JUNEAU – Tuesday, the Alaska State Senate amended House Bill 114 to include the “Alaska Reads Act.” The amendment, sponsored by Senator Roger Holland, (R-Anchorage), Senator Donny Olson, (D-Golovin), and Senator Tom Begich, (D-Anchorage), and supported by the Senate unanimously, makes six changes to the version that passed the Senate on April 12, 2022: Increases […]
JUNEAU – Monday, legislation passed the State Legislature that enshrined the historic and landmark Tribal Child Welfare compact in Alaska Statute. House Bill 184 codifies the Tribal Child Welfare compact, a government-to-government agreement between the State of Alaska and eighteen Tribes and tribal organizations that seeks to address the deep structural inequities in the way […]
Click It or Ticket Campaign to run through June 6 (Anchorage, AK) – Alaska State Troopers and Alaska Wildlife Troopers will be conducting additional traffic patrols through June 6th as part of the Click It or Ticket campaign. Nationwide it is estimated that about 15,000 lives were saved in 2017 by motorists wearing their seatbelts. […]
(Juneau) – Governor Mike Dunleavy has issued three disaster declarations. The 2022 Spring Floods, the 2022 Lowell Point Landslide in the City of Seward, and the Galena Fire Hall roof collapse will now be eligible for State of Alaska disaster recovery programs. Governor Dunleavy activated Public Assistance and Individual Assistance for the 2022 Spring […]