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Walker touts trade relations with China after gasline talks
Gov. Bill Walker is hopeful the inroads his administration has made with top-level officials in the Chinese government…
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Legislators launch secret internal investigation
The Alaska Legislature’s internal Legislative Council is opening an internal investigation, but after a six-hour closed-door meeting, lawmakers…
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Budget cuts hit prosecutors hard
To see how state budget cuts are affecting Alaska’s legal system, head to Juneau’s courthouse and search the…
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Special legislative session staggers toward end
JUNEAU — The special legislative session is staggering toward its end scheduled for Tuesday, with a small contingent…
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Anchorage Republicans seek to move Legislature from Juneau
A pair of Anchorage Republicans have announced their intentions to begin raising money for a 2020 ballot initiative…
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Alaska State Troopers investigate man who threatened lawmakers for ‘coddling the guilty’
House floor debates over Senate Bill 54 enter their fourth day today after a tumultuous weekend that saw…
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Alaska House starts voting on rollback of criminal justice reform
As voting began Saturday morning on floor amendments to Senate Bill 54, members of the Alaska House of…
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Analysis: ‘0 percent’ chance Legislature addresses deficit this year
On taxes, the gap between the coalition majority that runs the Alaska House of Representatives and the predominantly…
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Alaska mayors again plead for Legislature to fix deficit
For the past two years, mayors across Alaska have pleaded for the Alaska Legislature to do something —…
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Senator, former backer of SB91, seeks its repeal
Sen. Mia Costello has heard enough. Seventeen months ago, the Anchorage Republican was among the co-sponsors of Senate…
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Overdose-reducing drug could come to schools
The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District has the opportunity to obtain Narcan, a brand of the drug naloxone…
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Walker to call fourth special session
The Alaska Legislature will try to find a new hope in the fourth special session of the year.…
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Walker celebrates industry, talks diversification
While celebrating the industries that fuel the Kenai Peninsula, Gov. Bill Walker stressed the importance of diversifying Alaska’s…
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Footing Alaska’s bill: Legislators talk about state budget
The Kenai Peninsula’s three legislators spoke Wednesday to an audience of Kenai and Soldotna Chamber of Commerce members…
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Kenai Peninsula gets 6 projects in capital budget
The Kenai Peninsula will get a few projects funded in the Legislature’s fiscal year 2018, the majority of…
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House passes $1.4B capital budget
In a one-day special session Thursday, the Alaska Legislature passed a $1.4 billion capital construction budget, then adjourned…
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Young Alaskans shadow Murkowski on Capitol Hill
From the outside, Capitol Hill seems like a hectic place this summer, but a group of ten recent…
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Oil tax credits re-emerge as issue for Alaska lawmakers
JUNEAU (AP) — Alaska Senate Republicans put pressure on the House Thursday to end a program that financially…
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Legislature averts shutdown, but more work remains
The morning after the Alaska Legislature averted a statewide shutdown, you could find more tourists than legislators in…
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Alaska Legislature averts shutdown with nine days to spare
With nine days to spare, the Alaska Legislature has averted a statewide government shutdown. At 1:04 p.m. Thursday…