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Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan shredded President Biden's energy orders stymieing Alaskan energy development, and championed plans to build a major new pipeline.
Donald Trump says he is a big fan of oil and gas. His actions may not be of great interest to the industry. And the results ...
Sen. Dan Sullivan co-sponsored the STOP Act that he said “focuses on stopping the killer drug fentanyl from coming from places like China and Mexico and killing our people.” Even though the bill ...
Trump’s tariffs, frozen or delayed energy projects, Medicaid cuts and federal layoffs pose the most significant risk Alaska has faced since the deep recession of the mid-1980s.
The state of Alaska has charged 10 Whittier residents with voter misconduct, asserting in a series of indictments filed April 3 that they voted illegally in a variety of recent elections because they ...
Cultural institutions all over Alaska, of all different sizes, are scrambling to figure out what a wave of cuts to federal grants means for local programs and staffing. Over the last few weeks, ...
It’s unclear what the move will mean for programs that run senior centers, provide rides and distribute meals.
Empire Archives is a series printed every Saturday featuring a short compilation of headline stories in the Juneau Empire from archived editions in 1985, 1995, and 2005. The stories include names, AP ...
An executive order blocking enforcement of climate change and other environmental policies by states and municipalities was ...
The House Finance Committee last week advanced its draft budget with a statutory PFD and a $1.9 billion deficit. The spending ...
Mass protests took place across the country and here in Alaska over the weekend. People voiced their frustrations with the ...
According to preliminary figures published by the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp., the fund’s assets declined from $81.7 billion on Tuesday to $79.7 billion at the end of the day on Friday.