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Senate’s oil tax bill ready in less than two weeks, Senate President saysSenate President Gary Stevens, R-Kodiak, says the Senate’s version of an oil tax reform bill is being drafted and will be before the Senate Resources Committee within two weeks. |
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Tentative deal reached in education quality caseThe state agreed Thursday to settle an eight-year case over education quality. |
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Girls-only program aims for more female engineersAs president of her school's National Honor Society chapter, Mirror Lake Middle School eighth grader Catherine Goolsby is as sharp as they come. |
US cybersecurity efforts trigger privacy concernsThe federal government's plan to expand computer security protections into critical parts of private industry is raising concerns that the move will threaten Americans' civil liberties. |
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Report: Electronic health records still need workAmerica may be a technology-driven nation, but the health care system's conversion from paper to computerized records needs lots of work to get the bugs out, according to experts who spent months studying the issue. |
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Hospitals expanding across the stateAlaska’s medical facility expansions have boomed over the last few years. Consensus among hospital administrators reveals that current facilities cannot adequately serve expanding populations. As such, a number of hospital projects have recently gotten under way or have been announced. |
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Report: Alaska health care industry boomingThe health care industry is booming in Alaska, and growth will continue. Health care providers pay a $1.53 billion annual statewide payroll with nearly $1 billion of that in the Anchorage and Matanuska-Susitna regions of Southcentral Alaska. |
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Alaska CHIPRA gets hefty renewal bonus for kids’ MedicaidAlaska just got a renewed boost in improving children’s Medicaid accessibility. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a performance bonus of $5,660,544 to improve the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization processes. |
Economists: Things OK for 2012, watch out for year afterThis year looks OK. Watch out for next year. |
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The cost of having diabetes in Alaska isn’t cheap or easyDiabetes isn’t cheap. Luckily, the number of Alaskans who have it are relatively few. Still, those who do can expect to pay out the nose ... and in more ways than one. |
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