Aging with dignity: Alaska’s growing senior population presents challenges
Alaska is experiencing one of the fastest-growing senior populations in the nation. This raises key challenges when it comes to the moral, social and economic obligations that younger people have to properly care for their elders.
Planned Parenthood asks judge to overturn Alaska’s telehealth abortion ban
The abortion giant claims chemical abortions are “safe and effective,” despite the fact that the drugs have serious, and sometimes life-threatening side
Deadline looms for Dunleavy to veto bill that AK pro-lifers say will expand chemical abortion
Gov. Mike Dunleavy has a few days left to decide whether to veto a bill that many pro-life advocates say will vastly expand the killing of unborn babies through
Adam Crum taps health care leader Robert Craig for Lt. Gov. running mate
Alaska gubernatorial hopeful Adam Crum has chosen health care executive Robert T. Craig III as his lieutenant governor running
Alaska set to spend up to $5M to blanket state with mobile vax clinics
Amid lower vaccination rates and persistent public skepticism about vaccine recommendations, Alaska’s Department of Health (DOH) is set to embark on a massive statewide community vaccination operation, deploying scores of mobile clinics at fairs, public
OPINION: Kenai Borough’s deadly fentanyl crisis requires robust enforcement crackdown
The Kenai Peninsula does not lack compassion for those caught in addiction; it lacks the institutional will to treat opioid trafficking as the violent commercial-criminal enterprise that it
OPINION: Why can’t Alaska follow Texas and open a gender ‘detransition’ clinic?
Alaska's State Medical Board drafted regulations in August 2025 to prevent minors from being surgically and chemically mutilated by medical professionals. This matter has been sitting in the Dunleavy Administration for 9
Alaska legislature passes ‘Baby Box’ bill to protect surrendered infants
The Alaska Legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill to establish safety devices - also known as “baby boxes” – that can provide an additional option for struggling parents who want to safely surrender infants in times of
U.S. Supreme Court says mail-order abortion pills can continue while court case proceeds
In a deeply troubling decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily allowed the continued mailing of dangerous abortion drugs into pro-life states while litigation
AK House passes bill that could expand chemical abortions via pharmacists
Eleven Republicans in the Alaska State House joined all their Democrat and left-leaning independent colleagues to pass a bill which many pro-lifers see as an abortion expansion
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