Steve Kirch

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Workers in Alaska can anticipate two pay raises in 2025, along with a new benefit that was not available in 2024, as a result of two ballot measures passed over the last ten years.

An Anchorage ordinance will be going into effect in 2025, and Assembly members hope the new law will decrease the number of alcohol-related fatalities and accidents in the municipality.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The House Subcommittee of the Select Committee on Legislative Ethics has determined that further corrective action is unnecessary regarding an ethics complaint involving Rep. Jamie Allard, R-Eagle River.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - On Friday in Washington, D.C., Republican Nick Begich was sworn in as Alaska’s U.S. representative, but not before being inundated with some of the divisive politics House Republicans have dealt with regarding the House Speaker position.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - On Friday in Washington, D.C., Republican Nick Begich was sworn in as Alaska's U.S. representative, but not before being inundated with some of the divisive politics House Republicans have dealt with regarding the House Speaker position.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) -Alaska’s congressional delegation is responding on Monday — some members more vocally than others — to the White House’s announcement that President Joe Biden will ban new offshore oil and gas drilling along most of the U.S. coastline.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) -Alaska's congressional delegation is responding on Monday — some members more vocally than others — to the White House's announcement that President Joe Biden will ban new offshore oil and gas drilling along most of the U.S. coastline.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Comments are pouring in after the Department of the Interior announced that the Bureau of Land Management received no bids on 400,000 acres of land in the second congressionally mandated oil and gas lease sale for the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Arctic Refuge).

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Alaska’s congressional delegation is voicing support for a bill that they say will help strengthen U.S. border policy regarding illegal immigration and curb the flow of illicit drugs entering Alaska.

From energy royalty relief and holding the legislative session in Anchorage to abortion and election reform, the Alaska State Legislature has filed its first batch of prefiled bills.