In Alaska, the state with the nation’s biggest increase in drug overdose deaths from 2020 to 2021, certain demographic groups have been at higher risk, according to a newly released report: men more ...

Alaska had the biggest decline in average life expectancy of all U.S. states in 2021, a year when health outcomes were heavily influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent national ...

WASHINGTON – The Army's mental health emergency in Alaska spiked in 2021 with 17 suspected suicide deaths – more suicides than in the previous two years combined. The crisis has deepened in recent ...

The comprehensive Alaska Department of Health report examined how the state fared between 2020 and 2023, noting successes and failures in the public health system.

On Sunday, Kodiak Island in southern Alaska hit 67 degrees. That’s warmer than it was in Southern California that same day. This set a record for the warmest December day in Alaska, according to the ...

A study of two powerful earthquakes in adjacent areas off the Alaska Peninsula in 2020 and 2021 shows a connection between the two. It also suggests they may be a part of an 80-year rupture cascade ...

Alaska is now reporting more new cases each day, relative to its population, than any other state in the nation, according to a New York Times database. By Daniel E. Slotnik Eduardo Medina and Mike ...

A trek of 4,000 miles between Alaska and Pennsylvania is a long trip even in three planes with today’s technology, observed Lauren Peters, days after the University of California, Davis, doctoral ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Alaska Airlines, consistently ranked among the nation’s top carriers, will start flying from Cleveland in June, with nonstop flights to Seattle. Service will launch June 16, with ...

Alaska had the biggest decline in average life expectancy of all U.S. states in 2021, a year when health outcomes were heavily influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent national ...