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That means the state House will flip from Republican-led majority control and have a new speaker, according to a news release.

Alaska Native groups say they’ve worked for years to get agencies to address the state’s high rate of missing and murdered Indigenous people.

Some policymakers said pets would cause too much damage and noise. Others said legislators and staff have asked for pet-friendly housing in Juneau.

The Department of the Interior is scheduled to release its final decision on the project as soon as March 6, and state legislators are only the latest group trying to sway the federal government in the last days before the decision.

After the flood waters, some were left with feet of sand in their homes.

The budget proposed by the Finance Committee would have put away $1.2 billion in state savings accounts. But the plan that emerged from the Senate would take almost as much from savings, according to committee co-chair Sen. Bert Stedman.

In a court filing Tuesday, the administration agreed with road opponents that the environmental analysis of the project is flawed.

A 30-day special session is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. Thursday. 

Vials have been airlifted to villages chartered planes. Others were driven through choppy seas on a water taxi. And some of the clinicians giving shots in rural Alaska were even shuttled around villages on sleds, pulled behind snowmachines.

Meyer said there are four precincts that still don’t have voting officials for Election Day: Sleetmute, Clark’s Point, Wainwright and Deering.