Public-sector workers and lawmakers rallied in front of the Capitol this Valentine’s Day to, according to organizers, “show some love” for state and local employees.

Liz Goggin, a social worker with the Veterans Health Administration, took the offer to resign in exchange for pay and benefits through September. Then she learned her position was exempt.

For the first time in Alaska history, the state’s supreme court is majority female. It’s also being led, for just the second time, by a woman.

Natural Resources Commissioner John Boyle said creating a cabinet-level agriculture department would force the state to focus on growing the agriculture sector on a long-term basis.

Republican support for the bill may be scarce because it requires defying a Trump order. He wants to revert to the name Mount McKinley.

Fairbanks Republican Rep. Will Stapp introduced a bill Tuesday asking the Legislature to designate the Nanuqsaurus as Alaska’s state dinosaur.

Carney spent part of her first State of the Judiciary address responding to concerns over delays in court proceedings highlighted in recent news stories from the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica.

Despite “concerns” about both, Murkowski said the cabinet nominees had made key commitments about how they would lead their agencies.

Returning the state's workforce to a pension plan was a major campaign issue for the largely Democratic House and Senate coalition majorities.

“The state of Alaska is probably facing its largest fiscal problem … in 30 years,” said Sen. Lyman Hoffman.

Alaska's senior U.S. senator says Trump is overstepping as he dismantles agencies. She offered no fail-safe way to keep the president in his constitutional lane.

Members of the Alaska Senate voted 19-0 against the proposal.