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 ...

Alaska has enacted a new law removing certain commercial fishing cooperative insurance agreements from state regulation, ...

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 leader of the House Republican minority caucus, Rep. Mia Costello, R-Anchorage, says it may be in the governor's interest ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Alaska Legislature passed a resolution Friday urging President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of North America’s tallest peak as Denali rather than change it to Mount ...

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 ...