State & Feds Say 'Rural' Health Rollout Was A Victory. But Hundreds of Desperate Alaska Medical Services Were Rejected

BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME  Still Reeling From Rejection & Watching Large City Organizations Sweep Up Funding For Rural Health, Small Organiz...

As Rural Alaska Begs For Basic Health Care, Large Canadian Grocer Gets $1.8 Million... To Grow Plants

COPPER RIVER COUNTRY JOURNAL When Health Care Transformation  Means Growing Carrots  Google Search For 'Polar Permaculture', or Indo...

State Says Covid Deaths Are Really Dropping. But Twenty-Two Alaskans Died Of The Disease In 2025-2026

  COVID still sickens Alaskans, but effects are muted and the death toll continues to drop Years after the pandemic peak, the virus is consi...

State Of Alaska Reports Last Winter's Flu Season Killed 36 People. Vaccination Rates Are Far Lower Here Than In U.S.

REPORT ON INFLUENZA FROM THE STATE OF ALASKA EPIDEMIOLOGY DEPARTMENT  SEPTEMBER, 2026 Alaska’s 2025–26 influenza season was more active and ...

Alaska's Rural Areas, In Dire Need Of Medical Care, Struggle To Get Funding Despite $272 Million Health Giveaway

COPPER RIVER COUNTRY JOURNAL  Boots-On-The-Ground, Hands-On Rural Alaska Health Care Doesn't Look Like A Priority In Massive Federal Hea...

State Announces Alaska 'Rural Health' Funding Awards Going To: Anchorage, Bristol Bay, Haines, Denali, Nome & Others

  Alaska Department of Health Announces First Group of Rural Health Transformation Program Awards  Rolling weekly announcements recognize pr...

2026 CDC Epidemic Trend Summary: Covid Rates Growing In 41 States This Summer

 Alaska Is One Of The States Which Feds Say Has Growing Covid Rates This Summer  CDC Map & Statement July 29th, 2026  As of July 29, 202...

With Measles Cases In America Higher Than In 35 Years, RFK Jr. Changes Course

 RFK Jr. Tells Americans To Vaccinate Their Kids Against Measles. Numbers In Past Two Years Now More Than Exceed All Infections For The Rest...

Huge Amount of Money Earmarked For Rural Alaska Health As Medicaid Is Cut. There's A March 11th Deadline

 A Tight Deadline  Rural Alaska Scrambles To Plan Health Care Improvements As Massive Amount Of Health Funding Suddenly Becomes Available   ...

Natives Are Three Times More Likely To Die From Various Cancers Warns American Cancer Society

Information board for CRNA's Tobacco Quit Line at  Robert Marshall Clinic in Tazlina ( Journal photo, June, 2021) Cancer incidence rate...

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