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Also at Wednesday’s quarterly meeting, the Permanent Fund board contentiously elected a new chair and vice chair, a move that one trustee labeled as “a coup.”
State evidence was submitted days before the trial was set to start, which prompted the delay.
Voter fraud charges were filed against LeDoux in 2020. The long-delayed trial is set to start Thursday.
Days after a judge disqualified some of the booklets used to gather signatures in support of the repeal effort, attorneys for the state said the initiative still has enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola said she had to learn more about Harris’ energy policies before deciding whether to support her.
The pledges are a way to circumvent ranked choice voting and put forward one Republican candidate in elections, according to one supporter.
The party joined prominent Democrats nationwide rallying behind Vice President Kamala Harris.
Legislators appropriated $5.2 million this year to fund the Alaska Reads Act that Gov. Mike Dunleavy then vetoed.
The Alaska Division of Elections has been ordered to determine by Wednesday whether the ranked choice repeal effort collected enough valid signatures.
Plaintiffs say they waited an unlawfully long period of time for food aid and asked the court to order the state health department to obey federal deadlines.
Leaked emails had suggested Ethan Schutt would not serve a second term. He was reappointed by the governor Thursday.
Incumbent Alaska Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola is continuing to raise more money than her Republican challengers, according to reports published this week by the Federal Elections Commission.
Cook Inletkeeper and other conservation groups argued that the environmental review that led to the lease sale was flawed. The ruling suspends the single lease acquired in the sale, by Hilcorp.
Care providers say the money is going to salaries to retain teachers and keep centers open.
High-profile Alaska Republicans were in Milwaukee for the convention, but Sen. Lisa Murkowski was notably absent.
Management of the Blood Bank of Alaska say they’ll take a “leap of faith” to build a donor testing lab, despite not knowing how they will secure funding.
The 50-page crime bill combines wide-ranging policy changes. The ACLU of Alaska has flagged what it described as “significant constitutional concerns.”
Alaska now has two vacancies on the federal bench, with disagreements between senators over who should fill those seats
The North Slope Borough also filed a lawsuit against the environmental protections.
Judge Josh Kindred was asked to resign after deliberately and repeatedly lying about sexual misconduct with a former clerk and two other attorneys, a scathing Judicial Council order said.
Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom and businessman Nick Begich could both advance to the November ballot as they seek to unseat Democratic U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola.
Kindred, 46, resigned from a lifetime appointment on the federal bench without explanation on Wednesday.
A similar lawsuit was filed by the Dunleavy administration in March, seeking $700 billion for the EPA’s decision to halt the Pebble mine.