(Anchorage, AK) – Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy and First Lady Rose Dunleavy issued the following statement on the passing of former U.S. Senator Mike Gravel, who served in the Alaska House of Representatives from 1963 to 1966 where he was elected state House Speaker in 1965. Gravel was elected to Congress in 1968, where he served […]
(Anchorage, AK) Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy called the decision by the Biden Administration to repeal the previous administration’s plan to lift roadless rule allowing the forest to allow sensible economic activity in the Tongass National Forest a bad decision that will negatively impact Alaskans. “I am yet again disappointed in the Biden Administration’s latest suppression of […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Governor Dunleavy sent a letter to President Biden today demanding that the U.S. Departments of Interior, Defense, and Agriculture complete the legally required cleanup of over a thousand contaminated sites on State of Alaska and Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) lands. The contamination was already present at the time the lands […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Governor Mike Dunleavy Wednesday called the move to expand the vaccine eligibility criteria for the state-allocated COVID-19 vaccine significant as part of the process in accelerating Alaska’s recovery and getting the economy back up and running. Alaska continues to lead the nation in vaccinations. The newly eligible group, Phase 1c, will include […]
March 1, 2021 (Anchorage, AK) – Governor Mike Dunleavy today appointed Glen Klinkhart as the Director of the Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office (AMCO). Klinkhart has been serving as the interim director since November of 2019. “I want to thank Glen for his proactive approach in finding solutions with the public, the licensees, the boards, […]
September 29, 2020 (Anchorage, AK) – Today, Governor Mike Dunleavy praised President Trump’s signing of the permit authorizing the Alaska to Alberta Railway Development Corporation to construct, connect, operate, and maintain railway facilities at the international boundary between the United States and Canada. The 1,600 mile project would run between northern Alberta to deep […]