ALASKA — The National Center for Law and Economic Justice (NCLEJ) and Northern Justice Project filed a motion for summary judgment in their federal lawsuit to ensure access to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for Alaskans. This motion for summary judgment asks the Court to rule that Alaska’s operation of SNAP violates the rights of […]
For millennia, Indigenous people living in Alaska and Canada’s Yukon territory have relied on Chinook salmon. The large, fatty fish provide essential nutrients for Arctic living and have influenced traditions and languages across generations. But over the past three decades, many communities have been unable to fish Chinook amid a sharp salmon population decline. The […]
Big Lake – Tuesday, leading Republican gubernatorial candidate Bernadette Wilson announced that State Senator and Veteran Mike Shower has joined her campaign as her running mate for Lieutenant Governor. Wilson, who has led the Republican field in the first two publicly released polls and has been endorsed by Congressman Byron Donalds, released the following statement: […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Nick Begich (all R-Alaska), today convened a roundtable meeting with Alaska community and fisheries leaders, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, and other senior federal officials to discuss policy priorities for the Alaska seafood sector and ways the Trump […]