Alaska Politics
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Additional small businesses will be eligible for more than $155 million in pandemic aid from the State of Alaska Aug. 6 following wholesale changes to the AK CARES grant program, but whether or not... Read more -
A year ago this month, opponents of Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy launched a campaign to remove him from office. Furious over budget cuts and led by a multipartisan coalition that included the last... Read more -
This fall Alaskans will have the chance to overhaul the voting process for statewide elections with an initiative longtime Alaska officials in traditional two-party politics are dead-set against.... Read more -
Alaska’s finances are deteriorating so fast it’s even hard for the professionals tasked with doing so to keep up. Legislative Finance Director Pat Pitney told the House Finance Committee on April 22... Read more -
Two Alaska Senate Republican leaders have asked Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin what states can’t spend COVID-19 relief funds on after Gov. Mike Dunleavy said several of the items he vetoed from... Read more
National Politics
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Republicans have options to counteract the Obama administration’s move to pull Arctic waters from the federal offshore oil and gas lease plan, but they are far from immediate. -
Donald Trump’s election is generally viewed as a win for Alaska’s core resource industries, but whether or not it translates into better business in the Last Frontier will have much to do with his relationship with those on Capitol Hill.