Alaska had the biggest decline in average life expectancy of all U.S. states in 2021, a year when health outcomes were heavily influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent national ...

Set between Arctic tundra and the icy ocean, Utqiaġvik is the northernmost city in the US, home to about 4,500 people and ...

100-year-old veteran John Franklin Strong shows a photo taken from his service during World War II, at his home in South Anchorage on Sept. 15, 2025. John Strong paged through a stack of papers to ...

Alaska had the biggest decline in average life expectancy of all U.S. states in 2021, a year when health outcomes were heavily influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent national ...