FAIRBANKS, Ak. — When vaccines rolled out across the country, getting shots to families in rural communities took extra time and coordination. In Alaska, pharmacists have had to fly small planes and ...

A dog in musher Paige Drobny's team, lined up for the March 5, 2022, ceremonial start, wears a jacket urging vaccination. A bill introduced prior to the start of the 2026 legislative session would ...

FAIRBANKS, Ak. — To understand life in the farthest corners of America, you have to see it: the beauty of nature, the rugged, unforgiving cold, and the people of Alaska. It’s the people across a state ...

Yereth Rosen Alaska Beacon Dec 7, 2025 Dec 7, 2025 Western Alaska, where almost all the residents are Indigenous, used to have the world’s highest rate of childhood liver cancer caused by Hepatitis B.

It’s not easy to get the COVID-19 vaccine to the more remote parts of the world. In Alaska, where the vials are going out to rural areas on chartered planes and water taxis, a dedicated group of women ...

As the Trump administration chips away at longstanding childhood vaccine standards, a newly introduced bill in the Alaska Legislature would give state health officials the option of following vaccine ...