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Provisions that would have shielded the state from some health care and food stamp cuts appear to be on the path to failure.
In rural central Alaska, a village is in the midst of a clean energy transformation that locals say will boost savings, build ...
House Speaker Bryce Edgmon and Senate Majority Leader Cathy Giessel say the 'one big beautiful bill' approaching a Senate ...
Mr. Edgmon, an independent, is speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives and lives in Dillingham. Ms. Giessel, a ...
After nearly 40 years in Alaska’s state Capitol, Sen. Lyman Hoffman is calling it quits. On Wednesday, the Bethel Democrat ...
Every year, the Huntington family spent about $7,000 on diesel to heat the cabin during bone-chilling winters, and a few ...
Gov. Mike Dunleavy told legislative leaders Monday that he had vetoed a bipartisan bill that the heads of the state House and ...
The state’s school funding formula is normally sacrosanct but Gov. Mike Dunleavy made the move due to declining revenue forecasts. The Legislature won’t attempt to override him until next year.
The Alaska House Judiciary Committee plans to hold a hearing June 20 on the use of Alaska Department of Corrections facilities to house and supervise federal detainees for U.S. Immigration and Customs ...
Mike Dunleavy made a precedent-setting veto by cutting funding for the state’s public school education formula, a group of city and borough leaders denounced the decision during a joint news ...
Apr. 8—JUNEAU — The Alaska House's budget is stuck, with disagreements on the size of the Permanent Fund dividend, school funding and the size of the budget itself. The House Finance Committee ...