Katharine Bramante

Data from the 1950 Census was released this year. Here's what that information tells us — and what some early homesteaders remember about that time.

The spike in overdose mortality includes an increase in deaths related to fentanyl — a synthetic opioid that is much more potent than other narcotics. Shari Conner with Change 4 the Kenai said the Kenai Peninsula had a cluster of fentanyl-suspected overdoses at the height of the pandemic.