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Southeast Medical Clinic will join SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium in April of next year.

The team is made up of a Capital City Fire Rescue paramedic and a Bartlett Regional Hospital clinician. Crisis care consists of immediate response to a situation or crisis, further assessment of the person undergoing the emergency, stabilization, and follow-up involving other services.

This week’s word is sʼigeidí, which means beaver.

More than 119 million people are expected to travel for Christmas and Hanukkah through the New Year, a figure that would break a travel record set in 2019 before the coronavirus pandemic, according to AAA.

Homer’s Kristen Faulkner returned to Alaska Friday for the first time since winning two gold medals at the Paris Olympics last summer.

The bill would repeal benefit reductions affecting people who spent part of their career working for an employer not participating in Social Security, like the state of Alaska.

Bargaining parties say they’re hopeful, though the outcome will depend on funding being included in the next state budget .

For months, the federal education agency said Alaska had not funded schools equitably during the pandemic, which was a condition of receiving $359 million in federal education funding.

The club was started this year by players who wanted more opportunities for in-person competition. 

The city’s utility division proposes increasing the flat residential water rate by just over 10% starting next July and each year until 2029. The proposed sewer increase is nearly 13% each year.

Responses to Freedom of Information Act requests about bycatch included blurry photos and blacked-out text that conceal important details, Oceana’s lawsuit says.

Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor says that the state is disappointed in the decision and is evaluating its next steps in the case.

The last three petition applications were denied by the city’s legal department because they were deemed unenforceable, and included confusing or misleading provisions. 

PeaceHealth Ketchikan is now paying the emergency physicians, but it’s unclear whether they’ll be made whole for the lost wages.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy says he wanted to see a more detailed marketing plan on how funds for the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute would be spent.

Alaska’s refugee community works in health care, child care, and infrastructure across the state — all industries that need workers — but many aren’t sure if they will be able to stay. 

The judge ordered the city to pay $150,000 to the survivors of Dan Demott Jr.

The proposal comes as a lot of the water and sewer systems’ infrastructure reaches the end of its lifespan and maintenance becomes more costly.

The Juneau School Board voted on Tuesday to extend the benefit for another semester — but after that, its future is uncertain.

In a two-hour vigil at the University of Alaska Southeast boat ramp on Saturday, more than 80 Sitkans and visitors gathered to share stories of loss.