Anchorage News

Allowing the executive branch to operate without properly notifying the public risks a dangerous concentration of power.

Given that our state’s health care is already the most expensive in the nation for personal health care spending, one would think legislators would be acting swiftly to address the problem.

If and when the FDA acts to legalize some psychedelic drugs for prescription use, Alaska should be ready.

If only there were some kind of a system that could prevent the city’s repetitive and costly runoff elections.

New short-term rental rules in Anchorage would have caused more problems than they solved.

Alaska’s state Supreme Court justices are right, and their decision is prescient.

The Alaska Supreme Court recently waded into one of the most contentious debates in our state.

Balancing a needed decentralization of power on one hand against bureaucratic bloat on the other is a tricky business.

Would the Anchorage police chief’s transparency-minded directive have been issued if reporters hadn’t discovered an unreported officer arrest?

No matter how you slice it, life in Alaska is about to get even more expensive.

Alaskans should contact their legislators and let them know which of these priorities they support.

Body camera footage of serious incidents has been withheld elsewhere in the U.S. We can’t afford for that to happen here.

No better housing plan for Girdwood will move forward in the near future — particularly if this one gets NIMBYed out of existence two years in a row.

In a few days, Alaska legislators will gavel back into session in Juneau. Waiting on their plate, as has been the case for a decade, will be the state’s budget crisis and the need for a sustainable fiscal solution.