Birth certificates, opioid response potentially impacted by looming government shutdown

The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) is working to determine the impact of a potential government shutdown if the legislature doesn’t pass a budget before July 1.
Commissioner Valerie Davidson said programs that will stay open are those that “affect life, health and safety,” and ones that are “constitutional mandates under the Alaska Constitution and federal requirements.”
Those facilities include the Pioneer Homes, Juvenile Justice Facility, a