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Oil & Gas

U.S. Rep. Nick Begich told legislators to get on board with the LNG pipeline project. They’ve got questions.

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Alaska U.S. Republican Rep. Nick Begich’s annual address to the Alaska Legislature this week included an unusually direct order to legislators.
Commentary

Spiking prices are a reminder Alaska really needs to get off the oil roller coaster

Matt Acuña Buxton - 0
This commentary was originally published in AK Memo. After a muted initial reaction to Trump kicking off a war with Iran, oil prices soared to...
Politics

As legislators raise alarm over feds getting private voter information, Dunleavy officials say they’d do it again

Matt Acuña Buxton - 0
The U.S. Department of Justice was given unprecedented access to Alaskan voters’ private information.
Commentary

The secret life of Sen. Dan Sullivan

Victoria Petersen - 0
Sen. Dan Sullivan doesn’t like being portrayed as a weak-kneed politician.
News

Online age verification could be coming to Alaska, piggybacking on anti-CSAM bill

Matt Acuña Buxton - 0
But the bill does a whole lot more than that in the name of childrens’ safety.
Federal Government

The health ‘transformation’ fund touted by Republicans isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

Matt Acuña Buxton - 0
At his annual address to lawmakers last week, Sullivan touted the Rural Health Transformation Fund as a landmark achievement.
News

‘Are we about to see more children detained?’ Legislators probe ICE detention and deportation of Soldotna kindergartener

Matt Acuña Buxton - 0
Legislators this week are trying to get answers on ICE’s shocking arrest and deportation of a 5-year-old kindergartener, his mother and two siblings.
News

Arrested Alaska Republican legislative staffer was a ‘compulsive child exploitation offender,’ feds warn, as they look for more victims

Matt Acuña Buxton - 0
There are few things in Alaska politics that can be truly shocking, but the arrest Friday of now-former legislative staffer Craig Scott Valdez for heinous sex crimes against children is one of them.
Commentary

Sullivan voted to cut Medicaid by $1 trillion

Dermot Cole - 0
“So I think you were the guy,” an irritated Sen. Dan Sullivan said to Sen. Forrest Dunbar Wednesday, “that asked me last year about Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security.”
News

Legislators take another shot to help state’s ailing boarding school despite Dunleavy’s opposition

Matt Acuña Buxton - 0
The Senate gave another shot at legislation aimed at smoothing out the maintenance needs at the state-run boarding school, Mount Edgecumbe High School.
Commentary

Sullivan takes umbrage when Dunbar asks if he would ever say no to Trump

Dermot Cole - 0
Sen. Forrest Dunbar again asked Sen. Dan Sullivan a good question, one of the six questions allowed before the legislative discussion was cut off.
Politics

Sullivan says ICE has his ‘full support’ after Soldotna kindergartener and family snatched by officers

Matt Acuña Buxton - 0
Alaska U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan told legislators that he wasn't aware that ICE officers this week detained a 5-year-old Soldotna kindergartener, two teenage siblings...
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