Alaska Government News

Last week, Democratic senators from California, Oregon and Washington wrote to Obama to express concern about the potential effect of the Pebble Mine on their salmon fishing industries and demanding a 'valid, sound science based approach to ensuring that Bristol Bay salmon are safeguarded.'

Alaska Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell formally jumped into the 2014 race for U.S. Senate, hoping to take on Democratic incumbent Mark Begich.

Sen. Mark Begich on Monday said he's closer to being a Rockefeller Republican than a Pelosi Democrat.

The Department of Environmental Conservation said the gift is from the Hokkaido Development Engineering Center and members of the International Association of Cold Region Development Studies.

Environmental Conservation Commissioner Larry Hartig said in a release that the donation is a symbol of the "deep friendship" between the U.S. and Japan.

Alaskans are today allowed to possess small amounts of marijuana in their own homes but the sale of marijuana is still a crime.

Poems by local writers Emily Wall and Ernestine Hayes have been selected for permanent placement in Totem Bight State Historical Park in Ketchikan as part of the Alaska Center for the Book's Poems in Place project.

On May 10th, an eighteen ton bulldozer sank into a kettle pond while traveling to Stephan Lake as part of a convoy of heavy equipment.

The Democratic senator reflects others' views in Alaska's Washington delegation: Lawmakers are demanding more transparency and congressional oversight on government surveillance, though they won't say the programs need to be shut down or that Congress should repeal the Patriot Act.

People across the state are gathering 40,000 petition signatures, needed by mid-July, so Alaskans can vote to reject or approve the recent oil tax giveaway.

Dozens of locals spent Wednesday afternoon swimming, boating and splashing around at Jewel Lake.

The federal Environmental Protection Agency is collecting public comments through the end of June on a proposed mining operation near Alaska's salmon-rich Bristol Bay.

The guard says in a release that the Alaskans are taking part in the Exportable Combat Training Capability program near Gowen Field, Idaho.

The U.S. Coast Guard, state Department of Environmental Conservation and city of Valdez plan to participate in the exercise along with the Alyeska Pipeline Service Co.

The U.S. Air Force has delayed hearings until mid-July on the proposed relocation of Eielson Air Force Base's F-16 squadron to Anchorage.

A new analysis of height and weight measurements for thousands of children in the Anchorage and Mat-Su Borough shows that the rate of obesity decreased slightly between the 2003-04 and 2010-11 school years, according to a news release from the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services.

The next statewide election is more than a year away, but candidates are already lining up for the top races - U.S Senate, U.S. House , governor, lieutenant governor - hoping to build name recognition and campaign accounts that could help boost their chances.

Today is Congressman Don Young's 80th birthday. He has been a member of the House of Representatives half his life.

Twenty-two artworks by Alaskans -- and owned by everyone in Alaska -- went on display at the Alaska State Council on the Arts offices in Mountain View at a reception on May 30. The pieces are the latest acquisitions for the Alaska Contemporary Art Bank, a collection of more than 700 works that are available for state offices and public places on a ... (more)

The joke is that mosquitoes are Alaska's state bird, and they could be even worse this year because of the late spring.