Nondalton – Tuesday, in the community of Nondalton, near Lake Clark, Governor Bill Walker signed House Bill 267, which gives municipalities that levy taxes on guided hunting and sport fishing access to records that businesses submit to state agencies. HB 267 will allow local governments to confirm that hunting and fishing activities subject to taxes […]
As a lifelong Alaskan, commercial and subsistence fisherman, I support Mike Dunleavy as our next governor. Recent statements from critics that Mike is not supportive of commercial fishing prompted me to write this piece because my personal experience has been exactly the opposite. Such statements lack any basis in fact, and they appear to be […]
Anchorage – Today, Alaska Governor Bill Walker signed House Bill 214 to name Alaska’s teen dating violence awareness and prevention program after Bree Moore who was killed in a senseless act of dating violence in 2014. Alaska’s in-school dating violence prevention program was first authorized in 2015 when the Alaska Legislature passed legislation to implement […]
ANCHORAGE – Governor Bill Walker signed Bree’s Law into statute today at the Anchorage Native Primary Care Center. Members of the Legislature, healthcare professionals from around Alaska, the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Harriet Drummond, and the bill’s fiercest advocates, Cindy and Butch Moore, joined in the signing ceremony for HB 214. The bill’s namesake is 20-year-old […]