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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

Under Alaska law, adoption ends the legal relationship between children and birth families — including siblings. Foster youth have called for changes to the law to preserve contact.

The Alaska senator pointed out nominee had cast doubt on science-based vaccine schedules.

Alaska Legal Services Corporation is the state’s largest provider of free legal help for domestic violence survivors, but it has faced funding challenges.

Lawyers for the Trump administration are defending a Biden-era decision to veto the controversial Pebble project in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region.

Clergy, immigration attorneys and advocates raised concerns about increased ICE operations in Alaska, particularly the detention of minors.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is placing an early and aggressive bet on Alaska: a $1 million investment to build out the party's on-the-ground infrastructure, Axios has learned.

However, the House failed to pass a supermajority vote to pay for the budget bill from the state’s savings account. The bill now moves to be debated in the Senate.

Tribal government in Kipnuk, one of the communities hardest hit by October’s storm, is exploring sentiment and options for relocation to safer ground The village of Kipnuk, largely submerged by the remnants of Typhoon Halong, is seen from the air on Oct. 12, 2025. Alaska Air National Guard rescue personnel conducted search and rescue operations there, and the Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management has worked with the Alaska Organized Militia and the U.S

Pending Department of the Interior order is set to cede 2.1 million BLM-managed acres near the Dalton Highway to state control and possible mining, road building and other development.

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