As odd as it may seem given the climate, the food truck scene is Alaska is getting larger and more diverse each year. However, when it comes to fan fa...

By now, we have all heard the outcries from the K12 public education establishment, including district superintendents, the teachers unions, and the f...

Commissioner Dean Williams is reallocating resources within the department to begin the state’s first Professional Conduct Unit (PCU) to follow up on ...

As routine as annual dipnetting and moose hunting seasons, this is the season for rehashing Alaska’s oil taxes. It’s becoming a ritual, co...

The Permanent Fund earnings can be tapped with a majority vote, but that majority has always been hard to come by because of the invisible political f...

British Columbia’s downstream neighbours in Alaska have long been concerned about mining pollution flowing across the border. “We write to express our...

Baked Alaska describes the single as “a special moment in history,” and based on the approval it’s received from fans, he is not wrong. The very 1990s...

An effort to revive a stalled education bill that limits who can teach sex education in public schools faltered in the Alaska House on Wednesday.  It ...

First Lady Donna Walker announced today the recipients of the 2016 First Lady’s Volunteer of the Year Awards. More than 90 Alaskans from around the st...

Lawmakers are considering some of the most wide-ranging changes in the history of Alaska finances this year. That’s why the leaders of the House Finan...

As a U.S. Army general, I was in charge of recruiting for the entire Army during the “Be All You Can Be” era. After retiring from military...

House Republican leader Craig Johnson, introduced an entirely new bill to eliminate state workers’ annual and biennial pay increases that a Democratic...

“I’m trying not to explode,” said Vince Beltrami, the president of the Alaska AFL-CIO, the state’s largest labor group, after he reviewed the legislat...

Curtis Thayer, the president of the state chamber of commerce and administration commissioner under former GOP Gov. Sean Parnell, testified before the...

Clem Tillion: It is not that I want to face all these tax increases, but the day the Alaska Legislature started spending instead of investing oil bonu...

Walker says he wants legislators to keep up the momentum they showed in clearing a backlog of bills as they moved into an extended session Monday wher...

The big holdup is the bill that would change taxes and tax credits for the oil and gas industry. The Republican-led House majority caucus has been una...

Nye has not published a single paper in a peer-reviewed journal of any kind; his chief scientific exploit appears to be tinkering with sundials and ma...

Committed to transparency and to fostering a more educated, involved, and successful Alaska, the time for the fiscal conversation is now. Current gove...

Public television would lose its state funding in a budget proposal adopted by the Legislature’s budget conference committee Friday. The committee rem...

The Legislature didn’t finish its work in time for the scheduled end of the session Sunday, but it became clear that the largest stumbling block is ho...

Former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin argued Thursday that Bill Nye is not actually a scientist.”Bill...

Gov. Bill Walker said Thursday that he will veto a purchase of the Legislature’s office building in Anchorage if lawmakers propose it, a threat that o...

University of Alaska spokeswoman Robbie Graham said the university was disappointed with the [legislature’s] decision and that it will force the...

The governor on Thursday evening gave an address on the state of the budget on Channel 2 News, promoting his fiscal plan, which calls for spending red...

Alaska is near the bottom of a watchdog group’s ranking of transparency in government spending, according to an annual U.S. Public Interest Rese...

Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz wants to use leftover money from last year’s budget by increasing spending on services for homeless people, according ...

The Legislature is trying to close the four billion dollar budget deficit this week. But a new report says the burden of closing the gap will fall too...

Senate Bill 89, which would require parents to opt their children into sex education lessons, was introduced by Sen. Mike Dunleavy and had narrowly pa...

The Alaska Senate Finance Committee has unveiled its plan to fill much of the state’s $4.1 billion annual deficit using the Alaska Permanent Fund. The...

A group of hunters has set its sights on unseating Board of Game Vice Chair Nate Turner, who is up for confirmation by the state legislature on Friday...

In these waning days of the session, a controversial bill to allow guns on university campuses is moving quickly, while a non-controversial, bipartisa...

Governor Bill Walker today named Walt Monegan the new Commissioner for the Department of Public Safety. Mr. Monegan will replace current DPS Commissio...