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CASE COUNT SUMMARY, Monday, Feb. 8, 2021 CASE COUNT SUMMARY, Monday, Feb. 8, 2021 DHSS today announced 502 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska over the past three days. 428 were residents in: Anchorage (106), Wasilla (73), Palmer (41), Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area (39), Fairbanks (36), Bethel Census Area (34), Eagle River (11), Ketchikan (11), Dillingham (10), Kusilvak Census Area (9), Juneau (7), Aleutians East Borough (5), Nome Census Area (5), Soldotna (5), North Pole (4), Bristol ...

Print article A big fish deserves a big fish story, and we’re here to tell you how 11-year-old Aimee Pike of Wasilla used her bare hands to pull a 34.5-inch, 9.5-pound burbot out of the icy waters of Lake Louise last month. It was around midnight on the last night of a three-day fishing trip, and everyone in the party of four had caught a fish but Pike. Everyone was relaxing around a fire when Pike decided to get her gloves from a tent sheltering her fishing setup. What she found inside ma...

CASE COUNT SUMMARY, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021 CASE COUNT SUMMARY, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021 DHSS today announced 184 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 158 were residents in: Anchorage (31), Bethel Census Area (28), Wasilla (18), Kusilvak Census Area (17), Fairbanks (16), Palmer (14), Bethel (9), North Pole (4), Juneau (3), Chugiak (2), Dillingham Census Area (2), Eagle River (2), Ketchikan (2), Valdez-Cordova Census Area/Copper River (2) and one each in Dillingham, Douglas, Kenai, Nom...

CASE COUNT SUMMARY, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021 DHSS today announced 226 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 178 were residents in:  Anchorage (45), Wasilla (32), Palmer (24), Fairbanks (14), Eagle River (6), Bethel Census Area (5), Dillingham Census Area (5), Juneau (5), Tok (4), Ketchikan (3), Kodiak (3), North Pole (3), Sitka (3), Southeast Fairbanks Census Area (3), Valdez-Cordova Census Area – Copper River (3), Nome Census Area (2), Seward (2), Unalaska (2), and one each in...

Outlook poor for 2021 Copper River, Upper Cook Inlet sockeye runs in Alaska By Share Sockeye salmon forecasts for both the Copper River and the Upper Cook Inlet came in well below historical averages for the upcoming season, a blow to fisheries already reeling from poor runs and pandemic-related losses last season. For the Copper River, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG) predicted a total run of nearly 1.3 million sockeye salmon. That number would be 37.4 percent short of the mo...

CASE COUNT SUMMARY, Monday, Feb. 1, 2021 DHSS today announced 101 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 63 were residents in: Anchorage (25), Palmer (10), Wasilla (9), Eagle River (3), Fairbanks (3), Kodiak (3), Sutton-Alpine (3), North Pole (2) and one each in Bethel Census Area, Kenai, Northwest Arctic Borough, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area and Valdez-Cordova Census Area/Copper River. Thirty-eight new nonresident cases were identified yesterday in: Aleutians East Borough: 15 in s...

CASE COUNT SUMMARY, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021 CASE COUNT SUMMARY, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021 DHSS today announced 140 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 133 were residents in: Anchorage (45), Bethel Census Area (18), Bethel (11), Kusilvak Census Area (10), Eagle River (7), Wasilla (6), Fairbanks (4), Kodiak (4), Tok (4), Juneau (3), Aleutians East Borough (2), Chugiak (2), North Pole (2), Soldotna (2), Valdez-Cordova Census Area – Copper River (2) and one each in Girdwood, Fairb...

CASE COUNT SUMMARY, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021 DHSS today announced 137 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 130 were residents in: Anchorage (41), Bethel Census Area (16), Fairbanks (12), Kusilvak Census Area (9), Bethel (8), Wasilla (6), Unalaska (4), Valdez-Cordova Census Area/Copper River (4), Douglas (3), Eagle River (2), Juneau (2), Kodiak (2), North Pole (2), Northwest Arctic Borough (2), Southeast Fairbanks Census Area (2), Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area (2) and one each in Chugiak, H...

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canadas oil and gas industry Alaska wildcatter Jim White dies: fierce property rights defender Steve Sutherlin Petroleum News James (Jim) Wynn White, independent oilman and Alaskan wildcatter, died Jan. 22 in Houston, Texas, at the age of 90. White was owner of Alaskan Crude Corp. White moved his family to Kenai, Alaska, in 1968, working first for Unocal at its new fertilizer plant in Nikiski, before setting out into various business ventures in the Ke...

BETHEL (AP) — Residents of an Alaska village met with health officials and government agencies to consider methods to restore running water after a fire destroyed the communitys water plant. The Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation has provided bottled water and hand sanitizer to residents of Tuluksak since the communitys water plant and laundromat burned Jan. 16. Alaska State Troopers said the fire burned as residents of the Alaska Native community northeast of Bethel unsuccessfully tried t...