Three judges should sit on Alaska’s U.S. District Court. For the past year it's had just one. Alaska's senators haven't been able to agree on a selection process.

"When somebody ... basically tells other attorneys that you should disregard the law —That, to me, is disqualifying," Sen. Lisa Murkowski says. Emil Bove was confirmed anyway.

The Environmental Protection Agency is sticking with its veto of the proposed Pebble Mine project in southwest Alaska.

The Trump administration wants to reverse a 2009 EPA finding that greenhouse gases endanger people. The finding is the basis for much of the United States' climate change regulations.

The state Department of Health told the Anchorage Daily News that Alaska could lose up to $500 million in annual Medicaid spending. It now says that estimate was wrong.

Congress voted to claw back federal funding to public media. Some of those hit hardest include community radio stations in areas that voted for the president.

The Anchorage School District, the Kuspuk School District and the Fairbanks North Star Borough are part of a suit seeking to force the Trump administration to distribute $6.8 billion in frozen funds.

The fate of Alaska’s smaller public radio stations is in doubt after Congress passed a bill to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

The money pays for programs including after-school activites, student supplies and preschools, Mat-Su district officials said.

Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins were the only GOP senators to vote against the bill to claw back funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and foreign aid. It goes next to the House.

The Senate voted to approve the $9 billion rescission package early Thursday.

The Senate voted by a razor-thin margin late Tuesday to advance debate on a package of funding cuts requested by President Trump that would claw back $1.1 billion previously allocated to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.