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Mayor LaFrance wants the Assembly to pause other revenue proposals, including her 3% sales tax, to focus on the $12 million education tax levy.
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The utility used three times more natural gas than expected in December. -
The mayor of South Korea’s second-largest city visited Nome last week. -
The 2026 Anchorage election is April 7, with six Assembly seats and two school board seats up for grabs. -
The proposal from Rep. Sara Hannan, D-Juneau, was one of 26 prefiled bills revealed Friday, ahead of the 2026 legislative session. -
Avalanche experts say adding sensors that measure wind, solar radiation and snowpack temperatures could help refine avalanche risk assessments for downtown Juneau neighborhoods. -
A Justice Department probe of the Federal Reserve marks the latest escalation in the Trump administration's effort to bend the independent central bank to the president's will. -
The Bogus Creek 150 sled dog race has been postponed due to extreme cold weather conditions, a stark contrast to the warm conditions last year. -
Some of Alaska's largest pollock processors are abandoning a foreign worker visa program that once supplied up to half their workforce, citing rising costs and uncertainty under stricter immigration policies. -
UAF presented to the community its intention to sell the secondary campus building at a town hall meeting last month. -
The Alaska Native Medical Center brought the holiday to their primary care center for patients who couldn't gather with family or in church.
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