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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A U.S. judge sided Thursday with an attorney who alleged she was...

JUNEAU, Alaska — A U.S. judge sided Thursday with an attorney who alleged she was wrongly fired by the state of Alaska over political opinions expressed on a personal blog.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A U.S. judge sided Thursday with an attorney who alleged she was...

A handful of former state employees are fighting Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration saying they lost their jobs because they refused to relinquish their free speech rights to an intolerant leader. The state has agreed to pay an $85,000 settlement to one of them. The American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska announced this week that Keren Lowell, who was barred from her job at the Alaska State Council on the Arts after speaking out publicly in opposition to Dunleavy’s policies, will receive $85,000 for lost wages and other damages pending legislative approval. Under the Apr. 8 agreem...

Alaska court grants access for some to shuttered DB plans Getty Images/iStockphoto The Alaska Supreme Court ruled former employees and some current employees in the state's closed defined benefit plans are eligible for reinstatement in those plans. The court's decision found that the state violated the Alaska Constitution when it repealed the statutes of the $22.1 billion Alaska Public Employees' Retirement System and $10.4 billion Alaska Teachers' Retirement System, allowing for reinstatement in those plans, according to the court's opinion posted on its website. The systems' defined benefit...