The Alaska Senate on Tuesday approved an austere operating budget for the next fiscal year with a $1,000 Permanent Fund dividend. Lawmakers this year have grappled with a substantial deficit and a ...

Legislators on Tuesday voted to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy's veto of a $180 million increase to the state's $1.2 billion education budget. The vote means that Alaska's education funding formula will ...

This is a developing story. In what the Alaska Legislature’s longest-serving member called the “smoothest ending in 20 years” the Senate adjourned for the year at 1:20 p.m. Tuesday followed by the ...

The Alaska Legislature adjourned its regular session on Tuesday, one day earlier than expected, after passing a “maintenance ...

Two United States F-16 fighter jets recently made an emargency landing in the remote city of St. Paul, located in the Bering ...

HB 57 prescribes an increase to the public school funding formula, but that formula is subject to appropriations in the ...

Alaska lawmakers successfully override Governor Dunleavy’s veto of a $180 million increase to education funding, marking the first permanent raise to the Base Student Allocation since 2017.

Salmon season has begun in Anchorage, with the first king caught at Ship Creek. Angler Sasha Merkushev earned prizes, and ...