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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Signs posted on March 31, 2021, direct visitors to COVID-19 testing sites on the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium campus in ...

A COVID-19 testing site operated by the Arctic Slope Native Association is seen on Aug. 2 in Utqiagvik. Alaska's wave with the delta variant that was dominant in 2021 differed from patterns in other ...

WASHINGTON (Tribune News Service) — 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 ...

In a year that saw thousands of more deaths than expected across the state, COVID-19 emerged as Alaska’s third-leading cause of death for 2021, according to an Alaska Department of Health and Social ...

Since 1991, the weekly Fish Factor column has highlighted Alaska’s seafood industry with its annual no-holds-barred look back at some of the year’s best and worst happenings, and my choice for the ...

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 ...