Supplemental budget passes, Alaskans lost millions in federal health care help because of GOP
As most lawmakers try to play it safe, one argued they should be busy praising the president for bailing the state out rather than worrying about what-ifs.
'Delicate balance' election bill clears the House, on track to pass the Legislature
Oil price certainty is in the eye of the beholder. Bipartisan election bill passes with technically bipartisan support. Legislators get some big, bad numbers for rising health care costs.
Even at its second-most volatile point, Alaska can't quit oil
Ultimately, forecasts are just forecasts, and as House Majority Leader Chuck Kopp joked on the House floor on Monday, "the sole purpose of oil price forecasting is to make astrology look respectable."
The oil price roller coaster and Begich's legislative address
Let's unpack the latest tribulations on oil prices through the very best of metaphors – the roller coaster.
As legislators rail against feds accessing voter info, Dunleavy officials say they'd do it again
State officials say they wanted to be good partners with the Trump administration.
A legend lost, a teacher leaves and chilling questions for ICE
Alaska lost one of the best to ever put ink to paper.
A shocking arrest rattles the Legislature and a long-overdue oil tax rewrite lands
It's a bigger problem than just the Anchorage Young Republicans or even the Alaska Republican Party.
Sullivan Sullivans and the Senate advances Mount Edgecumbe bill
The handful of questions he did permit made it pretty clear why he doesn't take many outside his carefully curated sphere of safety
Sullivan's safe space, sales tax dumped and PFD panic
A time crunch or a convenient excuse? A fix for a flailing bill. And is the PFD really going away?
State's penny-wise handling of Mt. Edgecumbe shows the folly of running schools like a business
It's Friday, Alaska. In this edition: If we needed an example of why the Dunleavy administration's top-down, run-it-like-a-business approach to everything isn't well-suited for the state's public education system, then look no further than the only school the state's directly
