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Alaska COVID-19 Cases
Alaska Total Coronavirus Cases: 298,226
Alaska New Coronavirus Deaths:
Alaska Total Coronavirus Deaths: 1,485
U.S. Total Coronavirus Cases: 107,184,620
U.S. New Coronavirus Deaths: 8
U.S. Total Coronavirus Deaths: 1,166,662
Coronavirus News for Nuiqsut
OPINION: Solutions for Alaska's nurse shortage
The focus must be on significantly improving working conditions, ensuring high professional standards, and retention and workforce development strategies. More info »
Alaska Dispatch News - 04/23/2024 09:26amAlaska tribal health consortiums are legally immune in many cases, state Supreme Court says
The Alaska Supreme Court overturned a 20-year-old precedent Friday by ruling that Alaska Native tribal organizations can more easily receive the kind of sovereign legal immunity that individual tribes ... More info »
Yahoo - 04/27/2024 01:00amBiden Shields Millions of Acres of Alaskan Wilderness From Drilling and Mining
The Interior Department said it would deny a permit for an industrial road that the state of Alaska had wanted to ... former mayor of the Inupiaq village of Nuiqsut. “For too long, oil and ... More info »
The New York Times - 04/18/2024 12:00pmBiden limits oil drilling across 13 million acres of Alaskan Arctic
Future oil and gas drilling will be limited across more than 13 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska ... the former mayor of Nuiqsut, a town of roughly 500 people on the North ... More info »
The Washington Post - 04/18/2024 09:01pm