State Government

The department will be prohibited from conducting its planned bear cull in the Mulchatna caribou herd range until it corrects the legal flaws identified in a March 14 ruling issued by a different judge.

Alaska’s 20 centers were in limbo, facing a $5.5 million shortfall after federal grants were ended or cut, as well as uncertainty over whether operations and services would continue past June. 

At least one other member of the Alaska Senate’s bipartisan majority is expected to not seek reelection in 2026.

Looking for a digestible rundown of what lawmakers spent the last 120 days doing? Look no further.

Legislators finished the regular session one day early, an unusual — if not unprecedented — accomplishment in Alaska.

While the state tried to change the way certain transportation funding is calculated, it’s unclear why the gap in school funding was wide enough to fail the test in the first place.

Lawmakers voted 46-14 to override the governor’s veto of a bill that includes increased funding for public schools and a series of education policy reforms.

House Bill 57 would have increased the base public school funding by $700 per student. Lawmakers included several policy reforms in an effort at compromise.

A panel of negotiators has finished combining different budget drafts approved by the House and Senate.

Unless the state is able to appeal the decision, what’s usually tens of millions of dollars in federal aid won’t count toward the state’s education contribution for the next fiscal year.