Posts Tagged ‘Public Health’
Not a Drop to Drink
Your support enables KNOM to provide crucially-needed information to rural Alaska: such as when, earlier this year, two listening communities were placed on “boil water” notices because of concerns of tap water contamination.
Read MoreInside Gambell’s New Health Clinic, Now Open to Patients
After years of making do with an overcrowded building, Norton Sound Health Corporation employees in Gambell now have a bigger and newer space to accommodate the community’s needs.
Read MoreProfile: Regional Public Intoxication — What Can Be Done to Curb the Issue?
Public intoxication seems to be getting worse in western Alaska. What steps can be taken to curb the problem? And can it ever fully be addressed?
Read MoreTo the polls
Like all across the country, voters in Western Alaska went to the polls on November 5th. In Nome, the items on the ballot were relatively few: a run-off contest for a city council seat and an advisory vote on whether to add fluoride to the municipal water supply. The vote, albeit in an “off” year,…
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