Nathaniel Herz covers politics and general assignments. He's currently in Juneau covering the Alaska Legislature. Sign up for his weekly email roundup on all things Legislature, The Agenda.
The time that’s passed since Stevens was in the Alaska Senate, said a state Republican Party official, gives him an opportunity to reintroduce himself to Alaskans.
Two of the people working with it -- Sitka Democratic Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins and political consultant Jim Lottsfeldt -- declined to comment about their plans.
A pair of proposed ballot measures from a group of Alaska doctors comes with the support of a union-backed group based in Washington, D.C.
A former state House member says he's batting around ideas about how to raise taxes on oil companies through a ballot initiative.
“There’s an agreement among the House and the Senate that this is something we can both live with,” said Homer Rep. Paul Seaton.
Gov. Walker’s administration warned that the first version of the initiative would have unconstitutionally limited projects like dams, mines and pipelines.
Alaska lawmakers have collected as much as $45,000 each to cover their expenses in Juneau this year, even as proposals to reduce that spending have languished.
Alaska Gov. Bill Walker, at a Monday news conference, said he'll await more progress from state lawmakers in private negotiations before he calls them back to work in Juneau on a capital budget and fiscal plan.
The community has pushed for decades for a road through a national wildlife refuge that would connect to the big runway in nearby Cold Bay. Will Congress go along, or will the Trump administration have to use its executive powers to advance the project?
Mike Dunleavy, the Wasilla Republican state senator, filed paperwork Monday with state campaign finance regulators that says he intends to run for governor in 2018.
The bill passed late Saturday will end cash payments to oil companies. But there was no agreement on a plan to pass the state capital budget, which is already two weeks late.
The Alaska Legislature on Friday was nearing the end of its second special session with no progress looking likely on its major pending issues. And Gov. Bill Walker offered no clear indication of what he'd ask from lawmakers next.
