Washington, D.C. – Alaska Congressman Don Young Monday joined a bipartisan group of lawmakers urging House appropriators to reject the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) financial outline for the U.S. Coast Guard – a reported $1.3 billion in spending cuts. “Our recommendation is that OMB’s financial outline, specific to the Coast Guard, be rejected […]
U.S. House speaker Paul Ryan says “answers” are needed on reports of improper contacts between President Donald Trump’s campaign officials and Russia during the presidential campaign. “We need to get answers. We need to make sure that nothing happened that shouldn’t have happened as we go forward,” Ryan said during a televised interview Tuesday with […]
A structure fire on South Knik Road in Butte took the life of a female occupant, the trooper dispatch divulged on Monday. The Mat-Su Fire Department and AST were called out to a residential fire on South Knik Road at 12:54 pm on Sunday, and arrived to find the building fully engulfed, with the woman […]
Juneau – Wednesday, the Alaska State Senate joined the Alaska House of Representatives in approving House Joint Resolution 5, urging the United States Congress to pass legislation to open the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil and gas development. The resolution, sponsored by Representative Dean Westlake (D-Kotzebue), underwent minor […]