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Among Vigo County's public health challenges are the increasing number of individuals in the criminal justice system who face mental health and substance use disorder issues.
After 10 years of effort, the Friends of Rea Park are closing in on their goal — bringing the nearly century-old clubhouse, in sore disrepair, into the 21st century.
While 2023 saw the closest thing to a “return to normalcy” since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, actual COVID numbers and hospitalizations were reported to be rising for the first few months of the year before dropping to unprecedented lows. With a drastic decrease in demand for on-site tests and vaccines, the South Peninsula COVID-19 testing and vaccine site closed its doors, giving way to at-home testing and treatment at the regular hospital facilities.
City council, Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly, the local school board races are all on the ballot