Sen. Lisa Murkowski understands the imperative of speaking truth to power right now. “I am sick to my stomach as the administration appears to be walking away from our allies and embracing Putin,” she wrote on X after last Friday’s disastrous White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Empire Archives is a series printed every Saturday featuring a short compilation of headline stories in the Juneau Empire from archived editions in 1985, 1995 and 2005. They include names, AP style and other content of their eras.

As the Trump administration freezes spending and hollows out federal offices, just identifying the extent of the impact is difficult, so lawmakers in Juneau and Washington D.C. are resorting to unusual means.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski has spoken out against the Trump administration's efforts to gut the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) by slashing jobs and foreign contracts, emphasizing the importance of humanitarian assistance from the United States.

A bill providing temporary guest status to Ukrainians and immediate family members already in the U.S. is being co-sponsored by U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), the first Republican to join Democratic senators backing the proposal.

One of the few remaining Republicans in Congress to openly clash with President Donald Trump has a book out this summer. Sen.

An Oval Office confrontation where President Donald Trump shouted at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and threw him out of the White House on Friday has left U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski “sick to my stomach” about concerns Trump is openly “walking away from our allies,” she stated in a social media post Saturday.

The Alaska Senate voted 19-0 on Monday to declare March as Women’s History Month in Alaska, as reported by James Brooks with Alaska Beacon.

In Juneau and Washington D.C., legislators try to keep federal chaos at bay, one phone call and story at a time.