Autism

Starting Tuesday (January 1, 2013), health insurance policies in Alaska will be required to cover treatment of autism spectrum disorders. A portion of that bill, setting up a task force to study such things as the state providing insurance coverage...

Starting January 1, 2013 Alaska becomes the 31st state to have a law requiring most private insurance companies to cover the diagnosis, testing and treatment of autism spectrum disorders for children and young adults up to the age of 21. Channel 2 spoke...

David joins the KTUU “Morning Edition” team with 30 years of Broadcast Meteorology experience. He has previously covered a broad variety of weather events with meteorology stints in Texas, Oklahoma, Washington, Minnesota and most recently,...

An Alaska family believes someone has deliberately dumped oil on their property in an effort to kill the ducks and chickens that neighbors say attract bears.     The family keeps the ducks for their 7-year-old autistic son. The Alaska State Troopers...

A 7-year-old Valdez boy is recovering after he fell out of a third floor window of an Anchorage hotel Sunday morning, according to the Anchorage Police Department. APD said Robert Ramage, 7, opened a sliding window and fell out around 10:10 a.m. at the...

A Wasilla family is offering a $500 reward for information leading to the safe return of their Service Dog, named Abby. The English Bulldog disappeared from the family's home on the 8700 block of Twilight Drive last Wednesday. Because Abby was...

A generous Channel 2 viewer has now increased the reward for information leading to the return of a missing Wasilla service dog to $3,000. Ruth Sisk, who runs an urgent care center for people in Anchorage, was so moved by the plight of an 8-year-old boy...

The search for a missing service dog, that was helping a young boy with autism, came to a sad end Friday night. "Abby", a specially trained service dog that belonged to eight-year-old Wyatt Reinhart of wasilla , vanished last week. Wyatt's family feared...

Wasilla community members began fundraising and working with Midnight Sun Service Dogs to get a new medical service dog after 8 year old Wyatt Reinhart's dog "Abby" was discovered dead on Friday. Reinhart, who has autism, worried he would never see his...

A happy ending for an 8-year-old boy with autism, whose service dog disappeared several weeks ago. Wyatt Reinhart met his new dog "Jack" Wednesday, thanks to "Midnight Sun Service Dogs." The organization became aware of Wyatt's situation after his...

For a Wasilla boy, suffering with symptoms of autism, it was a personal tragedy he could barely comprehend. Just over a month ago, in late May, 8-year-old Wyatt Reinhart saw his beloved Service Dog "Abby" simply disappear from his backyard. Wyatt...

On Saturday, about 100 people strapped on their running shoes in Midtown to participate in the second annual MDA Muscle Walk. A series of local walk events were held across the country to pay tribute and raise funds for children and adults served by...