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House Bill 80 now goes to Governor Sean Parnell for his signature.

Attu Island is overdue for some spring cleaning. Seventy years after World War II, the island is still littered with shards of old Coke bottles, lead-based batteries, leaking fuel drums and unexploded artillery.

A group of King Cove residents are meeting with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. The goal is to convince Salazar to allow a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.

The document is meant as a policy guide for such things as municipal land use, economic development, transportation, and infrastructure.

Former state Senator Albert Kookesh was medevaced to Anchorage Monday morning after suffering a heart attack.

Alaskans marked Elizabeth Peratrovich Day on Saturday, in honor of the Tlingit woman whose testimony to the territorial legislature helped pass an Anti-Discrimination Act in 1945. A small crowd gathered at the Alaska State Museum in Juneau to hear a talk from Barbara Cadiente-Nelson, a board member of Sealaska Native Corporation and the Douglas Indian…

Despite advancements in tribal governing, leaders are worried about the coming sequester, and what it means for Indian Health Services.

Alaska’s congressional delegation today introduced new Sealaska land-selection bills. Both would turn about 70,000 acres of the Tongass National Forest over to Sealaska, the regional Native corporation for Southeast Alaska.

After more than five years of recession and painfully slow recovery, President Obama has sent a powerful signal that he thinks the U.S. economy is now in much better shape — good enough, at least, to provide workers with raises.