• Alaska’s first on-site addiction treatment for those who overdose launches with pilot programs

    Dr. Jennifer Pierce with an Anchorage Fire Department vehicle on Jan. 9, 2026. Pierce and the vehicle are part of a new program that will offer addiction treatment to those who overdose. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media)
    Stomping through stubborn, crunchy January snow, Dr. Jennifer Pierce made her way recently to a new Anchorage Fire Department vehicle. It might look like a simple SUV, but it’s equipped as a new mobile unit that – for the first time – will allow emergency resp
  • Proposed surcharge on oil would help pay for responses to climate-related disasters in Alaska

    A fish camp in the Nome area, seen on Sept. 24, 2022, shows damages wreaked by the remnants of Typhoon Merbok. The day before, then-President Biden declared a major disaster for a vast stretch of western Alaska that had been slammed with high winds and floods caused by the remnants of that typhoon. The storm is among several recent disasters in Alaska that scientists link to climate change. (Photo by Jeremy Edwards/Federal Emergency Management Agency)
    Landslides, storm-driven floods, infrastruct

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