A freeze on state employee hiring and travel, as well as development of new regulations, was ordered by Gov. Mike Dunleavy on ...

Alaska superintendents are welcoming a school funding increase approved by the Legislature this session that they say is desperately needed, while urging Gov. Mike Dunleavy to keep that funding boost ...

The first session of the 34th Alaska State Legislature has ended. I am humbled by the opportunity to go to Juneau and work ...

Any serious effort to stabilize Alaska’s fiscal future must also focus on diversifying our economy and creating new ...

Before adjourning their regular session for the year, Alaska legislators passed 33 bills through both the House and Senate.

Alaska's lone U.S. House member on Thursday joined Republican colleagues voting in favor of an expansive tax and immigration package championed by President Donald Trump. The bill could result in ...

Introduced in the last hours of the 2025 session, the bill would expand the protections granted by the EPA, which barred ...

Alaska’s public schools may see the largest permanent funding boost in well over a decade, after the Alaska Legislature voted for the first time since 2002 to override a sitting governor’s veto. With ...

Lawmakers finished an operating budget and enacted new legal frameworks for childcare, interior design, and big game hunting.

Alaska’s 20 centers were in limbo, facing a $5.5 million shortfall after federal grants were ended or cut, as well as ...

More than half of U.S. states now have laws banning or regulating cellphones in schools, with more likely to follow.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of the latest education funding bill, House Bill 57, following his recent veto of House Bill 69, ...