Washington, DC – Tuesday, U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, hosted the Secretary of the Interior in subcommittee to discuss the Department’s budget request. The Senator reinforced her appreciation for the administration’s approach to resource development in Alaska, while also addressing staffing concerns, public land […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Following a week-long trial, an Anchorage jury Tuesday found 52-year-old Ronald Fischer of Xenia, Ohio, guilty of the sexual assault of a 17-year-old girl in Anchorage in 1995. The jury deliberated for approximately two hours before finding Fischer guilty of Sexual Assault in the First Degree. In the early morning hours of Feb. […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor recently joined a coalition of 23 states to challenge Vermont’s Climate Superfund Act. Vermont’s dangerous law, like the one passed in New York, will fine America’s coal, oil and natural gas suppliers out of business. “Alaska is home to the most abundant natural resources and some of […]
“The people stealing from Americans are not folks with tattoos and hoodies—it’s people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins, sitting in this Capitol right now,” said Rep. Maxwell Frost. House Republicans on Thursday morning passed their sprawling budget reconciliation package after making last-minute changes to the legislation to mollify far-right hardliners. The final count […]