JUNEAU – A joint resolution that urges for the completion of a federal land grant endowment to the University of Alaska, SJR 8, was passed Monday by the Alaska Senate. “In our current budget climate, I hope to give the University a renewed opportunity to find other financial options to manage itself, via its potential land holdings, and rely less on our state’s general […]
Americans are commemorating Presidents Day Monday, a federal holiday honoring all U.S. presidents. The holiday is observed on the third Monday of February, the birth month of two of the country’s most prominent presidents – George Washington, the nation’s first president, and Abraham Lincoln, who led the country through the Civil War. While some U.S. […]
The U.S. government has carried out its first execution of a female inmate in nearly 70 years. Lisa Montgomery was put to death early Wednesday at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. A series of legal challenges seeking to stop the execution ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling late Tuesday it could go […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — Tuesday Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Dr. Tamika L. Ledbetter announced that this week the department began issuing the $300 Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation payments, provided for in the Continued Assistance for Unemployed Workers Act of 2020. These payments are being made on regular unemployment insurance claims for the […]