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Alaska Department of Corrections reports record-tying 18 deaths in custody this year

The Alaska Department of Corrections has reported 18 people have died in custody of the state’s prisons and jails so far this ...
Alaska Public Media

Report documents racial disparities in pandemic death rates in Alaska

Between June 2020 and January 2021, the age-adjusted COVID-19 mortality rate among American Indian and Alaska Native people ...
Alaska Dispatch News

The short life and sudden death of one of Alaska’s longest-institutionalized psychiatric patients

Duop Tharjiath, the son of Sudanese refugees, was found dead in his room at the Alaska Psychiatric Institute in late March. Tharjiath, 29 when he died, spent more than five years as a patient at the ...
Alaska Public Media

Questions remain after Alaska psychiatric patient's death, including how he died

Lingering questions around the death earlier this year of a man held at the Alaska Psychiatric Institute have renewed scrutiny of Alaska's only state-run mental hospital. Duop Tharjiath was 29 when he ...
Alaska Dispatch News

Rare complication from gonorrhea infection results in Alaska death

An Alaska woman has died from a severe complication of gonorrhea that is rare but has increased in frequency in the state, health officials reported. The woman, in her 50s, had disseminated gonococcal ...
Alaska Beacon

Alaska report describes COVID-19 phases and lessons for future pandemic responses

The state’s experience with the disease unfolded in seven phases, and Alaska Natives had the highest death rates, says ...
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Alaska leaders react to shooting death of Charlie Kirk, well-known conservative activist

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Charlie Kirk, a well-known right-wing political activist, died Wednesday after being shot at a Utah Valley University event, President Donald Trump said on Truth Social ...