(Anchorage, AK) – The State of Alaska filed a complaint Tuesday that challenges a series of federal administrative decisions that cast into uncertainty long-settled jurisdictional authority over land in Alaska. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and names officials within the U.S. Department of the Interior (Interior) […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Nick Begich (R-AK) announced his final slate of subcommittee assignments for the 119th Congress. Congressman Begich will serve on three key House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Subcommittees. These assignments include oversight and policymaking duties for Alaskan and Arctic research and technological policy and programs. Alaska is the nation’s final frontier and […]
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has named longtime Republican politician and businessman John Binkley to an open seat on the board that controls the $80 billion Alaska Permanent Fund. The six-person board has been operating with five members since July, when board member Ellie Rubenstein resigned after leaked emails suggested that corporation staff felt pressured by Rubenstein to […]
Standing beside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump said that “the U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip,” which would be emptied of Palestinians. U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States will “take over” Gaza after emptying the embattled enclave of nearly all its native Palestinians, sparking a firestorm of criticism that included allegations of […]