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Alaska Public Media
Lawmakers have the next four months to act on a multitude of issues facing the state, from a possible gas pipeline to the perennial question of how the state will pay its bills.
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If approved, the three-year contract would increase teacher salaries by 5% in each of the first two years and by 4% in the third. -
A large share of the departures so far this term were on the National Security Council staff. -
The Alaskan Independence Party’s leadership formally dissolved the organization in a vote on Dec. 7. -
Nonpartisan analysts say Mary Peltola has a fighting chance but that Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan has the edge in a state President Trump won handily. -
State lawmakers expect a messy session this year as legislators grapple with the state's fiscal future. -
A lengthy agenda awaits lawmakers when they return to the Capitol on Tuesday. -
A lack of enforcement has created frustration among police officers and the public for years, Anchorage Police Chief Sean Case said. -
In the brief window before the rollback, the Fairbanks Native Association said the terminations would impact many of its behavioral health programs. -
Emergency responders will offer people medication to help them make it through a critical window when overdose survivors are at high risk of dying. -
Alaska is set to receive $273 million per year for five years from the program, created as part of President Trump's spending- and tax-cut law passed this summer.
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