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Alaska Legislature passes $1,000 per student funding boost, despite governor vowing to veto it
The Alaska Legislature on Friday passed a major increase to K-12 education funding, worth $1,000 in the state’s per-student ...
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Months after fish died near Alaska mine, regulators and mine owner still don’t know what killed them
In August, roughly 100 fish turned up dead in a creek below the large Kensington gold mine north of Juneau. Seven months later, state regulators and Coeur Mining, the multinational company that owns ...
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Alaska House votes to cut proposed dividend, but huge deficit remains unresolved
The vote, which surprised House Republicans, came with three of their members absent and dropped the proposed dividend to ...
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Alaska Senate prepares to vote on public education funding boost as Dunleavy vows veto
The education funding bill has been requested by public school advocates but faces an uphill struggle amid Republican ...
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Above the Yukon River, on Native land, Hilcorp is set to drill for oil this summer
An oil company will set up a specially designed rig to drill the first-ever deep wells in the Yukon Flats basin.
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In turnaround, median rental cost in Alaska is now down to the national median
Once the highest in the nation, rental costs in Alaska have risen more slowly in recent years, dropping the state to 20th ...
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On Alaska LNG Project, a lot of work must be done, but major progress has been made
The AGDC chair writes that while the success of Alaska LNG isn't guaranteed, neither can we dismiss or discount the progress ...
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Tongass timber provides good jobs, as well as products of the best quality
Trees from the Tongass provide the music of the world, writes Sarah Dahlstrom-Lehnert in a commentary for the Alaska Beacon.
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Alaska Sen. Murkowski calls on Trump administration to protect Ukrainians who fled war
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, is calling on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to allow Ukrainians with temporary ...
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A fifth of Americans are on Medicaid. Some of them have no idea.
Medicaid is a sprawling patchwork of programs that can confuse lawmakers and top health officials, not to mention the average ...
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UAA’s Native Student Services are vital and help Alaskans succeed
Kai Monture writes in a commentary that UAA's Native Student Services was a home away from home when moving from Yakutat to ...
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Federal employment and budget turmoil affecting monitoring of Alaska’s Barry Arm landslide
Trump administration cuts to staffing and budgets in federal agencies have slowed work for the partners monitoring the Barry ...