On a cold, recent night, it's quiet around Anchorage's Providence Alaska Medical Center. Not many vehicles pass by on Providence Drive, and with temperatures in the single digits, not many pedestrians are moving around either.
Average costs for nursing home care in the United States climbed significantly in 2006 with Alaska coming in with the highest rates at $388 a day, according to a study by New York Life Insurance Co.
Thursday is the Great America Smoke-out Day. People nationwide are putting away their cigarettes for better heath. One Alaskan business is taking it one step further by banning tobacco all together.
Starting this morning, there will be no shivering smokers outside the Alaska Native Medical Center. The organizations that run the hospital and surrounding medical buildings have a new, super-strict tobacco ban.
As our supposed star TV and newspaper reporters spend their days after the November 7 elections trying to figure out who the Democratic and Republican leaders will be in the next Congress, who's up, who's down -- thus taking their eye off the real unfolding news as usual -- has no one noticed that the existing lame-duck outgoing Congress, both conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats, are
More than two dozen Anchorage schools are named after people. The newest on the list: Nicholas Joseph Begich Middle School, which won the Anchorage School Board's vote Monday night as the name for the new facility on DeBarr Road near Muldoon Road.
Admissions at Alaska Psychiatric Institute in Anchorage have increased significantly in recent years, and according to an API census report, much of that increase is coming from the Valley.
