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The Alaska Legislature overrode the governor’s education veto on Tuesday morning, 46-14. In the past two years, three attempts to override vetoes on bills increasing education funding have failed.
This is a developing story. In what the Alaska Legislature’s longest-serving member called the “smoothest ending in 20 years” the Senate adjourned for the year at 1:20 p.m. Tuesday followed by the ...
Former Juneau school board member Steve Whitney, who stepped down in 2019 after one three-year term due to a family illness, ...
There won’t be a vote on limiting the number of cruise passengers in Juneau during this fall’s municipal election since an ...
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For the second year, the Sustainable Southeast Partnership is releasing “Woven” as a printed and digital collection of ...
According to the Ready To Learn grants to PBS The Ready To Learn grants “were funding racial justice educational programming ...
Alaska State Trooper Sgt. Chris Russell is the president of the Juneau chapter of the APOA and has been involved in the torch ...
A panel of six House and Senate members began trying to resolve about 400 differences in the state budgets passed by their ...
A resolution calling upon Alaska’s all-Republican congressional delegation to oppose cuts to Medicaid passed the Alaska ...
Eaglecrest Ski Area’s board president said Thursday the limits are being pushed on the May 2028 deadline to open a gondola ...