Juneau Independent

Candidates share what they'd propose for a per-student schools budget, and dish about their whips.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted 219-211 on Wednesday to end President Donald Trump’s national emergency at the Canadian border and end tariffs on Canadian imports.

Minority House Republicans raised legal concerns, but the extension passed anyway and advanced out of the Capitol.

In annual legislative address, Chief Justice Susan Carney said court-ordered limits on delays to prevent cases from dragging on for years are working, but the state has more to do.

Alaska public school students would be required to learn hands-only CPR under a proposal advancing through the state legislature.

Lawmakers with the bipartisan majority caucus have expressed support for more funding for schools, but point to Gov. Dunleavy’s history of vetoes as a major roadblock.

Fifteen Democratic-led states have dropped a six-year-old lawsuit challenging the legality of a federal plan that allowed oil and gas drilling in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.

The families of four of the 10 people who died in the February 2025 crash of a Bering Air flight near Nome have filed three separate wrongful death lawsuits against the airline, alleging its actions are to blame for the crash.

The University of Alaska may soon be legally required to provide itemized bills to students and give them more notice of fee increases.

A federal oil and gas lease sale in Alaska that was to have been held in early March has now been postponed for nine days because of public notice mistakes.

The Alaska Legislature is expected to declare this week that parts of Western Alaska are still in a state of disaster following a major storm in October.

In a public notice last week, the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities said it is willing to give away seven spans of the Gerstle River Bridge near Delta Junction, built in World War II for the Alaska Highway.