Lisa Murkowski News

Senators Lisa Murkowski , Ron Wyden , Mark Udall , Dean Heller , and 13 other senators introduced legislation on October 29 addressing the critical minerals supply chain.

A spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service says the agency has sent a couple clerks from Juneau to help ease staffing problems at the Skagway post office.

Canadian Defense Minister Rob Nicholson, left, greets U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel at the Halifax International Security Forum in Halifax on Nov. 22. Hagel released the first U.S. Arctic Strategy report at the meeting, and pointed to the 22,000 military personnel in Alaska as proof of American priorities in the region.

That's the big question as the industry braces for the International Pacific Halibut Commission's interim meeting this week in Seattle.

Many of us felt a sense of pride and admiration in scenes of the USS George Washington off the Philippine city of Tacloban after Typhoon Haiyan.

Two leading Democratic legislators from Anchorage on Tuesday demanded that Congress require more disclosure of who is funneling money into congressional races.

In a letter sent to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy Tuesday afternoon, a group of eight senators, including Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., called on the agency to make the information used to draft specifications under the program publicly available.

Dan Sullivan, commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, speaks during a House Natural Resources Committee hearing on rare earths legislation in Washington, D.C., on June 3, 2011.

As the ice-locked Arctic is transformed to ocean, unleashing unprecedented shipping traffic and human activity, what will that mean for U.S. ships and infrastructure? Climate changes in the region have prompted the Department of Defense to release its " Arctic Strategy ," a long-term plan to keep the military's infrastructure in line with the ... (more)

Will Alaska's halibut catches be cut again next year? That's the big question as the industry braces for the International Pacific Halibut Commission's interim meeting this week in Seattle.

The four U.S. senators from Washington and Alaska are seeking to authorize construction of as many as four new heavy-duty icebreakers, vastly expanding the Coast Guard's beleaguered Seattle-based icebreaker fleet.

Dan Sullivan, the former state natural resources commissioner running for U.S. Senate, has announced his core campaign staff -- and highlighted that it was an "All Alaskan Team."

This year was a banner year for marriage equality, but there was also progress in the effort to protect LGBT students and others from bullying in schools.

With the holiday season in full swing, Sen. Lisa Murkowski is using social media to poll those in the Last Frontier about that which they are most thankful for.

The White House nominee for the Interior Department's No. 2 slot told a pair of Senate lawmakers that he's open to discussion about proposals that would share more offshore oil-and-gas royalties with coastal states.

U.S. military commanders had a big problem during World War II, when the Japanese routinely broke their codes, making it easy to predict the actions of American troops.

Governor Sean Parnell objects to Medicaid expansion. Fairbanks suffers a power outage like no other in recent memory.

Republicans and the White House are battling over whether President Obama deserves credit for oil and natural gas production that has surged on his watch.

When posterity looks back on the day Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., changed the Senate's rules and asks what playbook he was running, let the record show it took four votes for the Senate to blow up its rules on nominations.

Ozzie Sheakley hold the Congressional Gold Medal awarded to the Tlingit Tribe for code talking service during World War II.