Sen. Dan Sullivan lifted his hold, a few hours after Politico reported that he was blocking the confirmation to pressure the Navy to re-open the Adak base.
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The free program has been adopted by thousands of schools nationwide.
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The show is part of the annual Arctic Encounters Summit and transformed the Anchorage Museum into a runway, showcasing Indigenous artists, designers and models.
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Lawmakers only budgeted $40 million of the nearly $800 million that districts say is needed to fix and maintain schools to keep them safe and operating. Gov. Mike Dunleavy then vetoed more than a third of that.
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The session agenda includes policy proposals, but lawmakers plan to keep it brief.
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It's unclear precisely how much the special session will cost, but past special sessions have run in the tens of thousands per day.
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State lawmakers question if the expense of the Governor's upcoming special session is worth it.
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Spokeswoman Julie Hasquet said Chugach Electric has received dozens of calls in the last week from members who say they’ve been told they need to pay immediately, or will lose service.
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It started with the goal of teaching kids traditions their elders feared would disappear. Today, some of those kids are becoming instructors.
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About a month after announcing that it would stop sharing data that hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on, the Navy now says it will continue distributing it.
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Dave Snider, Warning Coordinator with the Tsunami Warning Center, says Alaska got lucky after the magnitude 8.8 earthquake Tuesday in Russia's Kamchatka region.
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