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The Eclipse Fragrance, Craft, Food and Wine Fair with over 50 vendors is being held Saturday, Sunday and Monday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at Pine Street Arena, Potsdam. The event, has face painting Saturday …

A bill that proposes a statewide 6% tax on short-term hotel and lodgings received its first hearing in the Alaska House Community and Regional Affairs Committee Tuesday.

Scott McCrea, president and CEO of Explore Fairbanks, said his board of directors hasn’t taken an official position on HB 220 due to an unlikely chance of it passing.

Three rural non-Republican members frequently diverge from the state's farthest-north Republican, who was appointed by Gov. Dunleavy.

A presentation about a jump in the number of inmate deaths in state custody that included proposals for solutions was abruptly canceled in an Alaska legislative committee on Tuesday morning.

A presentation about a jump in the number of inmate deaths in state custody that included proposals for solutions was abruptly canceled in an Alaska legislative committee on Tuesday morning. In a vote that fell along party lines, Republican members of the House Community and Regional Affairs Committee voted to cancel the talk prepared by […] The post Republican lawmakers shut down legislative hearing about deaths in Alaska prisons appeared first on Alaska Beacon.

A Richmond man will serve 14 years in prison for a November 2022 shooting in Big Stone Gap.

Rural Alaska schools may get additional state and federal funding for faster internet despite Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a multipart education bill this week. Early Thursday morning, the Alaska House of Representatives voted 36-4 to advance House Bill 193, which offers rural schools as much as $39.4 million in state aid to match federal […]

The Alaska House of Representatives unexpectedly moved on Friday to raise the state’s age of sexual consent from 16 to 18.

The Alaska House of Representatives unexpectedly moved on Friday to raise the state’s age of sexual consent from 16 to 18.