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CDC: Fully vaccinated people can largely ditch masks indoors
In a major step toward returning to pre-pandemic life, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eased indoor mask-wearing guidance for fully vaccinated people, allowing them to stop wearing masks outdoors in crowds and inside in most situations.
How long does protection from COVID-19 vaccines last?
“We only have information for as long as the vaccines have been studied," said Deborah Fuller, a vaccine researcher at the University of Washington. “We have to study the vaccinated population and start to see, at what point do people become vulnerable again to the virus?”
Alaska courts restore email, lack answers on cyber attack
The Alaska court system said Tuesday, May 11 it had restored email capabilities nearly two weeks after a cybersecurity attack.
Did agents raid home of wrong woman over Jan. 6 riot? Maybe
"We’re looking for Nancy Pelosi’s laptop," FBI agents told Marilyn Hueper after briefly handcuffing her.Hueper shot back: "That still doesn’t explain why you’re in my home. Or in Homer, Alaska."
Tshibaka shadowed by anti-gay article, election post
"Homosexuals can come out of homosexuality because their preference is not biologically mandated," U.S. Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka wrote in 2001. "Unlike race or gender, homosexuality is a choice."Tshibaka said she was assigned the article by an editor as a counterpoint piece. "I don’t hold that view today," she told the Associated Press.
Alaska Airlines bans Reinbold for violating mask rules
"We have notified Senator Lora Reinbold that she is not permitted to fly with us for her continued refusal to comply with employee instruction regarding the current mask policy," Alaska Airlines spokesman Tim Thompson said.
Ex-cop guilty of murder and manslaughter in Floyd case
Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has been convicted of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd.
Alaska Senate removes Reinbold as judiciary committee chair
Sen. Lora Reinbold said she told leadership she could not “pinpoint a specific concern from the random and isolated thoughts expressed by caucus members that would support a legitimate reason” to remove her as chair.
Remote Alaska villages boast high vaccination rates
“Each vaccinated person gets us one step closer to putting the pandemic behind us and getting back to living life freely like we did before COVID-19,” Gov. Mike Dunleavy said.
Report sheds little light on fatal helicopter crash
A preliminary report on a fatal helicopter crash in Alaska that killed five people, including the richest man in the Czech Republic, sheds little light on the cause.
