NOTN- A fire inside Bartlett Regional Hospital forced evacuations and canceled surgeries, but no serious injuries were reported.
According to a press release issued by Bartlett, officials say the fire started just before 2 p.m. in a utility closet in the Surgical Services unit after a worker accidentally cut into electrical heat tape.
A Code Red alert was issued, and hospital staff, patients, and visitors were evacuated as a precaution.
The fire was quickly contained by maintenance crews and Capital City Fire and Rescue.
An all-clear was given later in the afternoon, but outpatient appointments were canceled for the rest of the day, and all elective surgeries scheduled for tomorrow have been called off.
One worker was treated and released, and no patients or visitors were hurt.
NOTN- A plane crash in Southeast Alaska sent one person to the hospital Thursday morning.
The U.S. Coast Guard received a report just after 10 a.m. of a downed aircraft near Shelter Island in Lynn Canal, KINY was sent a note from an internal source close to 12:00 p.m., as of yet the pilot’s condition has not yet been released.
The plane, operated by Ward Air, was carrying only the pilot.
The pilot was pulled from the water by another Ward Air seaplane and taken to a hospital for treatment, there are unconfirmed claims that the pilot may have suffered a head injury, though this is currently hearsay.
It’s been reported the plane was a float plane, but an unnamed source has said it was a Wheel Plane, specifically a CESSNA 206, KINY is unable to substantiate that claim, Ward Air representatives declined to comment when contacted by phone this afternoon.
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A Ward Air plane went down in Lynn Canal near Shelter Island on Thursday morning, with the pilot as the sole occupant hospitalized, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
“The Coast Guard was notified at 10:17 a.m. today of a downed Cessna plane with one person on board approximately 1.5 miles offshore Boy Scout Beach,” Shannon Shepard, a USCG Arctic District spokesperson, wrote in an email to the Juneau Independent. She said the plane belonged to Ward Air, a Juneau-based charter company that flies throughout Southeast Alaska.
“The Coast Guard issued an Urgent Marine Information Broadcast and launched a response boat crew from Coast Guard Station Juneau and a helicopter aircrew from Coast Guard Air Station Sitka. The pilot was recovered from the water by a Ward Air seaplane and taken to a hospital for medical care.”
No information was provided about the pilot’s condition or the cause of the plane going down. Ward Air declined to comment on the crash Thursday.
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A professor at Furman University told the Alaska Legislature Task Force on Education Funding Wednesday afternoon that standardized test results might not be the most appropriate set of data on which to base education policy decisions.
During a routine presentation on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation’s Report Card, Paul Thomas backed a principle that legislators should not make decisions about students and schools based on a single standardized test.
“The key to understanding test data in Alaska is the information on poverty,” Thomas said.
Alaska’s NAEP scores of fourth- and eighth- grade Alaskans ranked lower than the national public in mathematics and reading in 2024. According to the Nation’s Report Card, approximately 69% of students performing below the 25th percentile are economically disadvantaged while economically disadvantaged students make up 48% of Alaskan students.
“Education policy and socioeconomic policy are really strongly connected,” Thomas said. “Test scores are a reflection of the socioeconomic status of the students.”
State education officials led legislators through a practice test of the Alaska System of Academic Readiness, commonly referred to as the AK STAR. Each fall, winter, and spring, Alaskan students in grades 3-9 take the MAP Growth assessment and each spring, Alaskan students take the AK STAR.
Kelly Melin, who works for the Department of Education and Early Development’s Assessments and Standards Administration, said the state’s standardized tests are designed to satisfy federal requirements set forth in the Every Student Succeeds Act.
“We’ve taken the power of an interim assessment and the need for a summative assessment as was dictated through ESSA and connected those to come up with what we have as AK STAR,” Melin said.
Kelly Manning, the department’s Director of Innovation and Education Excellence, said that the purpose of assessments is to measure the state’s ability to close the achievement gap and measure students’ ability to read at grade level by the third grade.
Statewide, about 33% of students tested at or above grade level expectations in language arts and 32% in math in 2025. Students in ninth grade demonstrated the greatest need for support in language arts and math.
The esting window for Alaska students closes on May 1. AK STAR results will be available to school districts in July and statewide in the fall.
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