For far too long, bipartisanship and compromises have been dirty words in American politics. It may be part of the reason why Congress’s approval rating recently fell to an all-time low while the percentage of independent voters is at an all-time high.

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Construction on North Franklin Street begins Wednesday, July 15. The project will make necessary upgrades to water, wastewater and storm drain utilities, and also replace the street’s curb, gutters, sidewalk, pedestrian structures, and pavement.

President Donald Trump will let the bipartisan housing bill approved by Congress become law without his signature, saying Friday that he was refusing to put his name on it because of the little progress made in passing a strict voter ID bill that he has been pushing.

Veto sidesteps a problem with timing and a potential conflict with a ballot measure that Alaskans are already voting on.

‘If they get into the trash, it’s our fault.’

Thursday is Alaska's 99th annual Flag Day, which celebrates the first raising of the Alaska territorial flag — later adopted as Alaska's state flag — on July 9, 1927.

For almost three decades the Southeast Alaska Food Bank has served people in Juneau, as well as other Southeast communities.

The owners of the Palmer Project, the advanced mineral exploration project in the Chilkat Valley, say they’re partnering with the State of Alaska on a new industrial port in Haines.

Nine years ago Bill Walker, in his last year as governor of Alaska, sat in the laborer’s union in Fairbanks and signed House Bill 331. It had been passed in the last three days of that year’s session. Walker accompanied his signature ceremony with a shockingly untrue mantra about jobs, oil company investment, and basically the standard mythology that accompanies any legislation that directs more Alaska public resources into resource development corporate hands.

Alaska Federation of Natives and a nonprofit organization have formed a new program bringing veterinary care and public health service to villages in need.