WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Murkowski is co-sponsoring bipartisan legislation that attempts to fund the low income home energy assistance program (LIHEAP) at 2011 levels. Senators Snowe (R-ME) and Reed (D-RI) are the sponsors of S.1961, theLIHEAP Protection Act which would maintain a flat funding level of $4.7 billion instead of the $3.6 billion currently in […]
WASHINGTON – A former Master Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force was sentenced yesterday to 40 months in prison for conspiring to and receiving bribes from military contractors in return for the award of Department of Defense contracts during his deployment to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice […]
JUNEAU, Alaska – Governor Sean Parnell announced today that his Fiscal Year 2013 budget will provide $8 million in continued support for the Alaska Performance Scholarship, which challenges students to take more rigorous high school courses, and then rewards them with funding to attend Alaska’s universities and postsecondary training programs. Nearly one-third of Alaska’s 2011 […]
NEW STUYAHOK, Alaska-On Wednesday, December 7th, at about 9:42 pm, the Alaska State troopers in Dillingham received a report from the Village Public Safety Officer in New Stuyahok of a disturbance at the local Senior Center.