JUNEAU — Efforts in both the House and Senate to change Alaska’s voting laws before the 2024 election appeared foiled on Monday, with two days to go until the end of the legislative session ...

The Alaska Legislature on Friday passed a major increase to K-12 education funding, worth $1,000 in the state’s per-student funding formula. Gov. Mike Dunleavy has indicated he will veto the ...

House Bill 35, passed by the Legislature, would change that by instituting rules for tablet use. The bill was encouraged as a means of rehabilitation and education for people in Alaska’s prisons ...

Alaska’s legislative session ended last month, and Gov. Mike Dunleavy has yet to consider most of the 31 bills passed by both House and Senate this spring. ... Before the change, ...

The leader of the House Republican minority caucus, Rep. Mia Costello, R-Anchorage, says it may be in the governor's interest ...

The Alaska Legislature passed Senate Bill 9 in 2022 after a decade of attempts to modernize ... Dec. 27—Major changes to Alaska's alcohol industry will come into effect Monday, ...

The Legislature has a constitutional duty to address these vetoes. Article II, Section 16 of the Alaska Constitution states ...

The Alaska legislature started business earlier this week and there is a lot to contend with as the state grapples with perennial concerns such as public safety, outmigration of working age ...

With school funding still uncertain, and less than a month to go in the Alaska legislative session, the Senate Finance ...

Alaska is one of the last states to forbid prison inmates from regularly using tablet computers. House Bill 35, passed by the Legislature, would change that by instituting rules for tablet use.

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See AS 18.80.200, et seq. The legislation would confirm that “gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation” are included in Alaska’s prohibition of gender discrimination.