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Alaska House approves draft budget with large deficit and estimated $1,400 dividend
The Alaska House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a $6.2 billion draft state operating budget, putting Alaska on ...
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Alaska House votes down symbolic antiabortion budget language, passes amendment against trans care
Debate is continuing this week on proposed changes to the draft of the state operating budget authored by the House of ...
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Alaska House reapproves another missed-deadline bill from last year
Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed five bills, citing the fact that the Alaska Legislature passed them after the constitutional end of the legislative session.
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Alaska lawmakers are divided over state budget, stuck without agreement over dividend, schools
As Alaska faces economic shocks from a tumbling stock market and an unstable oil market, leaders of the state House of ...
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Alaska House advances deficit-fixing budget bill, but there’s a catch
(Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) The Alaska House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bill that seeks to solve a ...
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Alaska House asks for cooldown in Trump-triggered US-Canada trade dispute
A representative noted that Alaska and Canada have social and cultural ties that predate the creation of either country, with Indigenous communities stretching across what is now an international bord ...
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Alaska legislators ask feds to reinstate program that sent money to rural schools
The Alaska House of Representatives is asking Congress to fix a problem with a program that pays money to rural school districts affected by the decline of the timber industry. On Monday ...