Washington, D.C. – This week, on the opening day of the 117th Congress, Congressman Don Young (R-AK) introduced the Strengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act. This legislation reauthorizes the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery and Conservation Management Act – landmark fisheries management and conservation legislation first written by Congressman Young in 1975. The Magnuson-Stevens […]
Babcock to Assume Role of Senior Policy Advisor for Strategic Affairs, Stevens Named Chief of Staff (Anchorage, AK) – Alaska Governor Michael J. Dunleavy Wednesday announced changes to his senior staff: Tuckerman Babcock will assume the role of Senior Policy Advisor for Strategic Affairs and Ben Stevens will become the Governor’s new Chief of […]
JUNEAU – With about three weeks remaining in the 2019 fiscal year, the Dunleavy administration this week distributed a one-time $20 million grant appropriated last year by the Alaska Legislature to K-12 schools. Earlier this year, the Dunleavy administration asked lawmakers to withhold the grant from schools, but found little support in the Legislature […]
A Nenana man was indicted on a half a dozen charges and charged with additional misdemeanors following a Tuesday incident where he violated a Domestic Violence Protective Order and was shot in the process, troopers reported on Sunday. According to the report, 41-year-old Charles Scott Stevens of Nenana trespassed on property that he was prohibited […]