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Nov 4, 2024 · Where do Harris and Trump stand on 10 major policy issues? The Alaska Beacon is an independent, nonpartisan news organization focused on connecting Alaskans to their state government. Our journalists fairly and fearlessly report …
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5 days ago · BY: Yereth Rosen - November 8, 2024. Scientists aboard a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker have discovered something unusual in the Arctic Ocean off northern Alaska: a volcano-like structure rising more than 500 meters from the seafloor and possibly emitting gas. The discovery came as scientists from different organizations were aboard the Healy, one ...
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6 days ago · Get 2024 election results as they are reported: district by district, state by state. Real-time results and race calls by Decision Desk HQ. The Alaska Beacon is an independent, nonpartisan news organization focused on connecting Alaskans to their state government. Our journalists fairly and ...
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Nov 1, 2024 · The defense of Alaska oil tax law is seriously misleading. BY: Brad Keithley - November 5, 2024. The recent defense of Senate Bill 21 offered in the Alaska Beacon by the four co-chairs of the 2014 “No on 1” campaign is seriously misleading. Ironically, in their claimed effort “to set the record straight and address falsehoods swirling ...
Alaska-owned corporation approves $750,000 for legal fights over …
2 days ago · Alaska’s state-owned development corporation is advancing plans to explore for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and to build a 300-mile road to a mining district in Northwest Alaska. The board of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority voted unanimously Thursday to spend ...
Biden administration plans new limits on oil leasing in Alaska’s …
6 days ago · Oil companies could buy oil leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but with new restrictions, under a plan released Wednesday. At least 400,000 acres in the refuge’s coastal plain would be available for oil and gas leasing, but only in areas deemed to have high potential for holding hydrocarbons and only under some new environmental restrictions to …
Alaska voters favor minimum wage hike, sick leave mandate, with …
Nov 6, 2024 · If approved by voters, the measure would phase in the minimum wage increase from the current rate of $11.73 an hour to $15 an hour in mid-2027. It would require employers to grant an hour of sick paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked, with a cap of 40 hours for small companies and 56 for larger companies. And it would forbid employers from ...
Alaska House control flips from predominantly Republican …
5 days ago · The Alaska House of Representatives will be governed by a mostly Democratic coalition majority instead of the predominantly Republican one that has controlled it for the past two years. Late Wednesday, members of the new coalition announced that it had secured more than 21 votes, the minimum needed ...
Another 677 votes are counted in Alaska, with four rural precincts ...
6 days ago · The Alaska Division of Elections tallied 677 votes Thursday from nine rural Alaska precincts as Election Day ballot counting nears an end. Four of the state’s 403 precincts remain uncounted. Votes cast on Election Day in Akiachak, Nulato, Savoonga and Atqasuk have not been tallied, according to precinct-level data published by the division.
Early voting in Alaska is off to a fast start and is on pace for a ...
Oct 26, 2024 · On Monday, Republican U.S. House candidate Nick Begich urged supporters to vote early and lock in their votes.. He followed his own advice this week, joining his wife and 19,999 other Alaskans who voted at the state’s early voting locations through Thursday, according to figures published Friday by the Alaska Division of Elections.