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Alaska Senate passes capital budget with focus on school maintenance and housing
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoApr. 13—JUNEAU — The Alaska Senate advanced the $3.9 billion capital budget, which has an emphasis on school maintenance and housing, to the House on Friday. The capital budget is used to fund ...
Facing deadline, Alaska House advances bill to increase rural school internet speeds
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 1 month agoMar. 21—JUNEAU — The Alaska House early Thursday advanced legislation to increase internet speeds at schools, primarily in rural Alaska. House Bill 193 would allow eligible schools to apply ...
As support streams in, Golovin still accounting for all that's been lost
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSep. 25—Golovin Storm GOLOVIN — Nothing looks quite right in the low part of Golovin. Not the homes, not the land or roads, and not the water still pooled up like brackish ponds in people's ...
As storm-battered Western Alaska takes stock of damage and begins cleanup, officials pledge help
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSep. 20—Nome Storm NOME — Up and down Alaska's Bering Sea coast, the scope of destruction left by a historic storm is becoming clear. The remnants of a Pacific typhoon pummeled roughly 1,000 ...
Alaska lawmakers fail to override Gov. Dunleavy's education funding veto
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 3 months agoJan. 19—JUNEAU — The Alaska Legislature failed to muster enough support to override the governor's veto of extra school funding approved by the Legislature last year. With schools across Alaska ...
Dunleavy selects Republican to succeed outgoing independent member of Alaska House
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 6 months agoNov. 8—Thomas Baker, a Republican from Kotzebue, was chosen Wednesday by Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy to replace independent state Rep. Josiah Patkotak in the Alaska House, after Patkotak was elected ...