(Anchorage, AK) –Last week, staff from the Alaska Department of Administration Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) traveled to Southwest Alaska to offer in-person DMV services to a village of about 440 people for the first time. DMV staff traveled to Manokotak, which is on the Igushik River about 20 miles by air west of […]
Wednesday, U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), vice chairman of the Committee, led an oversight hearing titled, “Water as a Trust Resource: Examining Access in Native Communities.” The hearing follows historic investments made by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act […]
Anchorage, AK—Today, Representative Peltola was joined by Tommy Beaudreau, Deputy Secretary of the Interior, and Mitch Landrieu, Senior Advisor to the President and White House Infrastructure Coordinator, to announce $100 million in new funding for broadband projects in Alaska. The funding is being delivered through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s ReConnect program to three […]
Program compensates communities for supporting the nation’s public lands, waters; invests in firefighters, police, schools and road construction WASHINGTON —The Department of the Interior today announced that 30 local governments in Alaska will receive a total of $35.4 million in Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) funding for 2023. Because local governments cannot tax federal […]