The Trump administration has issued final rules on how states should ensure that millions of Medicaid enrollees prove they’re working or completing other activities, such as job training, volunteering, or being enrolled in an educational program. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the rules on June 1. That deadline was set last year […]
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The Alaska House of Representatives is planning to vote as soon as Friday morning on a proposal to cut state taxes in order to encourage construction of the proposed trans-Alaska natural gas pipeline. On Wednesday, the House Finance Committee voted unanimously to advance a bill that would effectively cut taxes on the project by about […]
Abortion-rights advocates filed a lawsuit in Alaska Superior Court on Thursday to overturn a state ban on telehealth for abortion services. The lawsuit was filed in Anchorage by Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaiʻi, Alaska, Indiana and Kentucky. It targets an element of state law that requires patients receiving abortion services to be treated on-site in […]
A top Alaska elections official has threatened to disqualify from the August primary a U.S. Senate candidate who shares the same name and party affiliation as incumbent Republican Dan Sullivan. …
Despite the Trump administration’s relentless effort to remove the American public from our right and duty to protect our public lands, the nation continues to speak out against the unspoiled Arctic National Wildlife Refuge being carved up and auctioned off for oil and gas lease sales — the latest of which happened on June 5. […]
Josu Jon Imaz, a former member of European Parliament, runs Spain’s largest oil company. Recently, though, his focus has drifted thousands of miles from Madrid, to the far north. Imaz’s company, Repsol, is one of several oil and gas businesses racing to drill in Alaska’s Arctic — where, after a decades-long decline in production, the […]
Alaska school districts that have grown to rely on international teacher hires are likely to do without them this year, even after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s fee hikes for highly skilled worker visas on Monday. The Trump administration raised the fee from $5,000 to $100,000 last September, which put Alaska school districts’ […]
The Alaska lieutenant governor’s office, which oversees state elections, announced an investigation into the validity of a U.S. Senate candidate from Petersburg following complaints from Alaska’s incumbent senator with the same name, Dan Sullivan. Dan J. Sullivan of Petersburg formally responded to the state’s challenge on Wednesday, calling it an affront to his rights. He […]
Alaska lawmakers, meeting in a special session, advanced a bill intended to spur construction of a long-desired pipeline carrying natural gas from the North Slope to markets. The legislature’s House Finance Committee approved the bill, House Bill 381, which would largely eliminate state and municipal property taxes on project-related infrastructure, replacing those revenues with money […]
When ex-Typhoon Halong flooded the Western Alaska village of Kipnuk last fall, a mass evacuation followed. Homes were displaced, with some 90% of the village’s structures destroyed, according to Gov. Mike Dunleavy. Most people made the difficult decision to leave the village. In the end, 19 people stayed behind, determined to see Kipnuk rebuilt — a […]
In my office hangs an old black-and-white USGS geothermal map of Alaska from the 1980s. Most of the map is nearly blank — white space with just a few major rivers and roads transecting the landscape. The only color delineates Alaska’s known geothermal systems and their relative importance for future development: green for low to […]
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit by former Alaska state Sen. Lora Reinbold, R-Eagle River, against Alaska Airlines. Alaska Airlines banned Reinbold in 2021 for refusing to follow its masking policies during the COVID-19 pandemic emergency. She sued the airline in […]
I have heard talk of a North Slope gas pipeline since my childhood. Growing up in Fairbanks around adults who built the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, I saw how it gave them financial security, so I planned on joining Laborers’ Local 942 to be part of the gas line construction. I became a camp tradesman and […]
Chris Andrews is a wildlife inspector for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He and his team are in charge of intercepting trafficked wildlife. They enforce international conservation treaties that …
When the “three lucky Swedes” discovered gold at Anvil Creek in the Bering Strait region in September of 1898, they touched off a frenzy that transformed a once-peaceful corner of Alaska. “Imagine a long stretch of sandy beach, piled high & in confusion with freight of all descriptions & tents men unloading barges & working […]
Alaska U.S. Senate candidate Dan Sullivan acknowledges that sharing a name and party affiliation with the incumbent Republican gives him “an instant megaphone.” But Sullivan says his campaign …
Alaska dropped seven places to rank 47th in the nation in overall child well-being, according to a nationally recognized survey by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Advocates say the decline is troubling and reflects years of declining investment in Alaska children and families. The scoring system is part of Kids Count data book, an analysis […]
Our country has gone through several convulsions against immigrants, none having left a legacy of honor and some having made their imprint on Alaska’s own history: enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Act and the internment of Japanese and Japanese-Americans immediately come to mind. The Trump Administration is unabashedly adding itself to this legacy. Future generations […]
The Trump administration’s push to expand oil and gas development in Alaska faces a new test Friday. That's when the latest lease sale is set for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. A coalition of …