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If you pay for electricity or heat your home with natural gas in Southcentral Alaska, it’s going to get...
Two years after introducing the concept, Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson's proposal for a mass shelter and navigation center combination at Tudor and Elmore continues to struggle with lack of planning, inadequate funding and permitting issues.
At a work session Friday,...
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The "top-down” state list of highway projects from the Dunleavy administration violates federal law and regulation because the state failed to consult with long-established planning authorities...
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The State Transportation Improvement Plan, known throughout the bureaucratic realm as the STIP, is not supposed to be a top-down affair. Federal law requires that the state...
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A federal judge Monday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the state of Alaska and its economic development agency that...
When Rep. Josiah Patkotak (I - HD40 - Arctic Slope) filed his letter of intent to run for mayor of the North Slope Borough, he likely put control of the Alaska State House in play.
Patkotak began caucusing with Republicans...
While Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s decision to cut $87.5 million of the $175 million one-time education funding the legislature approved attracted significant attention and headlines, it was just one of 46 line-item vetoes totaling $200 million. This is the final...
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Last week Sen. Dan Sullivan whined in print that if the Democrats in the Senate really think having no leader of the U.S. Marine Corps for the first time in 164 years is a...
For two years, Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson watched as some of his most ardent supporters vacated the eighth floor of City Hall. But there's a confidante who refuses to quit him, and whom Bronson cannot quit either.
Larry Baker, the...
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The “prefeasibility study” of the graphite project 37 miles north of Nome says it would have an internal rate of return of 26 percent before taxes, 22 percent after taxes and a net...