A resolution under debate in Juneau seeks to better balance state and commercial interests on a federal council that manages a million square miles of Alaska fishing waters.
With help from Alaska Sens. Begich and Murkowski, STOCK Act passes Senate. But an amendment to ban lawmakers from buying and selling individual stocks fails.
Alaska Congressman Don Young may be 0-for-11 in his attempts to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration, but that won't stop him from trying again.
If the GOP presidential race continues through the convention, as candidates have promised, Alaska's 27 delegates could find themselves disproportionately important.
Natural gas supplies for the majority of Alaska's population comes from just one place: Cook Inlet. If a portion of that system fails, Anchorage could go dark.
Ballooning federal deficits aside, military spending and presence in Alaska accounts for about 10 percent of the state's economy, governor says in press release.
