Don Young News

Rep. Don Young doesn't attend many big public events in Washington, so his presence was notable Thursday afternoon at a Republican rally that drew thousands of people who oppose the health care legislation scheduled for a vote this weekend in the House of Representatives.

Eielson Air Force Base will not be home to a group of F-35 fighters, the Department of Defense says.

The Coast Guard plays a huge role in Alaska, so any time Congress works on a bill affecting the agency, there's a good chance Alaska has a big stake in the outcome.

TransCanada Corporation says despite the discovery of massive amounts of natural gas in shale in the Lower 48, it still sees an Alaska Gas Pipeline as a priority.

The federal Coast Guard Authorization bill, H.R. 3619, has passed out of the U.S. House of Representatives.

The Air Force announced Thursday that Eielson Air Force Base will not be among the first military installations to receive the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

Internal investigations into the conduct of several House members have been exposed in an extraordinary, Internet-era breach of security involving the secretive process by which Congress polices lawmaker ethics.

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Attorneys on Monday will begin culling the largest jury pool ever called in Eldorado, Texas, to try to find 14 people in a county of 2,800 who can set aside what they have heard about a polygamist sect whose alleged marriages involving underage girls triggered a police raid that swept more than 400 children into state custody last year.

Alaska's congressional delegation has asked the Air Force to station the new F-35 fighter at Eielson Air Force Base.

It's an open park of trees, grass and water now, but some older people still remember when Westville was a thriving mill neighborhood.

The key witness in the federal government's corruption cases against several Alaska politicians, including former U.S. Sen.

Dozens of U.S. representatives sent a letter to the head of the President's Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force raising concerns it would try to block offshore energy development and cost Americans jobs.

With seasonal flu and H1N1 already popping up in the area, local health officials are seeking volunteers to help run vaccination clinics.

The Alaska Federation of Natives convention launches this morning in Anchorage, promising a complex look at the law and politics surrounding those basic village needs.

Elizabeth Hensley described an Alaska Native community at war Thursday. The fight is a legal one, for control of traditional Native land and hunting and fishing rights, she said, and a spiritual battle against social ills that can be traced back to colonization.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told colleagues he may include a government-run health-insurance plan in a health-care bill he will soon take to the Senate floor.

Federal prosecutors say the former chief executive of a company that did construction work for oil companies should be sentenced to nearly four years in prison for offering bribes in exchange for legislation favorable to the petroleum industry.

Former Veco chief executive Bill Allen should be sentenced to just fewer than four years in prison and fined $750,000 for his role as Alaska's corrupter in chief, federal prosecutors say.

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