Alaska Seaplanes has decided to shut down its Wrangell and Petersburg operations, citing poor economics. Its last flights to the communities are...

Almost five years after the original petition was filed, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has ruled that the complaints against mining...

The budget that legislators approved last week and will send to the governor for his signature into law or veto would provide about $450,000 in...

Alaska lawmakers have spent the final days of the 121-day legislative session disagreeing over the amount of this fall’s Permanent Fund dividend....

Elected officials, ballot initiative supporters and opponents, campaign managers and anyone else who writes, texts or tweets outlandish claims and...

State Sen. Click Bishop remembers his first paycheck as a teenager in Fairbanks in the early 1970s. His boss explained the $10 deduction for the...

The great debate in Alaska over taxes sounds similar to the old question of whether it is less painful to yank off the bandage quickly or peel it off...

Gov. Mike Dunleavy told legislators in a pair of closed-door meetings last week that he will introduce a state sales tax as a component of a...

The Haines School District would receive an additional $467,500 in one-year state money under a budget headed toward approval in the Alaska House,...

Pointing to high credit card balances, growing student loan debts and inadequate savings for many U.S. households, Anchorage Sen. Bill Wielechowski...

For the third time in as many legislative sessions, Kodiak Sen. Gary Stevens is leading the push to get a tax on e-cigarettes and vaping products...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has reduced this year’s non-hatchery chinook catch limit for Southeast commercial trollers by 44,000 fish...

A state senator wants to direct a larger share of filing fees paid to the court system toward a nonprofit legal aid organization that helps several...

Sentinel writer Similar pieces of legislation to increase state funding for public schools are awaiting hearings in the House and Senate finance...

It’s embarrassing that it took billions of dollars in losses for some legislators to acknowledge that the state’s fiscal house is leaking worse...

Wrangell Sentinel Alaska legislators will get a 67% pay raise next January — from $50,000 to $84,000 a year — and the governor and state...

When Jan Kanitz of Juneau and Antonia Lenard of Eagle River testified before a legislative committee last Saturday about personal responsibility and...

The Alaska Marine Highway System is working faster to hire more crew, trying to fix problems that slowed the process so much the past four years that...

A state House committee last week held its first hearing on a bill intended to settle the Legislature’s biggest annual political battle: The amount...

In a change of plans from just a few weeks ago, the Alaska Marine Highway System reports it lacks enough crew to operate the Kennicott this summer. Th...

An ongoing shortage of crew is the “No. 1 risk factor” for the Alaska Marine Highway System, Transportation Department Deputy Commissioner...

Organizers are creating programs to start using a $49 million federal grant and $15 million in matching funds to grow Alaska’s shellfish and...

Getting caught between a rock and a hard place is easier. At least you can rent a backhoe and move the rock. Getting politically caught between more m...

The federal ship has come in for the Alaska Marine Highway System, carrying more than $284 million for upgrades to old vessels, money to help pay for...

Other than still needing crew if it is to put the Hubbard into service for the first time since it was built a few years ago, the Alaska Marine...