...University of New Mexico School of Medicine.Broke and homesick for Alaska, Winn said he signed on to join the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps in 1975. In 1978 he began commuting monthly to Ketchikan, to work at the Gateway Center...

SITKA - Every third Thursday in November, tobacco users are encouraged to set a date to quit or pledge to be smoke-free for 24 hours as a part of the American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout.

...excellence, though, quite frankly, not too surprised."Dr. Hort, who holds the rank of Commander with the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, is the sole pediatric dental consultant for Southeast Alaska and is a Diplomate of the...

The Cruise Ship Wastewater Science Advisory Panel reviewed a draft statement to be presented to the Alaska State Legislature in 2013 when its members met in Juneau Sept. 19 - 21.

SITKA - Every third Thursday in November, tobacco users are encouraged to set a date to quit or pledge to be smoke-free for 24 hours as a part of the American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout.

Longtime Juneau resident Rosine A. Foster died peacefully at home on July 16, 2012 at the age of 94. She was born in Nebraska City, Nebraska on February 3, 1918 to Mary and John Eglsaer. Orphaned shortly after her sixteenth birthday, she became the

Every third Thursday in November, tobacco users are encouraged to make a plan and set a date to quit for life, or pledge to be smoke-free for 24 hours as a part of the American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout.

Two-term Hoonah Mayor, Alf Robert Skaflestad, known all his life as Windy Skaflestad died at home on Jan. 28 of prostate cancer. He was 75 years old. Windy was born in a little cabin in Hoonah on Sept. 20, 1936 to Matilda Greenewald and Alf Skaflestad.

Dr. J. Russell "Russ" Bowman has been promoted by the SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consoritum to the position of medical director for community health care services.

It isn't every day when the president of the United States gives out letters of commendation to 20 Alaskan civilians at the same time. Those same individuals also received gold medals and each received $25 from the territory of Alaska. So, you might ask, what occasion caused this to happen? Well, the president was Calvin Coolidge and the occasion was the 1925 diphtheria epidemic in Nome.