Eric Stone
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Alaska Public Media
The COVID pandemic, when oil prices went negative for a day, is the only time in the index’s nearly 20-year history when prices were more volatile than they are right now.
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Gulf states are major fertilizer producers, and the war with Iran has triggered a 25% price hike just as struggling U.S. farmers are planting corn. -
About 10% of property owners saw a sizable increase in their taxes after the city changed the way it assessed property. -
Lawmakers in support of a measure to strengthen the state’s corporate income tax on the oil and gas industry said it was essential for boosting state revenues -
The screenshots were sent in an attempt to educate voters on the personal views of the opponent. -
Unstable conditions have been reported in other parts of Alaska, too, including near Girdwood and Turnagain Pass. -
Attorneys provided closing arguments Tuesday afternoon in the retrial for 25-year-old Dustin Ruckman. -
The jury ordered the companies to pay $6 million in damages over defective design. The landmark verdict may influence the outcome of 2,000 other pending lawsuits. -
The bill is a bipartisan compromise many years in the making and would make a variety of changes to the way Alaskans vote. -
Staff at the Army Corps said in a press briefing that they never backed out of a long-term solution, and they’re working on the temporary levee and an intermediate solution in the meantime. -
The Mat-Su assessment office received 421 formal appeals this year, up from 148 filed last year.
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