A serious illness that sickened four people was caused by drinking raw, unpasteurized milk from a south central Alaska dairy farm, according to state health officials. The four, including a young child, developed a gastrointestinal sickness after drinking raw milk …
A magnitude-7.2 earthquake shook a large swath of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands on Thursday evening, sending residents of small coastal towns to higher ground as officials issued a tsunami warning in the temblor’s wake. The quake was centered about 122 miles …
A 92-year-old Fairbanks woman struck on one of her daily walks downtown has died of her injuries. Locals told the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner that Yolana Rockar was a fixture in the city’s downtown. Mayor Jerry Cleworth says Rockar was a …
Alaska has seen a significant decrease in workplace fatalities — down 42.5 percent from the previous decade — according to the epidemiology branch of the state Division of Public Health. According to the Division, during 2000–2009, 379 work-related fatalities were …