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Anchorage mayor-elect announces homelessness, budget transition team leaders Daniella Rivera © Provided by Anchorage KTUU-TV Dave Bronson will take office on July 1. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Anchorage Mayor-elect Dave Bronson announced his picks to lead his homelessness and budget review teams on Tuesday, a month before he is set to take office on July 1. Bronson named Cheryl Frasca as the leader of his team reviewing the municipality’s budget and Dr. John Morris as the l...

Having become a world leader in the implementation of microgrids for the distributed supply of electricity, Alaska has an opportunity to capitalize on that expertise, using its first mover status to benefit from the economics of exporting its capabilities, Gwen Holdman, director of the Alaska Center...

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canadas oil and gas industry DEC finalizes Julius R. permit renewal, including produced water Kristen Nelson Petroleum News Furie Operating Alaska is one step closer to being able to produce Sterling formation gas at its Kitchen Lights unit in Cook Inlet. On Feb. 12 the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation released an Alaska Pollutant Discharge Elimination System proposed final order for the Julius R. Platform....     [additional news sub...

  Running for office is one of the hardest things I have ever done. Running is even harder than losing reelection, and now I have done both. With that, I would like to congratulate and thank the 60 legislators about to convene in Juneau and the governor for his work preparing a budget in these challenging times, and for being transparent in laying out the long-term cost of his proposals. Each lawmaker is about to spend some intense time negotiating with 59 other legislators and the governor. ...

Godspeed to our elected officials as they face the critical decisions that lie ahead.

Wed, 12/23/2020 - 9:08am Gov. Mike Dunleavy prioritized injecting money into a battered economy over solving the state’s ever-worsening structural fiscal problems in his 2022 fiscal year budget but that doesn’t mean he didn’t attempt to save the state some money. The administration wants to split nearly $50 million in unrestricted CARES Act funds into $35 million towards the state’s annual Medicaid payment and $14.6 million for general Department of Transportation funding as well as uti...