Juneau Independent

Draft contains provision that would apply the state’s corporate income tax to privately-owned oil and gas companies, but lawmakers say negotiations on the provision and others will continue.

More Alaskans are set to have access to free legal aid as Alaska’s largest provider of legal assistance for civil cases gets a boost in short and longer term funding from the state and the Rasmuson Foundation.

A Louisiana shipbuilder is proposing to build a replacement for one of the workhorse vessels in the Alaska state ferry fleet.

Alaska Children’s Trust is leading a statewide collaborative effort to reduce risks, set safety protocols and educate communities to prevent harm

Homer lawmaker’s attempt to dismiss complaints nixed Friday by the Select Committee on Legislative Ethics.

The bills had bipartisan support and would have created an invasive species council to coordinate protections and banned restaurant use of polystyrene containers.

Official minimum wage will rise by $1 to $14 an hour, but employers have already had to beat that rate to attract workers, a state economist says.

Candidates weigh in on how they'd use AI in their administration, as well as safeguards they'd adopt.

The legislation is among nine bills that Gov. Mike Dunleavy permitted to become law without his signature on Monday.

Advocates with the charter group said the school is now unlikely to open in August, but continue to press the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District in court.

The huge sea stars, once plentiful in waters from Mexico to Alaska, were nearly wiped out by a bacteria-caused wasting disease, and listing is overdue, the lawsuit says.

A cruise ship arrived at a dock in Seward, Alaska, with a dead endangered fin whale "on top of the ship’s bulbous bow," the National Marine Fisheries Service said June 21.