Monthly Archives: May, 2019

By WIN GRUENING SENIOR CONTRIBUTOR As deliberations on Alaska’s budget approach the Legislature’s constitutionally mandated deadline — the session’s 121st day — the struggle to maintain...

As reported in Must Read Alaska last week, Sen. Tom Begich's wife and the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization she leads are suing the Dunleavy Administration over...

By DONN LISTON CONTRIBUTOR While many residents of the Railbelt from Eagle River to Eklutna were enjoying a cold one in their taxed-to-the-max Municipality of Anchorage...

Anchorage is gaining on the record-setting homicide year of 2017. After a slight reprieve in violent deaths in 2018, the numbers are on the...

After the House vote on the Senate budget today, and when the Senate appoints its members to the conference committee on Monday, the "24-hour...

By ART CHANCE SENIOR CONTRIBUTOR One of my very earliest memories is sitting on my grandfather’s shoulders watching the departure of a Wadley Southern steam locomotive...

SYMBOLIC VOTE OVER PERMANENT FUND DIVIDEND AMOUNT CAUSES RIFT In a move that surprised some and delighted others, Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux, a nominal Republican from...

BIG WIN FOR ENVIRONMENTAL NGO INDUSTRY The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Alaska District has bowed to pressure from Alaska's senior Sen. Lisa Murkowski...

Shirley Marquardt, appointed by Gov. Bill Walker as executive director of the Alaska Marine Highway System, has been sent home. Tuesday was her last...

In celebration of the Alaska Marine Highway's first Alaska Class ferry revenue voyage, the ferry system will hold an open house in Juneau on...