ANCHORAGE – Governor Bill Walker and Lieutenant Governor Byron Mallott hosted a dinner for King Harald V of Norway in Anchorage Tuesday, where they discussed their respective government’s practices on oil and gas development. The meeting was part of King Harald’s larger trip to Alaska and Washington as the U.S. assumes chairmanship of the Arctic […]
(PALMER, Alaska) – Various search and rescue volunteer organizations in Alaska are participating in a large scale training event May 29-31, 2015. Approximately 150 SAR volunteers will gather at the Palmer Fairgrounds to practice their interoperability and hone their skills. The three-day Alaska Wilderness Interagency Search Exercise is sanctioned by the Department of Public Safety. […]
According to the Alaska Commission on Judicial Conduct, they have filed a complaint of formal charges against sitting Nome Superior Court Judge Timothy Dooley on May 26th. In the complaint, six examples of statements made by Dooley were listed by the ACJC as conduct by Dooley that violated “AS 22.30.01 l(a)(3)(C), (D), and (E) and […]
ANCHORAGE – Today, the Alaska Independent Democratic Coalition released a memo from the Alaska Department of Revenue showing the Republican-proposed budget spends $600 million more on oil tax credits than provided for under Alaska’s statutory cap on credit payments. The memo states in part that “as part of ACES, the Legislature added language to indicate […]