CAPITOL HILL — The White House has announced that the top four Republican and Democratic congressional leaders are going to the White House late Wednesday afternoon to meet with President Barack Obama to try to resolve a political stalemate that has shut down large parts of the U.S. government.
On Friday, President Obama announced that he will host the White House Tribal Nations Conference at the Department of the Interior on November 13.
ANCHORAGE – Alaska schools lost over 600 teachers and staff across the state over the past three years as per-student classroom funding has remained flat, according to an Alaska Legislative Research Services report Representative Les Gara and Representative Harriet Drummond released today.
14 of the 30 people arrested after an attempt to scale the Gazprom oil platform in Russia's Pechora Sea have been charged with "piracy" on Wednesday.