WASHINGTON, D.C. – After months of negotiations, Senator Lisa Murkowski yesterday announced a deal that would return authority over air emissions from offshore activity in the Arctic to the Interior Department via the 2012 Interior Appropriations Bill. Murkowski is the ranking Republican on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee for Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, giving her […]
ANCHORAGE-Yesterday, an arrest was made in the investigation of the two bomb threats carried out last month at the Alaska Department of Corrections Adult Probation Office on A Street. Arrested was Bryant Brown, age 44.
WASHINGTON-Alaska Congressman Don Young applauded the announcement today that the year-end Appropriations bill will include a provision sought by Rep. Young. The language in the bill specifically forbids the National Parks Service (NPS) from using any funds allocated in this legislation to issue or enforce any regulations related to boating on waters in Alaska’s Yukon-Charley […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Governor Sean Parnell today released his proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2013. The budgets represent a $600 million decrease in state general fund spending. The budgets total $6.4 billion in state general funds and $12.1 billion in all funds including Permanent Fund and federal dollars.