Two young Sitkans have tested positive for the coronavirus. Sitka health officials announced the new cases in a press release today (8-5-20). Both female patients are between 10 and 19 years old. Both had symptoms when...
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A view of Metlakatla on Annette Island, Alaska’s only Native reserve. (File photo by Leila...
Read MoreSEARHC personnel test a colleague for COVID-19 at the employee screening tent behind the hospital. Sitka, Alaska. April 28, 2020. (KCAW photo/Berett Wilber) Local health officials announced Sitka’s thirty-seventh confirmed...
Read MoreAs part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, congress appropriated $100 million earlier this year to help tribes cope with housing and sanitation issues during the coronavirus pandemic. The funding is...
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The Petersburg School District is still negotiating plans for reopening school this fall, taking into account the ever-changing guidelines from the State as well as input from public health, parents and teachers. But a plan is starting to take shape.
Read MorePictured: COVID-19 screeners at Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport on June 13, 2020. Beginning on August 11, non-residents will no longer be able to receive COVID-19 tests when they arrive in Alaska. They must instead test before...
Read MoreSmall businesses and nonprofits in Sitka now qualify for CARES Act grants through a city program. Pictured: businesses in downtown Sitka (KCAW/Berett Wilber) Sitka businesses and nonprofits can now apply for federal CARES Act...
Read MoreSoutheast Alaska Regional Health Consortium is sponsoring a walking challenge across Southeast Alaska for the second year in a row. (Photo by Katherine Rose/KCAW) SEARHC kicked off a month-long challenge called Start Stepping...
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