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Courts

Free legal aid services in Alaska get a boost from state and foundation funding

Corinne Smith, Alaska Beacon - 0
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. 
News

Confidential document guided Alaska senators working on natural gas pipeline tax break

James Brooks, Alaska Beacon - 0
A secret agreement provides the most detailed insight yet into one of the world’s largest prospective natural gas projects.
Elections

‘You don’t need any special legal training to smell a rat.’ Legislators question Dan J. Sullivan’s removal from the ballot

Matt Acuña Buxton - 0
At Monday's joint hearing of the House State Affairs and Judiciary committees on the Division of Elections' decision to block a Petersburg man named Dan J. Sullivan from running against U.S. Sen. Dan S. Sullivan, it was pretty clear that many Republicans had already accepted the narrative as true and the response warranted. 
Economy

AKLNG bill advances out of the House, highlighting state’s geographic divide

Matt Acuña Buxton - 0
The AKLNG subsidy bill advanced out of the House on Friday on a 35 to 4 vote.
Economy

AKLNG bill advances without the option for local governments to cut their own deals

Matt Acuña Buxton - 0
With a little more than a week remaining in Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy's special session, the gasline subsidy bill is nearing a vote in the House.
Commentary

AKLNG’s proposed gas contract highlights the project’s underlying challenge: There just aren’t that many Alaskans

Matt Acuña Buxton - 0
The AKLNG special session continued this week, giving more clarity on what will be an undeniably difficult project, no matter the subsidy lawmakers ultimately approve.
Commentary

Risk-averse legislators dismiss the AKLNG ‘razzle dazzle’ to drill down on the giga-project’s details

Matt Acuña Buxton - 0
The biggest takeaway from the first full week of hearings on Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s proposed multi-billion-dollar, multi-decade subsidy for the natural gas pipeline project is that the state sure is lucky that lawmakers’ efforts to rush the bill through didn’t pan out.
Opinion

Dunleavy’s latest vetoes are a reminder that a lot will have to wait for a new governor

Matt Acuña Buxton - 0
Alaska’s 2026 regular legislative session came to a largely smooth ending last week.
Opinion

The invisible weight of the room: Grief, governance and the labor of belonging

Victoria Petersen - 0
I stepped into the Alaska State Capitol this January in a season of quiet transformation.
Commentary

Following bruising last-minute push for AKLNG subsidy, legislators slow it down for the special session

Matt Acuña Buxton - 0
Lawmakers adjourned the regular session on Wednesday in a largely uneventful final day, at least compared to the mayhem of Monday's attempt to force through a multibillion-dollar subsidy in the form of state and local tax cuts.
Health

Alaska Republicans commandeer anti-smoking bill to legalize ‘super cool’ cigar lounges

Matt Acuña Buxton - 0
A measure aimed at curbing youth smoking and vaping will now also legalize what one Republican insisted are “super popular, super cool” cigar lounges.
Labor

Long-running fight for public-sector pensions ends, for now, with failed veto override

Matt Acuña Buxton - 0
The 33-27 vote fell short of the 40 votes needed to enact House Bill 78, which would have given public-sector employees the option to opt into a pension system.
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