage Democrat said in his announcement that he would support good-paying jobs, including through state construction projects and good job training. He cited his…

A health care provider, wearing several types of personal protective equipment that is being tracked by the State of Alaska, provides care in 2020, for a woman hospitalized in an isolation room in the critical care unit of Bartlett Hospital, in Juneau. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/KTOO) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. Send news tips,…

Anchorage doctors say that that forced isolation from COVID-19 exposure, burnout from a year and a half of pandemic, and increased patient loads are taxing healthcare workers at unprecedented rates. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/KTOO) Emergency room doctors in Anchorage sounded dire warnings about the city’s hospital capacity Friday at a medical update to the Anchorage…

Two people and a dog curl up near a boiler room on Shattuck Way on Jan. 20, 2017 in downtown Juneau, Alaska. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk) For Alaskans who experience homelessness, the looming colder weather creates additional stress. The highly contagious delta variant of COVID-19 makes the logistics of safe shelter more complicated.…