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In a new proposed five-year plan for offshore drilling, the Department of the Interior floated the idea of auctioning off leases to oil and gas companies in the inlet in 2026. That’s in addition to 10 lease sales proposed for the Gulf of Mexico.

Dunleavy spokesman Jeff Turner said the governor felt many Alaskans had little information about the project.

Organizers said they lined up with the registered groups moving along the street, and no one tried to stop them.

Kavanaugh, who became the Democratic Party’s director in 2019, has been charged with three misdemeanors, including DUI, criminal mischief and refusing to submit to a chemical test. 

An Anchorage-based Indian law specialist says the decision still marks a major change that turns long-held principles of Indian law upside down.

State officials say the reorganization will result in two departments that should be more wieldy.

An NPR investigation found that since the Capitol riot, the election denial movement has moved from the national level to hundreds of grassroots events across the country. Here are four key takeaways.

The comment period was originally set to end in July. Now it will continue for two more months, to Sept. 6.

The Muscogee Nation called the ruling an “alarming step backward.”

City election officials have until next Thursday to review the additional signatures and to certify or reject the petition.