Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Baby products line the shelves on March 3, 2026, at an aisle in an Anchorage grocery store. Fewer babies are being born in Alaska, ...

A troubling side effect of Alaska's spike in opiod abuse is getting increased attention from health care officials: drug-dependent babies who go through withdrawal in the first days of their lives. In ...

Fewer Alaska babies were born in 2024 than the year prior, continuing a yearslong decline in the state’s births and women’s fertility rates, a new report shows. There were 8,950 Alaska babies born ...

Mothers in Alaska’s northern and western regions are more likely than other Alaska mothers to give birth to preterm and underweight babies, and their travel from rural Alaska to get care in bigger ...

Every new parent faces the difficult decision of choosing the perfect name for a newborn. First names rarely get changed after being assigned and carry with them a wide range of meanings and ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - With a new year comes new life — both metaphorically and literally — and one Anchorage mother now can claim the title of being first to deliver this year. The first baby of ...

At Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage, 14 babies have been infected by MRSA since March, according to a News Tribune news report. In addition, the hospital discovered 17 other babies are ...

A mother with her newborn baby in the hospital. Mothers from northern and Western Alaska are more likely than other Alaska mothers to give birth preterm, and the travel that many rural Alaska women ...

Fewer Alaska babies are being born and more Alaskans are dying, causing the state’s natural population increase margin to shrink substantially over the past decade, according to state demographers.