Alaska Politics
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Senate Republican leaders have ultimately agreed to renew the state’s COVID-19 disaster declaration with an option for the administration to scale it back to only the targeted powers and... Read more
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Lawmakers held relatively few hearings around the Easter weekend and instead appear to have manufactured another impasse over time-sensitive legislation that a majority of them feel in some form is... Read more
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The standoff over the governor’s pandemic authorities that has consumed much of the Legislature’s time in recent weeks is slowly nearing resolution. The Senate Finance Committee took two days of... Read more -
House and Senate leaders have continued on divergent paths to address gaps left in the state’s pandemic response when the official public health emergency declaration expired last month. The House... Read more
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Update: Alaska State Hospital and Nursing Home Association CEO Jared Kosin wrote to the Journal via email that the organization recieved a letter from federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid... 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.