Click Bishop has announced plans to run for a state Senate seat in Fairbanks, less than two months after retiring as Alaska's labor commissioner.
Cost of special session of Legislature more than $400,000
Last month's 13-day special legislative session cost at least $403,790.
Explicit ban on texting while driving takes effect Friday
Take your fingers off the phone's keypad and put them back on the wheel. Alaska's new law explicitly banning texting while driving goes into effect Friday after Gov. Parnell signed the bill into law Thursday.
Redistricting board seeks to use original plan for elections
The Alaska Redistricting Board on Thursday asked the state Supreme Court to allow for this year's elections to be conducted under a legislative map that sparked a legal battle.
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Alaska lawmakers question Point Thomson settlement
Signs of skepticism emerged Friday over the deal applauded by the Parnell administration last month to resolve long-running litigation over the Exxon Mobil-operated Point Thomson oil and gas field.
Committee to hire experts to advise on energy
Alaska's Senate Finance Committee plans to hire experts to advise lawmakers on ways to address high energy costs.
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Alaska Senate ends special session
A day after Gov. Sean Parnell abruptly yanked an oil tax bill from the Legislature's special session agenda, the Senate labeled the action "sudden, unprecedented and unauthorized" and, armed with a legal opinion from the Legislature's attorney, adjourned just as quickly.
Rep. Gara's doctor reports he's cancer-free after surgery
In Alaska, plan to cut oil taxes hits a wall
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Senators grill Parnell team about oil-tax bill
Gov. Sean Parnell's special session oil-tax bill ran into a buzz saw in a Senate committee Thursday when Revenue Commissioner Bryan Butcher gave contradictory testimony about how the bill was developed and couldn't explain how it would change industry profits.
Alaska judge rejects latest redistricting plan
A Superior Court judge has sent the Alaska Redistricting Board back to the drawing board yet again.
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Senate committee takes up gas line bill
House members pressed the reset button Thursday when they appeared in the Senate Community and Regional Affairs Committee, dropping language like "neuter" and "eviscerate" to express their dismay over the committee's work on their in-state gas line bill.
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Legislature quickly passes sex trafficking bill
Alaska lawmakers have unanimously passed a bill stiffening penalties for sex trafficking, removing the label of "prostitute" from victims and changing court procedures as an effort to expedite justice and make the process easier on victims.
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No hurry-up in Juneau as special session gets under way
The Alaska Legislature special session got off to a slow start Wednesday, with the Senate too shorthanded to finish work on a sex-trafficking bill and a House committee not planning to work on oil taxes until Friday.
Coastal zone initiative to be on primary ballot
A ballot initiative that would re-establish a coastal management program in Alaska will appear on the Aug. 28 primary ballot.
Parnell gets $2.9 billion capital budget
The Alaska House on Sunday gave final passage to a $2.9 billion state infrastructure budget that includes projects large and small across Alaska.
Parnell plans to introduce new oil tax legislation
Gov. Sean Parnell plans to introduce oil tax legislation this week that would provide tax breaks for production from existing and new fields.
Legislature passes autism bill
The Alaska Legislature has passed a bill that would extend insurance coverage to some children for treatment of autism spectrum disorders.
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Senate oil-tax bill appears dead in House
The oil-tax bill passed by the Alaska Senate on Saturday night appeared to be alive in the House for a moment on Sunday morning but then was stripped from a bill and appears dead. Today is the final day of the regular legislative session.
Legislature passes scholarship bill
Judges get flexibility in fetal alcohol sentences
Effort to halt church property tax exemption fails
Legislature passes autism bill
Legislature bans texting while driving
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Senate passes oil tax reform bill
The Senate on Saturday grabbed a modest, slow-moving bill encouraging petroleum drilling in the state's Interior, boosted it to the top of its agenda and stuffed it with a key piece of the oil tax reform it had been unable to pass in a much larger bill.
Legislature bans texting while driving
The Alaska Legislature has passed an explicit ban on texting while driving. The Senate passed HB255 on Sunday, the last scheduled day of session. The House passed the bill earlier.
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Prospects for small gas line alive but fading
The Senate on Friday took apart a House bill that would promote construction of a small-diameter gas line from the North Slope, leaving prospects for the line alive but distant and adding a new ripple of drama in the Capitol as the Legislature lurched into its last weekend.
House Finance pursues school transportation bill
Keller to let autism bill move out of committee
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Oil tax bill comes up lame after tense negotiations in Senate
The Senate's oil tax reform bill was pulled from a Senate floor vote Thursday after hours of caucusing failed to resolve differences within the bipartisan majority.
House speaker opposes rewrite of in-state pipeline bill
Legislature approves council to preserve Native languages
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Special session hinges on oil tax bill
Gov. Sean Parnell told The Associated Press that if the Senate passes an oil tax "at the last minute," he would call lawmakers back for a special session. He said he wants to make sure the House has time to evaluate anything the Senate sends over.
Politics blog: Autism bill may be dead
Lawmakers pay tribute to late Rep. Gatto
Legislature passes resolution honoring Girl Scouts
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Legislature rejects Gov. Parnell's Game Board choice
The Alaska Legislature has rejected one of Gov. Sean Parnell's appointees to the Board of Game.
Girl Scouts resolution cruises through House committee
Geraghty OK'd as attorney general
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Oil industry says no to Senate's oil tax plan
Oil industry officials panned the Senate's oil tax plan Friday, saying it raises taxes at certain prices, complicates the tax structure and won't lead to the kind of investment the state wants to boost oil production.
Chances of on-time Legislature adjournment slim, Chenault says
Girl Scouts: No involvement with Planned Parenthood
The Girl Scouts said flatly Friday that the organization had no connections to Planned Parenthood, answering a legislator who had held up a resolution honoring the organization and the Year of the Girl.
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