Former Advanced Nurse Practitioner Jessica Joyce Spayd (52) was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 30 years (360 months) imprisonment for illegally prescribing and dispensing opioids outside the scope of legitimate medical practice that resulted in the deaths of five people between 2014 and 2019. United States District Judge Joshua M. Kindred handed down the sentence.

Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy signed the Fiscal Year 2024 state operating and capital budgets into law on Sunday, June 18th, 2023.

This year, The Alaska Community Foundation and Rasmuson Foundation worked together to maintain the initiative and provide safe and well-staffed environments for young people in Alaska.

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) announced Thursday June 15th, that the Department of the Interior is distributing $35.4 million to eligible local governments across Alaska through the Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program and the Kenai Peninsula Borough was granted $3,634,007.

With these new patients joining four from late May, nine harbor seal pups are now under ASLC care.

U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) joined 22 of her colleagues to reintroduce the Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL) Protection Act of 2023 to address the unacceptably high number of “smash-and-grab” thefts targeted at federally licensed gun dealers by enhancing penalties for criminals who steal firearms from federally licensed firearms and ammunition dealers.

Online purchasing using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits has arrived in Alaska, announced Alaska’s Division of Public Assistance with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS).