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The leader of the House Republican minority caucus, Rep. Mia Costello, R-Anchorage, says it may be in the governor's interest ...
Alaska has enacted a new law removing certain commercial fishing cooperative insurance agreements from state regulation, ...
House Bill 35, passed by the Legislature, would change that by instituting rules for tablet use. The bill was encouraged as a means of rehabilitation and education for people in Alaska’s prisons ...
Many of Alaska’s local legislative races are decided by small margins. In 2018, Bart LeBon defeated Kathryn Dodge by one vote . In 2020, Liz Snyder defeated Lance Pruitt for an Anchorage state ...
JUNEAU — The Alaska Legislature’s attorneys on Tuesday suggested that public homeschool programs can continue operating constitutionally with a relatively simple change in state law. Earlier ...
The Alaska Legislature on Friday passed a major increase to K-12 education funding, worth $1,000 in the state’s per-student funding formula. Gov. Mike Dunleavy has indicated he will veto the ...
The Alaska Legislature set a record on Thursday for the number of days that it’s been in session in a year — 212. But that doesn’t mean lawmakers have been in the Capitol lately. There’s ...
Alaska lawmakers head to Juneau August 2 for a special session. With a potential override of Gov. Dunleavy’s education veto ...
The Equal Pay and Living Wage Act (the Act), currently before the Alaska Legislature as Alaska Senate Bill 16, seeks several significant changes to Alaska’s minimum wage, pay equity and ...
The Alaska Legislature passed Senate Bill 9 in 2022 after a decade of attempts to modernize ... Dec. 27—Major changes to Alaska's alcohol industry will come into effect Monday, ...
House Bill 35, passed by the Legislature, would change that by instituting rules for tablet use. The bill was encouraged as a means of rehabilitation and education for people in Alaska’s prisons ...