“U.S. foreign adversaries have already purchased ag lands and properties near military bases in the Lower 48,” bill sponsor Senator Shelley Hughes said. “Let’s ensure that does not happen in Alaska.” JUNEAU–Wednesday, a bill by Senator Shelley Hughes (R-Palmer) was reintroduced in the Alaska Senate. Senate Bill 139 addresses the nexus between food security and […]
Anchorage, AK—U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) Friday issued the following statement about President Trump’s latest Executive Order, entitled Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production. Murkowski, who for years has pushed to modernize federal mineral policies to protect our security and strengthen our economy, applauded the order. “Our lack of mineral security is our nation’s Achilles’ […]
The U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Navy Integrated Program Office received approval Dec. 19 to begin building the first Polar Security Cutter (PSC). The PSC marks the first heavy polar icebreaker to be built in the United States in more than five decades. The work is being performed by Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, […]
Washington — Top U.S. election security officials are asking American voters to tune out the noise and reject what they describe as unfounded claims that the coming presidential election will be rigged. Instead, in the first of a series of election security briefings planned in the run-up to November’s election, they say U.S. voters should have […]