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January 20, 2021 by Hope McKenney, KUCB – Unalaska The four cases mark the first confirmed COVID-19 outbreak at any of Trident’s Alaska facilities. (Laura Kraegel/KUCB) A second seafood processing plant in the Aleutian Islands has been hit with COVID-19 infections as the busy winter pollock fishing season is set to kick off. The U.S. Coast Guard …

The Kodiak Area Emergency Services Organization has confirmed that the Kodiak Island Borough has passed 1000 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. In an update containing information from over the weekend as well as from Monday and Tuesday, sixteen new cases were reported for the Kodiak Island Borough, including four travel related …

The Federal Trade Commission will vote Tuesday on whether to issue a final rule banning noncompete agreements. The Biden administration has argued that noncompetes harm workers and stifle competition.

Tesla's sales are down. It's slashing car prices and laying off staff. Yet CEO Elon Musk remains bullish on a future that's self-driving and battery-powered.

February 9, 2021 by Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media Ron Thiessen, CEO of Pebble’s parent company, was secretly recorded talking to men he thought were investors. (Still from EIA video) The parent company of the proposed Pebble Mine said it’s cooperating with a federal grand jury investigation. The company said the case relates to conversations about the …

Today on the midday news report with host Terry Haines: Juneau hosts a Covid-19 clinic for those 65+ The municipality of Anchorage creates government to government relationships with the Native Village of Eklutna. AK National Guard members fly to DC to support presidential inauguration. All that and more on today’s midday news report.

By Sabine Poux, KDLL – Soldotna – January 15, 2021 Cook Inlet oil platforms are visible from shore near Kenai, Alaska. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk) The federal government has released a draft environmental impact statement on an oil and gas lease sale in Cook Inlet, tentatively scheduled for late 2021. The Bureau of …

January 14, 2021 by Robyne, KUAC- Fairbanks Many businesses closed or reduced operations early on during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Abbey Collins/Alaska Public Media) Alaska businesses will soon be able to apply for a second round of Paycheck Protection Program loans. The second COVID-19 relief and spending package passed by Congress in December includes $284 billion more for …

The Kodiak Area Emergency Services Organization has reported six new close contact COVID-19 cases for the Kodiak Island Borough. This brings the total case count to 979 cases, with 48 cases classified as active locally. There have been 39 local hospitalizations to date, with five deaths locally. There are no currently active local COVID-19 hospitalizations. …

Dr. Shana Theobald holds up a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. While it’s certain that some doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine were distributed on Kodiak, no one is quite sure how many. The Kodiak Island Ambulatory Care Clinic confirmed that they had distributed about 25 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, …