JUNEAU – Celebration of Alaska’s purchase from Russia, known as the Treaty of Cession, will be held in Washington D.C. next week and feature a number of Alaska leaders. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the document that transferred ownership of Alaska to the United States. Lt. Governor Byron Mallott is the Chair of […]
October 6, 2016 ANCHORAGE– Building on the cooperative relationship between Alaska and British Columbia, Alaska Lt. Governor Byron Mallott and British Columbia Minister of Energy and Mines Bill Bennett and British Columbia Minister of Environment Mary Polak today signed a Statement of Cooperation on the Protection of Transboundary Waters (SoC). The SoC implements Section 2 […]
JUNEAU – The Office of the Lt. Governor has scheduled several public hearings on Ballot Measure #1, the Permanent Fund Voter Registration Initiative, to take place in Alaska’s four judicial districts. The hearings are required under a law passed by the Alaska State Legislature in 2010. Alaska Statute 15.45.195 requires the lieutenant governor to hold […]
Anchorage, Alaska – Six Alaskans nominated by Governor Sean Parnell were appointed by the U.S. secretary of state to serve on a panel for the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission. The panel serves as a forum for promoting the conservation of anadromous stocks and ecologically related species in the North Pacific Ocean; and advises the […]