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2025年2月1日 · Alaska’s tuberculosis rate remains elevated, preliminary figures show BY: Yereth Rosen - February 3, 2025 Alaska’s rates of tuberculosis inched up in the past year, continuing the state’s long pattern of having the nation’s highest or nearly highest rates of this respiratory disease, according to preliminary figures.

2025年2月1日 · Seven years ago, heavy tariffs levied by President Donald Trump against China triggered a trade war that crimped Alaska’s seafood exports and left fishermen with less money for their catches.. On Saturday, a second round of Trump tariffs is scheduled to take effect, and the impact on Alaska is expected to be even bigger than it was in his first term.

3 天之前 · Alaska’s public school test scores remaining near the bottom of the nation have turbo-charged the political debate in the Legislature over school funding.. Gov. Mike Dunleavy addressed Alaska’s “report card” repeatedly at a news conference on Friday, while introducing legislation for increased school funding for one year, as well as education policy changes.

6 天之前 · Alaska’s rates of tuberculosis inched up in the past year, continuing the state’s long pattern of having the nation’s highest or nearly highest rates of this respiratory disease, according to preliminary fig ures.. The rate of tuberculosis in 2024 was 12.8 per 100,000 people, up from the 2023 rate of 10.5 per 100,000, according to preliminary figures presented at this week’s annual ...

2025年1月11日 · In all, the Alaska seafood industry lost $1.8 billion from 2022 to 2023, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.. Those problems inspired the creation of the task force last spring. The group has been meeting regularly since the summer.. The draft recommendations that have emerged from the task force’s work address marketing, product development, workforce shortages ...

2024年11月19日 · In a panel discussion at last week’s Resource Development Council for Alaska annual conference in Anchorage, Bundrant pointed to the recently announced Russian decision to increase its allowable catch of pollock by 7% to 2.46 million metric tons. The Russian quota decision ran counter to advice from some scientists and pleas from some Russian fishing groups worried about low prices in a ...

2025年1月14日 · Two health-related bills that faced unusual deaths in last year’s session of the Alaska Legislature have been resurrected as new bills for lawmakers to consider this session. A list of bills filed before the start of the session as of Friday includes a measure sponsored by Rep. Andrew Gray, D ...

2024年11月6日 · Alaska voters favored a ballot measure backed by labor unions by a margin of 12.46 percentage points with roughly 70% of the ballots counted early Wednesday.

2024年10月18日 · A sign outside of a McDonald's restaurant in Midtown Anchorage, seen on Oct. 7, advertises openings for jobs that pay up to $16 an hour. Voters will decide the fate of a ballot measure that would set a $15-an-hour minimum wage …