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US denies request from 100 tribes | #alaska | #politics

The U.S. government rejected an emergency request from 100 tribes and communities in Western Alaska for a zero-bycatch limit on salmon, which would have effectively halted the nation’s largest Bering Sea pollock fishery. Bycatch is the unintentional capture of marine life by commercial fishermen. A directive from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and […]

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Biden administration cancels remaining oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic Refuge | #alaska | #politics

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — In an aggressive move that angered Republicans, the Biden administration canceled the seven remaining oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Wednesday, overturning sales held in the Trump administration’s waning days, and proposed stronger protections against development on vast swaths of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. The Department […]

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House passes bills to avert a government shutdown; package now heads to the Senate | #alaska | #politics

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaks about the spending package during a news conference on March 20. The House of Representatives went on to pass six appropriations bills funding the government on Friday. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The House of Representatives passed the remaining six appropriations bills for fiscal year 2024 on Friday morning, setting […]

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Alaska Senate advances public-sector pension plan to address recruitment and retention crisis | #alaska | #politics

Sitka Republican Sen. Bert Stedman, long a skeptic of reimplementing a public-sector pension, raised concerns that the pension plan was not cost neutral in Juneau on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024. (Sean Maguire / ADN) JUNEAU — The Alaska Senate on Wednesday advanced legislation to the House that would reestablish a public-sector pension in an effort […]

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Peltola far outpaces Republican challengers in Alaska’s US House campaign fundraising | #alaska | #politics

U.S. House candidates Nick Begich, Mary Peltola and Nancy Dahlstrom. (ADN and AP photos) Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola raised $1.7 million in the first quarter of 2024, far outpacing her two Republican opponents in fundraising as they vie for Alaska’s lone U.S. House seat. Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom raised just over $262,000, while […]

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Biden administration bars drilling on millions of acres in Alaska | #alaska | #politics

Zack Budryk, Rachel Frazin, and The Hill 4 days ago File – This July 8, 2004, photo provided by the United States Geological Survey shows Fish Creek through the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, managed by the Bureau of Land Management on Alaska’s North Slope. The Biden administration is restricting drilling on millions of acres of government-owned […]

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Alaska Republicans elect Carmela Warfield as new party chair | #alaska | #politics

Hillside Community Council president Carmela Warfield speaks with another attendee at the Alaska Republican Party convention on Friday, April 19, 2024 at the Captain Cook hotel in downtown Anchorage. (Loren Holmes / ADN) Carmela Warfield handily won a four-way race to become the new chair of the Alaska Republican Party. She replaces Ann Brown, who […]

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RFK Jr. Cozies Up to Alaskan Party He Called a ‘Treasonous Cabal’ | #alaska | #politics

Roy Rochlin/Getty Images Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was appalled — appalled! — to learn in 2008 that Sarah Palin, then-GOP nominee John McCain’s running mate, once had ties to the Alaskan Independence Party. In a HuffPost op-ed titled “Alaskan Independence Party: The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel,” Kennedy excoriated Palin for continuing to “‘pal around’ with […]

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Facing deadline, Alaska House advances bill to increase rural school internet speeds | #alaska | #politics

A student works on a laptop computer. (Bloomberg photo by Daniel Acker) JUNEAU — The Alaska House early Thursday advanced legislation to increase internet speeds at schools, primarily in rural Alaska. House Bill 193 would allow eligible schools to apply for grants to boost their download speeds to 100 megabits per second, a four-fold increase […]

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Alaska’s U.S. senators say pending decisions on Ambler road and NPR-A are illegal • Alaska Beacon | #alaska | #politics

Alaska’s U.S. senators and representatives of resource-extraction industries accused the Biden administration on Thursday of breaking federal laws by rejecting a controversial plan to build a road through the Brooks Range foothills and making final rules that strengthen environmental protections on federal land on the western side of the North Slope. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, […]