President Donald Trump’s order calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department has complex implications. The Republican president has argued the federal office hasn’t improved …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon Alaska will remain one of two states without a cabinet-level Department of Agriculture, at least for the time being. On Wednesday, the Alaska Legislature voted …
By YERETH ROSEN Alaska Beacon Membership on the Alaska Board of Fisheries would be restructured to guarantee representation for the state’s different fishing sectors, under a bill pending in …
By CORINNE SMITH Alaska Beacon U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, encouraged members of the Alaska Legislature – and the public – to work together to get things done, despite major uncertainties …
By CORINNE SMITH Alaska Beacon Some fired federal employees received letters on Monday notifying them they were “reinstated” according to a federal court order, but on …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon The Alaska Senate is asking Congress to revive a stalled effort that would honor ethnic Hmong people who aided the United States during the …
The National Transportation Safety Board says a commuter plane that crashed on sea ice off Alaska and killed all 10 people on board was half a ton overweight for the known or possible weather …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon The Alaska House of Representatives is asking Congress to fix a problem with a program that pays money to rural school districts affected by the decline of the timber …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon The Alaska House of Representatives is backing the preservation of a multibillion-dollar federal aid program that subsidizes phone and …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon Neither an Alaska free-speech law nor the First Amendment protect a former North Slope Borough principal fired for making a derogatory version of the local …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon Federal fisheries managers did not mishandle trawl fishing rules amid Alaska’s ongoing salmon subsistence crisis, a federal judge in …
By YERETH ROSEN Alaska Beacon Alaska regulators have rejected a permit application for a controversial gold-dredging project near Nome after determining that the plan is riddled with …
By CORRINE SMITH Alaska Beacon The Alaska House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that is aimed at adding $275 million to fund public schools starting this summer. The House spent long …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon The state of Alaska is still facing a significant budget deficit despite a revised state revenue forecast published Wednesday by the Alaska Department of …
By YERETH ROSEN Alaska Beacon Alaska regulators have ordered an inactive oil company to pay more than $6 million in fines for failing to properly close and plug North Slope oil wells that it left …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon Jeremy Cubas, a former policy adviser to Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy, has filed a libel lawsuit against two reporters and three news organizations, according to an …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon An Anchorage Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging the proposed trans-Alaska natural gas pipeline as incompatible with the state …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon A federal judge in Juneau has sentenced a Southeast Alaska fisher to six months in federal prison after pleading guilty last year to one count of misreporting a …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon A bill intended to fix potholes in a popular road within Chugach State Park has also exposed rocky relationships between two leaders of the Alaska State …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon A Big Lake Republican has reintroduced a bill that would require the state of Alaska to sell the Alaska Railroad. Rep. Kevin McCabe, R-Big Lake, introduced House …