Alaska Government News

The state Senate Education Committee started discussion of a plan Monday that would change how Alaska intervenes in struggling school districts.

Supporters said Monday that the bill would ensure that existing abortion coverage will be preserved once federal health insurance rules come into effect under the Affordable Care Act in 2014.

That's right. I've driven around with an Obama 2008 bumper sticker on the back of my vehicle for the better part of four years.

A major focus of the Legislature this week will be energy, with five state House members traveling Washington D.C. to urge opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling and state Senators at home discussing oil taxes.

In a state Capitol meeting room hundreds of miles from where most Alaskans live, a Senate panel is digging into one of the most complex and important issues in state government: How much to tax Big Oil.

The Alaska Film Office has removed the stamp of secrecy from the financial information about movies and TV shows subsidized in Alaska.

Already under watch by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency , Fairbanks is coming under scrutiny by the environmental agency again after a resident complained of black dust near a power plant downtown.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - In a meeting room at a Spenard hotel this weekend, Alaskans seeking a medical marijuana card can line up to see a Los Angeles ophthalmologist in town to evaluate their medical need for pot -- at $225 a "patient." "The Healing Center Medical Clinic" will be Friday through Sunday at the Millennium Hotel, the second such session ... (more)

Commissioner Dan Sullivan of the Department of Natural Resources has come under attack for proposing the department's mission statement be changed.

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Alaska's economic future is on the line if more oil doesn't flow through the 800-mile trans-Alaska pipeline.

Hard on the heels of its preliminary report, released on Jan. 20, the Alaska Northern Waters Task Force has now published its full report, setting out the Task Force's findings.

A contingent of state representatives including House Speaker Mike Chenault are missing several days of the legislative session next week to head to Washington, D.C., and make a pitch - once again - for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The U.S. Air Force chief of staff will be in Alaska next week on a visit scheduled prior to the announcement that Eielson Air Force Base's F-16 fighter planes are to be moved to the Anchorage area, leading to calls from the state's congressional delegation that he discuss the move while in the state.

Last Monday was the birth date of Ernest Gruening, one of the most significant figures in Alaska's history, a history rich in larger-than-life characters.

Navigating the legal system alone can be daunting for average citizens but expensive if you must hire a lawyer, who starts running the meter with the first call.

Dr. John Aho, chairman of the Alaska Seismic Hazards Safety Commission, has been selected to receive the 2012 lifetime achievement award in seismic risk reduction from the Western States Seismic Policy Council.

Alaska state health officials say they are responding to an increase in cases of confirmed and suspected tuberculosis in the Yukon-Kuskokwim region.

The Issue: Some Republican governors plan to reduce or eliminate the income tax in their states.

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered today that the 500-page report into the Justice Department's botched corruption case against Stevens be released March 15.