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According to the latest report on health care quality across America, Alaska ranks as the second worst in terms of several factors. A study by the stem cell treatment center called Auragens examined health care systems in all 50 states, comparing safety, response time, and medical bills. New York ranked the worst state to get sick in America. In New York, medical expenses reach $14,000 per person and emergency rooms taking three hours to see patients. Alaska ranks second-worst, charging $13,600...
I have an older cousin who was just diagnosed with early-stage Parkinson's after several years of dizziness and falls. Luckily, his doctor said it's not the type of Parkinson's that leads to death. I often give "Come to Jesus" talks to family and friends when they begin to experience these symptoms. It can be annoying for them. I advise sturdy equipment like walkers, especially ones with built-in seats. But men usually disdain the advice because of pride and vanity. They just don't want to look...
Alaska public school students would be required to learn hands-only CPR under a proposal advancing through the state legislature. In a 19-0 vote in mid-February, the Alaska Senate approved Senate Bill 20, which requires the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development to "adopt curricula to instruct public school students on hands-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation." Conventional CPR involves chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth breathing, whereas hands-only CPR uses compressions...
As Iditarod mushers and their teams head out of Willow on Sunday, March 8, and race toward Nome, they will follow a path steeped in history-a story written by Native traders, gold rushers and the evolution of the Alaska frontier. The northern route, used during even-numbered years like 2026, passes through remote villages and towns that each tell a unique tale of adaptation, ambition, and survival. After leaving Willow, teams thunder past checkpoints at Yentna Station, Skwentna, Finger Lake,...
Over the years I've returned to America's oldest national park many times and can summarize every visit in three words: Yellowstone never disappoints. Whether you're content to just drive the roads in search of wildlife or take a few steps from the car to admire the raging rivers and waterfalls, mountains, sprawling canyons, geysers or other geothermal features, Yellowstone will deliver. One year, we watched the aurora borealis spread across the Wyoming sky at 2 am, and on another occasion, saw...
The Alaska Veterans Museum is throwing itself a birthday bash on April 18 from 1 to 4 p.m. The party will feature live music, food and beverages, and free entry. The museum, at 411 W. Fourth Ave., Suite 201 in the yellow Sunshine Plaza, honors, educates and inspires with stories of military veterans. It also has a focus on Alaska's unique military history. Come hear, see, and touch military history, as well as learn little known facts. Winter hours are Wednesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5...
The Alaska Native Media Group (ANMG) and partner Alaska Teen Media Institute are releasing four one-hour radio/podcast episodes. Listeners can find the podcasts at alaskanativemedia.org/radio-show/. They are also available on PodBean, Apple Podcasts and Spotify. NATIVE Voices features Alaska Native community leaders in conversation about lived experiences and issues that are often misrepresented or left unanswered in public discourse. The first four episodes are hosted by Hannah Bissett (Dena’ina Athabascan) and produced by longtime Alaska r...
The National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA) Foundation is offering up to four $3,500 scholarships for law students who plan to enroll in a qualifying course in elder or special needs law. The students must be enrolled at law schools accredited by the American Bar Association. The need for skilled elder and special needs law attorneys is growing rapidly amid significant demographic shifts. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that 73 million Americans will be 65 or older by 2030, increasing demand for legal services related to long-term...
Recent Anchorage Assembly discussions have highlighted senior transportation pressures, particularly around the municipally supported AnchorRIDES paratransit program, which provides door-to-door transportation for seniors and people with disabilities who are unable to use fixed-route bus service. A lifeline for older adults Riders rely on AnchorRIDES for medical appointments, grocery shopping, senior center meals and other daily needs that support aging in place. Each trip represents a...
My husband and daughter are avid cross-country skiers, but somehow my love of running never turned into a similar enthusiasm for snow sports. But one spring I decided I would sign up for the 25-kilometer Tour of Anchorage ski race. My sister-in-law, an adventurous young woman who pledged to do one thing outside her comfort zone every year-skydiving, stand-up comedy, trapeze artistry-had died a few months before. And maybe I was honoring her legacy by registering for an athletic event I had...
Alaska Chinese Association is marking its 50th anniversary with Golden Jubilee Lunar New Year celebration from noon to 4 p.m. Feb. 15 at Dimond High School (2909 W. 88th Ave., Anchorage, AK 99502) will feature performances, food, and family activities. Tickets and information are available here. The community celebration leads into the Year of the Horse, which begins with Lunar New Year on Feb. 17, 2026, marking half a century of Chinese heritage, community building, and cultural fusion in...
Alaska has 139 active clinical trials looking for those willing to sign up for research studies in Anchorage, Fairbanks and Bethel. Not only do you earn money for participation, but you also learn about your own state of health. Over the past few years, I've been found to have Stage 1 fatty liver disease, which the earliest and mildest form where fat accumulates up to 33% in liver cells and usually causes no noticeable symptoms. But it is crucial to address because it can progress to...
This year's Fur Rondy will be different in that there is now an Anchorage Mushing District arch over Fourth Avenue, marking the starting line for the Fur Rendezvous Open World Championship Sled Dog Race and the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, the state's most famous international event. The landmark was inaugurated in November 2025, and it was the culmination of a multi-year effort by led by Jim Huettl, the president of the nonprofit Anchorage Mushing District. "He was indefatigable," said Rod...
Alaska has one of the highest smoking costs in the nation, according to a report from personal-finance company WalletHub. The company calculated the potential monetary losses—including the lifetime and annual costs of a pack of cigarettes per day, health care expenditures, income losses and other costs—brought on by smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke. Smoking impacts your health and your pocketbook. Tobacco use is responsible for nearly half a million deaths in the United States each year and remains the leading cause of lung cancer, acc...
Many cold-weather cities have a winter carnival, and Anchorage is no different. Fur Rendezvous is Feb. 26-March 8 this year. The festival – informally called Fur Rondy or "Rondy" – is a significant part of the city's history and tradition. In the mid-1930s, Anchorage was a town of about 3,000 people that stretched between Park Strip and Ship Creek. Winters were long and with few of the modern-day entertainments we take for granted. Though it started as a way for trappers and hunters to show off...
Q. Is it safe to unplug a USB drive without ejecting it first? A. When a USB drive is inserted into a device, the device “mounts” a virtual disk on your system. Ejecting the drive is the process of telling the device to “unmount” the virtual disk. In a perfect world, a drive would always be ejected before unplugging it. The eject command performs an important cleanup process that closes open files, saves cached data, and checks for errors. Each of these steps is not performed if you just unplug the drive. You may have discovered that it does...
Feb. 1-28 National Black History Month. It is observed annually in the United States and Canada in February. It is also called African-American History Month. In 1926, Historian Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and announced the second week of February to be “Negro History Week” in honor of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, according to Wikipedia. It has evolved since then to occupy a month. Feb. 1 National Dark Chocolate Day. Editorial opinion: The best kind of chocolate. Feb...
Irish traditional musical group Cherish the Ladies performs in Kodiak on Feb. 4, in Fairbanks on Feb. 6, and in Anchorage on Feb. 7. In Kodiak, the performance is at 7 p.m. at the Gerald C. Wilson Auditorium. Tickets available through the Kodiak Arts Council. In Fairbanks, the group will be at Hering Auditorium. In Anchorage, you can see them at the Alaska Performing Arts Center and tickets are available at CenterTix.com … Cyrano's Theatre Company is producing the romantic musical “The Fantasticks,” from Jan. 30-Feb. 22. The performance on Fe...
Alaska House Rep. Will Stapp has introduced HB 255, known as the PFD Senior Raffle Bill, which would establish two new funding mechanisms, the Senior Citizen Grants Endowment Fund and the Senior Citizen Grants Dividend Raffle Fund, to strengthen financial support for organizations serving older Alaskans. If the bill passes, Alaskans could choose to direct a portion of their Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) toward these funds and participate in associated raffles, creating a voluntary and dedicated...
Gazing up from the base of Buttermilk Falls near the north entrance of the New York State Park, it's evident why this majestic waterfall is so aptly named. With its turbulent water cascading over 165 feet of rock, the tumbling fluid creates a continuous milky foam of tiny water droplets and air bubbles, making a visit to Ithaca's Buttermilk Falls State Park truly worthwhile. The falls are deceptive, however, concealing a secret visible only after a brief hike along Gorge Trail on the western...
Senior Voice readers have lived long enough to see troubling headlines come and go. But the stories filling our news these past few weeks are especially painful for anyone who loves and looks after a child or grandchild. From the release of the Epstein files to, here at home, the painful revelations involving a Jehovah’s Witnesses congregation on the Kenai Peninsula, these stories, and others that have surfaced over the years, follow a familiar and heartbreaking pattern. Too often, institutions and organizations across sectors default to i...
Start the new year off right with a run through the woods. The First Howl is in Palmer on Jan. 1. Runners will have four hours to complete three separate loops on the Crevasse Moraine trail system. There will be a 5-mile, 3-mile, and 1-mile loop. At bib pick up, each runner will spin the wheel to determine the order of their loops. At the halfway point of each loop, runners must find a hidden book and tear out the page that matches their bib number (Barkley style) and return their page to the race director at the completion of that loop. After...
On a cold Thursday morning in the Fairbanks Job Center, a small group of seniors gather to learn more about computers and how to work with them. Their guide is also a senior, also still learning about computers. The seniors are participants in the MASST program. MASST stands for Mature Alaskans Seeking Skills Training. It's a federal program of the Department of Labor, administered by the state of Alaska Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, within the Alaska Department of Labor. The MASST...
Four Chaplains Day will be celebrated at 2 p.m. Feb. 3 at the Alaska Veterans Museum at 411 W. Fourth Ave. in Anchorage in the yellow Sunshine Building. The sinking of the U.S. Army Transport Dorchester on Feb. 3, 1943, was a tragic event during World War II, caused by a German torpedo. Of the 902 men aboard the USAT Dorchester, 672 died, leaving 230 survivors. When the news reached American shores, the nation was stunned by the magnitude of the tragedy and heroic conduct of the four chaplains. As the ship went down, survivors in nearby rafts...
Individuals impacted by the October 2025 West Coast storms have until Feb. 20 to apply for state and FEMA assistance. The State and FEMA IA programs are available for survivors in the declared areas who have experienced damages or emergency expenses from the severe storms, flooding, and remnants of Typhoon Halong that occurred Oct. 8–13, 2025. As of December 13, 1,920 survivors have applied for State IA and 1,558 FEMA IA applications have been received. Ongoing assessments and community assistance visits have indicated that many households in r...
