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Legislators are expected to reduce this year's proposed Permanent Fund dividend in order to resolve a looming deficit.
Alaska Education Commissioner Deena Bishop on Monday sent a letter to school superintendents, urging them to advocate for Gov. Mike Dunleavy's education priorities or risk seeing school funding vetoed ...
A bill passed Monday by the Alaska House seeks to implement an upcoming ballot measure two years ahead of time.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Troopers say two Alaskans are dead and one is injured after a Cessna 207 crashed near Nanwalek, ...
Nine days after Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed a significant increase to the state’s K-12 public school funding formula, the Alaska Senate has approved a compromise education bill that includes a smaller ...
“Fund people not the PFD” was the plea on the sign of a protester pleading for more child care funds outside the Alaska State Capitol on Tuesday. But legislative leaders inside the building say both ...
It comes less than a week after lawmakers failed to override the governor's veto of a $1,000 boost to basic funding.
A technical error will force a Senate revote before the state House gets to vote on the education funding boost and send it ...
The Alaska Legislature is poised to pass a compromise education measure on Wednesday with a $700 boost to the Base Student Allocation, the state's per-student funding formula, lawmakers say. Gov. Mike ...
The Trump administration is planning an Alaska summit with leaders from Japan and South Korea in early June to discuss the ...
Smoking has steadily declined in Alaska over the past decades, evidence that coordinated health campaigns mounted over ...
Anchorage-area student Stephen Gibson introduced the resolution, which states that Alaska schools rely on the BSA as their primary funding source but the Anchorage School District projects a $23 ...