Juneau Independent

In less than 15 years, two deaths have occurred in the state from abandoned babies.

The Alaska Senate on Tuesday advanced a constitutional amendment that would lower the threshold for veto overrides of spending decisions.

Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition and Tlingit and Haida discuss prevention and management.

Legal challenges expected as president seeks to federalize voter list, restrict states to sending ballots with tracking barcodes only to approved residents.

Some school district officials questioned if online competition would slight other educators, but board opted out of a resolution to disavow the results announced Monday.

In this era of intense partisan acrimony, Alaskans can be proud of our independent, apolitical judiciary. Our system of picking judges is admired nationally as a model of fairness. Now that impartiality is under attack.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs is facing a significant overhaul, including further staff cuts, according to a statement from a tribal leader during a congressional hearing on Mar. 18 about federal funding for Indigenous communities for fiscal year 2027.

Citing the First Amendment, a federal judge on Tuesday agreed to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing a presidential directive to end federal funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, two media entities that the White House has said are counterproductive to American priorities.

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against a law banning “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ+ kids in Colorado, one of about two dozen states that ban the discredited practice.

A U.S. government panel on Tuesday exempted oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from the Endangered Species Act after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said environmentalists' lawsuits against the industry threatened to hobble the nation's energy supply.

In the first days after Pam Bondi was appointed attorney general last year, the Department of Justice began shutting down pending criminal cases at a record pace.