Category: Alaska News

Nonpartisan analysts say Mary Peltola has a fighting chance but that Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan has the edge in a state President Trump won handily.

State lawmakers expect a messy session this year as legislators grapple with the state’s fiscal future.

A lengthy agenda awaits lawmakers when they return to the Capitol on Tuesday.

A lack of enforcement has created frustration among police officers and the public for years, Anchorage Police Chief Sean Case said.

In the brief window before the rollback, the Fairbanks Native Association said the terminations would impact many of its behavioral health programs.

Emergency responders will offer people medication to help them make it through a critical window when overdose survivors are at high risk of dying.

Alaska is set to receive $273 million per year for five years from the program, created as part of President Trump’s spending- and tax-cut law passed this summer.

Coach Geoff Wright is stunned by the resilience of his new skiers who have moved here from all over the world. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen this much concentrated can-do attitude,” he said.