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Yearly Archives: 2022

Grand jury investigations into OCS continue to be hijacked

By DAVID IGNELL In early 2017, Rep. Tammie Wilson (R-North Pole) accused the Alaska Attorney General’s Office of “hijacking” her requested grand jury investigation into...

Anchorage Press self-cancels print edition, goes digital only, as parent company downsizes

The leftist Anchorage Press, which has provided alternative news and facts on a weekly basis for decades, has quit publication of its newsprint edition...

Oath Keepers helped officers at Capitol, witness says in trial over Rep. David Eastman’s membership in group

The trial determining whether Rep. David Eastman's membership in Oath Keepers is a violation of the Alaska Constitution closed out the week with a...

Energy Dept. to start refilling Strategic Petroleum Reserve

The Energy Department will start buying oil to refill the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve at a price below $96 per barrel, the department announced...

John Boyle is new commissioner of DNR

Gov. Mike Dunleavy today appointed John Boyle to serve as Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources. He replaces acting Commissioner Akis Gialopsos. “Commissioner...

House Republicans will investigate origins of Covid-19

By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE House Republicans have made it clear they plan to use their newfound majority to investigate the origins of...

Sullivan: Here come funds for Nome deep port

The National Defense Authorization Act has key victories for Alaska strategic infrastructure, the result of work by Sen. Dan Sullivan. Among those victories is...

Senate passes defense spending bill ending Pentagon’s vaccine mandate; Sullivan and Murkowski duck issue

The $858 billion in national defense spending passed by the Senate on Thursday also rolled back the U.S. military’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate. Thirteen Republican senators...

New source of revenue for Alaska: Carbon credits

In all the decades that Alaska sold timber, it only received a few tens of million of dollars in revenues. But in the Clinton...

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