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The Arctic Sounder - Serving the Northwest Arctic and the North Slope

The Arctic Sounder - Serving the Northwest Arctic and the North Slope

Juneau, Alaska (Alaska Beacon) - Rep. Josiah Patkotak says he’s running to be the next mayor of the North Slope Borough in an Oct. 3 local election

The move by Rep. Josiah Patkotak of Utqiagvik was made public in a Monday filing with the Alaska Public Offices Commission.

Patkotak says he’s running to be the next mayor of the North Slope Borough.

A bill that would buy out commercial fishermen from the beleaguered Upper Cook Inlet fishery is again stalled in the Alaska Legislature. Senate Bill 82, sponsored by Sen. Jesse Bjorkman, R-Nikiski, would create a buyout program for commercial setnet fishermen on the east side of Cook Inlet. The approximately 450 setnetters there have been increasingly struggling economically

The House agreed to a spending plan advanced by the Senate after the Senate amended its budget to include $34 million in additional capital projects requested by House majority members.

The town of Tanana is seeking to remove its status as a first-class city in order to transfer control of the local school.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Today, the Alaska State Senate passed Senate Bill 52 to increase education funding by $175 million for Alaska’s public schools and correspondence programs.

State Sen. Click Bishop remembers his first paycheck as a teenager in Fairbanks in the early 1970s. His boss explained the $10 deduction for the state’s so-called school head tax.