GOP Leaders Criticized for Enabling ‘White Supremacy’ After Buffalo Shooting
May 16 By Kaia Hubbard Republican House leaders are under criticism in the aftermath of a Buffalo shooting over the weekend that officials called a racist attack by a gunman who killed 10 people and wounded three after reportedly writing and sharing a document online…
Alaska National Guard soldiers battle to become Best Warrior
May 14 By Bill Roth Thirteen soldiers from the Alaska National Guard are battling to earn the title of Best Warrior by competing in a range of events. That includes a 7.5-mile ruck march, marksmanship contest, obstacle course, Army combat fitness test, soldier skills test,…
Pence Defies Trump With Support of Brian Kemp for Georgia Governor
May 13 By Susan Milligan In a bold rebuke of his former White House partner, Mike Pence will headline an election-eve rally for Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, the man former President Donald Trump has targeted for defeat after the governor’s refusal to help Trump overturn…
«The Far East — Winter of Discovery» Business forum
May 12 By Steven Brooks Indigenous peoples are actively involved in the development of tourism in Kamchatka, the Far East and the Arctic. As part of «The Beringia» holiday, Kamchatka hosted «The Far East — Winter of Discovery» Business Forum, which was attended by representatives…
Senate passes budget with $5,500 cash payments to Alaskans that could drain state savings
May 11 By Iris Samuels The Alaska Senate on Tuesday approved a budget that would require the state to dip into savings to cover $5,500 in cash payments to Alaskans, even as the state faces a revenue windfall due to high oil prices. The ballooned…
Amid Flagging Poll Numbers, Biden Tells Dems It’s Us vs. Them
May 10 By Susan Milligan For more than a year, President Joe Biden acted like former President Donald Trump didn’t exist. Biden wanted to move on and move past the drama and divisiveness of his predecessor’s term, instead laying out what he had hoped would…
Memorable event was held in Fairbanks
May 10 By Julia O’Malley On May 9, in the city of Fairbanks in Griffin Park, flowers were laid at the monument to Soviet and American pilots who ferried planes under the Lend-Lease Program from the USA to the USSR during the Second World War….
Alaska Senate votes for energy payment on top of dividend
May 9 The Alaska Senate voted Monday for a $1,300 “energy relief” payment in addition to a dividend payment for residents this year. The energy payment passed 12-7 as an amendment to the state budget package that senators were debating. The budget bill as it…
Alaskans are already voting in the special U.S. House race. But the campaign is only just starting.
May 8 By Nathaniel Herz Ana Hoffman is a corporate executive, tribal leader and church volunteer, with no shortage of stuff to do in this Southwest Alaska hub town of 6,500. But as ballots began going out last week for an unprecedented, by-mail, 48-person special…
Q&A: How to vote in Alaska’s first all-mail election
May 7 By Iris Samuels More than a half a million ballots were mailed to Alaska voters on April 27. As of Friday, just under 8,000 ballots had been returned to the Division of Elections. The special election for Alaska’s lone U.S. House seat is…
Alaska lawmakers struggle with debate over Permanent Fund dividend
May 6 By Becky Bohrer State lawmakers are running out of time this session to pass legislation aimed at resolving the annual debate over what size dividend should be paid to residents from the Alaska Permanent Fund. Legislative leaders have said they see resolving the…
Could Overturning Roe v. Wade Backfire for Republicans?
May 5 By Susan Milligan Imperiled Democrats have a message for Republicans who have been campaigning for decades on the promise to ban abortion: be careful what you wish for. The leak of the draft Supreme Court decision vacating the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling…