Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Liz Ruskin is the Washington, D.C., correspondent at Alaska Public Media. Reach her at lruskin@alaskapublic.org. Read more about Liz here.
Defund the police? Murkowski says no. But she says they don’t need bayonets.
Sen. Murkowski is against defunding police, but she wouldn’t mind disarming them of weapons of war.
Alaska’s economy is headed for an ‘income cliff’ at end of July
Economists say $600 weekly payments to the unemployed are greasing the gears of the local economy. Those payments are set to end in less than a month.
Court rules Native corporations can receive CARES Act money intended for tribes
A U.S. District Court judge has ruled that Alaska Native corporations are eligible for part of the $8 billion intended to help tribes respond to the coronavirus pandemic.
Alaska Native vets from the Vietnam War era may lay claim to 160 acres
The Bureau of Land Management is trying to reach some 2,200 Alaska Native veterans to let them know they can lay claim to 160 acres apiece.
Got symptoms? In Anchorage, you can now get a COVID drive-thru test without a note from your doctor.
“At this time, we don't have any concern" about demand outstripping supplies, says city Health Department Director Natasha Pineda.
State employees urge passage of another big coronavirus relief bill
The federal bill ASEA wants includes hazard pay for essential workers, and money for state and local governments
Murkowski praises DACA decision and revisits her controversial vote on impeachment witnesses
Sen. Murkowski cheered the continued protection for undocumented people brought to the U.S. as children.
Anchorage Police chief says his department is committed to ‘dignity and respect’
Chief Justin Doll says APD officers are taught to intervene if a colleague is out of bounds, and to report fellow officers for any misconduct they witness.
Developers of proposed Pebble Mine offer dividends to everyone in Bristol Bay, hotbed of mine opposition
Register now, the company says, and payments will begin with construction. "Shameless" says one leading opponent.
Your questions about traveling through Canada, answered
We’ve had several questions from listeners about whether they can cross the Canadian border to go to or from Alaska. Alaska Public Media’s Liz Ruskin looked into it and has a few answers.
Interior Department appointee violated ethics pledge, IG finds
The Inspector General's report doesn’t include names, but it appears to be about Steve Wackowski, the top Alaska advisor at Interior.
Murkowski’s Trump ‘struggle’: Her goals for Alaska vs. her values
She likes what he does but not what he says.
Trump advances icebreaker plan
President Trump is calling on his administration to get a fleet of new icebreakers on the water by 2029.
How can Alaskans go back to the office, and what’s lost if we don’t?
Can the corner office-dwellers let their masks down if the cubicle workers can't? Doing office in the coronavirus age raises so many questions.
As case counts rise, Anchorage mayor calls for renewed ‘personal responsibility’ to keep city safe
The virus is spreading within the community, with one cluster of 12 cases centered on a single household.
Trump vows to campaign for any Murkowski challenger with ‘a pulse’ after she echoes general’s denouncement
Alaska's senior U.S. senator today endorsed a blistering denouncement of President Trump, praised political courage and yet suggested she might still support Trump.
Another judge tosses land swap for King Cove road
A U.S. District Court judge has again thrown out a land exchange intended to allow a road for King Cove through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.
Alaska’s congressman missed votes last week. He could’ve voted remotely but he doesn’t believe in it.
Rep. Don Young missed all six votes in the House last week. He could've voted by proxy, but he's suing to stop the practice.
In showdown with Army Corps of Engineers over Pebble Mine, EPA blinks
The U.S. EPA has backed down from a confrontation with the Army Corps of Engineers over the proposed Pebble Mine
New fiber-optic line connects Alaska to Lower 48 by land
MTA has completed building Alaska’s first fiber-optic connection to the Lower 48 that does not involve an undersea cable.