Whether or not ships come, Gov. Mike Dunleavy said the state is planning a major marketing campaign to encourage tourists to visit Alaska by other means.
If approved, Alaska would have the nation’s first statewide street legal policy for four-wheelers and snowmachines.
Last year’s picks by the governor for boards and commissions did not lose their powers in December, the court ruled.
Some lawmakers and staff drank beers with invited guests while playing pingpong and basketball in the Capitol’s gymnasium.
Though approved by voters in 2006, the limit hasn’t been followed since 2013.
More than $1 billion in federal aid is coming to the state government, but lawmakers don’t yet know how to spend it.
The court is considering whether Gov. Mike Dunleavy improperly kept in place appointments to boards, commissions and his Cabinet after lawmakers failed to meet to consider the appointments.
Cockrell has worked in Alaska law enforcement for decades as a fish and wildlife officer, director of the Alaska Wildlife Troopers and head of the Alaska State Troopers.
A campaign adviser for former Alaska administration commissioner Kelly Tshibaka said a disastrous experience with movers drove up costs for her family’s 2019 move north for a Dunleavy administration job.
Democrats and Republicans are each offering proposals this year, but quick action isn’t likely, they say.
The proposal by Democratic Sen. Elvi Gray-Jackson would ban chokeholds, prevent officers from shooting at vehicles, and require them to follow de-escalation procedures and provide verbal warnings before firing their weapons.
A broader partisan divide over the COVID-19 vaccine is already prompting concerns about vaccine hesitancy in some of Alaska’s more conservative communities.
Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux, R-Anchorage, who lost her re-election campaign in 2020, still faces eight other charges, including one felony.
Tshibaka, a Republican who has led the Department of Administration since early 2019, in a statement said she is resigning to pursue the Senate race.
The state’s electric companies are seeking a shield for liability from some wildfires started by broken power lines.
The governor said he’s asking the federal agencies “to stop bothering Alaskans” who are on navigable rivers.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy has said parts of the bill are unneeded, and the Senate is considering changes.
She also was a member of the “Old Iditarod Gang” and helped begin the famous sled-dog race.
Lawmakers are considering proposals for a ferry system whose budget has been slashed over the past seven years.
There was finger-pointing over why things played out as they did with the state’s emergency disaster declarations, the last of which expired in mid-February.
