Margaret Bauman
Margaret Bauman is a veteran Alaska journalist focused on covering fisheries and environmental issues. Bauman has been writing for The Cordova Times since 2010. You can reach her at fisheriesreporter@gmail.com.
NVE will get rapid detection COVID-19 test kits
UPDATED: Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium officials have selected 20 entities, including the Native Village of Eyak, to receive new state-of-the art rapid detection novel coronavirus testing kits produced by Abbott Laboratories.
Zirkle wins her sixth Iditarod humanitarian award
Veteran Iditarod Trail competitor Aliy Zirkle of Two Rivers has won her sixth Leonhard Seppala Humanitarian Award, as the musher who demonstrated outstanding care of their race team while remaining competitive.
COVID-19 cases in Alaska reach 185
State health officials confirmed on Sunday, April 5 that 14 more people in four Alaska communities have tested positive in the novel coronavirus pandemic and that one more individual has died, bringing the death toll to six.
COVID-19 cases in Alaska reach 171
More Alaskans are adhering to the state health department advisory to wear a mask when out in public, as the number of those testing positive for novel coronavirus rose to 171 and the death toll to five.
It’s no business as usual for fishing industry
For Alaska’s commercial fisheries industry in 2020, things will hardly be business as usual.
Zink praises Alaskans for efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19
Even as the number of confirmed cases of novel coronavirus in Alaska rose on Thursday, April 2, state health officials commended Alaskans for helping to slow the spread of the pandemic, buying time for building capability to deal with more illness.
Cordova considers antibody testing
Cordova officials are looking at all possible options to keep the city free of the novel coronavirus responsible for the pandemic, including antibody testing for everyone arriving in town, even before they self-quarantine, says Mayor Clay Koplin.
143 Alaskans have tested positive for COVID-19
Ten new people have tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Alaska, boosting the statewide total to 143 cases, with no additional hospitalizations or deaths, state health officials say.
Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Alaska reach 133
Numbers of people who have tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Alaska keep on slowly rising as state officials employ new mandates to slow the spread while building up health care resources to treat more anticipated patients. On Tuesday, March 31, the addition of 14 more people testing positive for COVID-19 pushed the statewide total to 133 people out of more than 4,600 who have been tested in Alaska.
Alaska confirmed cases of COVID-19 reaches 119
State health officials reported five new cases of the novel coronavirus in Alaska on Monday, March 30, two each in Anchorage and Fairbanks and one in Palmer, boosting the statewide total to 119 people.
