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Lower court dismissed the case, and the Alaska Supreme Court has already ruled on a similar issue, but plaintiffs are trying again.

A seven-year-old dispute over union dues could reset boundaries between Alaska’s branches of government.

Legislators say the increase would offset the budget deficits of the state’s five biggest school districts, and help fend off school closures, cutting teachers and growing class sizes.

Federal sale, one in a series mandated by the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act,’ indicates a lack of industry interest in Cook Inlet, as did a concurrent state lease sale that drew only one bid.

Fewer Alaska babies are being born and more Alaskans are dying, causing the state’s natural population increase margin to shrink substantially over the past decade, according to state demographers.

Rural Alaska districts are especially reliant on international teachers to keep instructors in their classrooms Students attend class in a Kuspuk School District elementary school (Photo provided by the Kuspuk School District) By Corinne Smith Alaska Beacon Some Alaska school districts say they can’t afford to hire and retain international teachers after the Trump administration hiked fees for highly skilled worker visas. Alaska school districts have increasingly hired inter

Here’s what’s happening in the Alaska Capitol and elsewhere across the state.

House Bill 184 by Rep. Andi Story attempts to address Alaska’s severe housing shortage by allowing AIDEA to invest in workforce housing with 5 or more units.

As President Donald Trump presses for a takeover of Greenland, some Alaska state lawmakers are trying to send a different message about state cooperation with the Arctic island.

Documentary series ‘Lost Women of Alaska’ now airing on HBO examines the crisis through the investigation of an Anchorage serial killer and how local police handled the case.

Alaska lawmakers eulogized their former colleague, Craig Johnson, a longtime Republican Representative for Anchorage, who died Friday at the age of 72.

A brown bear wades in the water on July 18, 2012, at the Dog Salmon River on the Alaska Peninsula. A man who was hunting on the Alaska Peninsula in 2024 contracted "seal finger," an infection associated with seals, from a brown bear. (Lisa Hupp / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) By Yereth Rosen Alaska Beacon When a 29-year-old Anchorage man returned from a bear hunt on the Alaska Peninsula in September of 2024, he had a persistent and painful finger infection that defied easy