(ANCHORAGE, AK) – Alaska Department of Public Safety Commissioner James Cockrell has appointed Lloyd Nakano as the new State Fire Marshal and Director of the Division of Fire and Life Safety. State Fire Marshal Nakano has been with the Department of Public Safety since September 2005 and has been the Assistant State Fire Marshal since […]
JUNEAU-Wednesday, Representative Ortiz introduced a bill to increase education funding across the state. House Bill 65 will increase the Base Student Allocation (BSA) by $1250, an increase of nearly 21%. In the past decade, Alaska’s urban consumer price index has increased by 24.6%, while the BSA has increase by only 4.2%. Schools have made it […]
Washington, D.C.— Following a week of high-profile Alaska news, Representative Peltola welcomed Alaska journalists to her office and over the Internet to an informal press gaggle. The Representative discussed a range of topics that included the Willow Project, the EPA’s Final Determination for Bristol Bay, and resolutions on the floor of the House this week. “I […]
Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and U.S. Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (D-Alaska) Wednesday welcomed the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) release of a Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (FSEIS) for ConocoPhillips’ Willow Project on Alaska’s North Slope. “The Willow Project has earned very broad support from communities on the North […]