Sean Parnell News

Gov. Sean Parnell has signed legislation aimed at rural education. SB47, from Sen. John Coghill, relates to boarding schools.

Alaska Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell announced Tuesday that he will officially challenge Sen. Mark Begich in 2014, transitioning from an exploratory committee to a full-fledged campaign.

Treadwell launched his exploratory effort in November. When Gov. Sean Parnell announced recently that he would not run for the Senate seat, it was expected that Treadwell would run.

Gov. Sean Parnell is seeking a federal disaster declaration following spring flooding on the Yukon River and tributaries.

Have you ever wondered why anybody in their right mind wants to be lieutenant governor? Mr. Hold My Coat.

Pat Branco has accepted a job as president and CEO of community hospitals for Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health Systems.

Gov. Sean Parnell has requested a federal disaster declaration for the 2013 spring floods that hit communities like Galena along the Yukon River.

Former longtime athletics administrator Lee Piccard cited "deplorable" behavior by university administrators as the reason he and his wife Idamarie stopped their sponsorship of an athletic scholarship they have funded since Piccard's 1994 retirement.

June 11, 2013, Fairbanks, Alaska Governor Sean Parnell today visited Flint Hills Refinery in North Pole where he signed a package of bills including Senate Bill 86 which extends the State's contract for royalty oil with Flint Hills Refinery.

Flint Hills Resources has a guaranteed supply of state royalty oil for its refinery at North Pole, east of Fairbanks in Alaska's Interior.

The annual governor's summer picnics started in 1959 when Alaska became the 49th state.

Today, Governor Sean Parnell signed legislation to modernize the state's trust and estate laws.

Gov. Sean Parnell signed a bill May 29 committing the state to finance $362.5 million of a proposed $425 million natural gas liquefaction plant on the North Slope as well as facilities in Fairbanks to "re-gasify" and store LNG trucked from the slope and to distribute gas to residential and business customers.

U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell is called on to enact measures that would prohibit oil and gas exploration in an arctic reserve, U.S. House leaders said.

Gun Owners of America continues to battle New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is spending millions of his dollars trying to bring big city gun control to the rest of the nation.

Army and Alaska National Guard officials have completed their investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct at the national missile defense site at Fort Greely, the spokeswoman for Gov. Sean Parnell said.

The state of Mississippi , the Gulf Coast and its residents are direct beneficiaries of British Petroleum by association from employment and oil royalties.

The Municipality of Anchorage is in the market for a project management team to oversee the stalled Port of Anchorage expansion project.

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell has signed legislation that could provide significant relief to diligent oil and gas companies facing the loss of expiring state leases.

A caribou browses along oil transit pipelines on the North Slope in this file photo.