Sean Parnell News

House speaker discusses passage of governor's oil tax bill, in-state gas pipeline bill, says market will determine where gas goes House Speaker Mike Chenault's resource development priority is about to become a reality.

The Alaska Marine Highway System is considering raising its rates for traveling aboard the state's ferries in order to deal with a pared down operating budget approved by lawmakers this spring.

A Japanese consortium working on an independent Alaska liquefied natural gas project has completed a feasibility study and given it to state officials.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management released a plan May 8 identifying 50 abandoned wells in the Alaska Arctic that it believes require clean-up by the agency.

Gov. Sean Parnell is in New York meeting with banks and rating agencies about Alaska's budget and economic outlook.

Alaska Governor Sean Parnell has ordered state flags to be lowered to half-staff Wednesday, in observance of Peace Officers Memorial Day and Law Enforcement Memorial Week.

Even for Southeast Alaska, this is a lot of rain. Teams of at least a dozen men at a time slog through downpour, grunting and groaning as they carry the nearly 1000-pound load the few hundred feet that may as well have been miles.

An oil industry group wants Alaskans to think hard about whether to put their names on petitions seeking to put a measure on the 2014 ballot that would repeal the oil tax cuts passed this year by the state Legislature.

Governor Sean Parnell was in Ketchikan Saturday, and came by the KRBD station for an interview.

The Northwest Territories is promoting the idea of a "made-in-the-North" oil pipeline as a means to get Canadian crude to international markets.

Mount Juneau is seen in the backdrop of the House of Wickersham State Historic Site on Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in Juneau, Alaska.

An historic house in downtown Juneau could one day serve as a home-away-from-home for Alaska's lieutenant governor.

"Did you hear the one about Bill Walker , Sean Parnell , Joe Miller , Mead Treadwell , marijuana and oil taxes all getting together on the same Primary Election ballot?" Charisse and post-Love Caucus sweetie John Thompson are engaged.

Says not enough information available on effects of Senate Bill 21, calls it a giveaway, ranks it as worst deal state has ever made House Minority Leader Beth Kerttula wasted little time after the legislative session ended before she tore into Gov.

The 2013 Alaska Legislature passed three significant pieces of legislation and appropriated hundreds of millions of dollars for projects that will support the energy industry before it adjourned in April, with a Republican Governor and Republican-controlled Legislature aligned on the need for pro-industry oil and gas tax changes and further ... (more)

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management released a plan Wednesday identifying 50 abandoned wells in the Alaska arctic that it believes require clean-up by the agency.

A proposal to have the state help pay to clean up abandoned federal well sites in the Alaska arctic is "dead on arrival," U.S. Sen.

Alaska Lieutenant Gov. Mead Treadwell is "intensifying efforts" to prepare for a potential Senate announcement now that his friend, Gov.

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Governors of coastal states say the shadow cast by Deepwater Horizon has loomed too large and lingered too long--now they want more drilling off their coasts and they want to reap more of the benefits, they told an audience at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston.