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State budget fight moves to House floor
Rep. Dan Saddler, R-Eagle River, called it a “reconnaissance by fire.” If so, it ran into some thick…
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Panel begins review of Alaska legislative allowance
JUNEAU — The daily allowance that Alaska lawmakers can claim has become part of the discussion of how…
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Parish offers free pizza, answers
Rep. Justin Parish, D-Juneau, will host a “Pizza with Parish” event from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday…
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Midway through session, Alaska lawmakers looking for fiscal fix
JUNEAU — Alaska legislative leaders say they are committed to taking major steps to address the state’s multibillion-dollar…
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Alaska Senate leader: Passing a Permanent Fund bill critical
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The majority leader of the Alaska Senate says he will consider this session a…
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Legislature continues digging in to oil tax changes
ANCHORAGE — The House Resources Committee is in its second consecutive year of scrutinizing the state’s oil tax system…
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Senate’s budget fix highlights list of Legislature’s new bills
Lawmakers last week put what are likely the last big pieces of this year’s budget fix on their…
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Legislature officially asks to drill Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
The Alaska House’s representative for the North Slope welcomed U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan to the Capitol with a…
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In speech, Sullivan focuses on jobs but neglects Trump, immigration, health care
In 31 minutes, Sen. Dan Sullivan’s annual address to the Alaska Legislature contained no mentions of the Affordable…
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Senate Majority unveils plan including spending cap, big cuts and Permanent Fund spending to fix the budget
The leaders of the Alaska Senate have unveiled a proposal to fill Alaska’s $2.7 billion budget gap with…
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Senate passes ANWR drilling resolution, which faces final concurrence vote in the House
The Alaska Senate agrees with the House: Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is good for the…
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Fuel tax hike might be stretched to 2019
A proposed hike in the state’s gasoline taxes might not reach full potential until 2019, according to a…
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Alaska House votes on National Guard, ballot selfies
The Alaska House of Representatives has approved a bill that would allow National Guardsmen to return to their…
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Waste not: Ferries’ flushing bill wins Senate support, 16-2
The Alaska Senate voted 16-2 Friday to cut a break in the state’s environmental regulations for small cruise…
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Aimed at PACs, lawmaker’s bill may hit political rival
Anchorage Republican Sen. Kevin Meyer has a nightmare. It involves credit card machines. “What we don’t want is…
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Capitol Decode: Pace of new legislation is much faster than it was in 2015
Lawmakers are a quarter of the way through the constitutionally limited 121-day first session of the 30th Legislature,…
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Cash didn’t matter: New financials show magnitude of Parish’s win over Muñoz
Juneau apparently likes a winner. According to records released Wednesday by the Alaska Public Offices commission, Rep. Justin…
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Senator proposes fix for the budget without taxes – but with big cuts
Sen. Mike Dunleavy, R-Wasilla, believes he’s found a way Alaska can erase its multibillion-dollar deficit and guarantee big…
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Gov. Walker plans to freeze nonunion state employees’ pay for two years
Gov. Bill Walker is preparing to propose a bill that would freeze the pay of nonunion employees at…
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Alcohol legislation poised for big push
Sen. Peter Micciche, R-Soldotna, is expected to be the key figure this year as long-awaited reforms to Alaska’s…