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If the committee does not act on the governor’s plans, the expansion of Medicaid is expected to go forward automatically on Sept. 1.

Five decades after the Vietnam War began—and four decades after it ended— veterans exposed to the chemical brew dubbed Agent Orange are still fighting for compensation and benefits for themselves and their children.

On Aug. 31 Obama will address a State Department climate change conference in Anchorage.

The university system is loaning UAF $2 million dollars to get the facility back into operation.

After promising to expand the state’s Medicaid program on the campaign trail, Gov. Bill Walker announced Thursday he will sidestep the legislature to make that happen.

A team from the White House will be in Dillingham this Thursday and Friday to check out the town ahead of a possible visit by President Obama later this year.

The Columbus Dispatch calls Ohio’s insistence an “unseemly effort on behalf of a politician who never set foot near the mountain and had no known interest in it.”

Nothing highlights American indifference toward the Arctic as much as the tiny inventory of U.S. icebreakers: One heavy-duty ship, one medium and one down for repair.

Financing options are multiplying for “coder boot camps” — small, immersive schools that turn out software developers in weeks rather than years.

The historic pact, which aims to restrict Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief, still has to be approved by various world capitals.