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Alaska Senate committee leaders say they've created a 'buffer' against a huge deficit that legislators expect to confront ...
Alaskans rallied in communities statewide for May Day, in support of workers and protesting Trump administration policies.
A dry winter in parts of southcentral Alaska is expected to cause a bad wildfire season, and legislators are sounding an ...
Ted Crookston and Russ George write in a commentary that a Cook Inlet fishing experiment is about survival — for fish and ...
A task force report produced several bills, but options for quick action are constrained by the state’s dire fiscal situation ...
The bill was inspired by the death of Alaska State Trooper canine Rico, who was shot and killed during a 2017 police chase in ...
Alaskans insured through the Affordable Care Act marketplace — about 25,000 people — could see their rates rise by an average ...
The Alaska Senate will vote as soon as Friday on legislation that seeks to permanently increase K-12 public school funding, but Gov. Mike Dunleavy has vowed to veto the bill if it passes as currently ...
The cooperative insurance pools are seen as an alternative for commercial fishers facing high premiums from traditional ...
Idaho State University President Robert Wagner writes iabout a pharmacy school that has a program at the University of Alaska ...
If the committee figure becomes final, it would be the smallest dividend in state history, when adjusted for inflation.
North of Fairbanks, hundreds of workers at Alaska’s biggest gold mine dig up, haul, crush and grind thousands of tons of ore each day, year-round. The sprawling Fort Knox mine consumes $40 million ...