Kris Cheng waves at passing cars with other protesters at a protest outside Senator Dan Sullivan’s office on June 27, 2025. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO) Dozens of Juneau residents gathered outside U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan’s office Friday to implore him to …
A Senate GOP provision that would block Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood will remain in the massive tax and spending bill after the Senate parliamentarian on Monday advised the language does not violate the chamber’s Byrd Rule. The ruling from …
Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah announced over the weekend he was removing a provision from the Senate's "big, beautiful bill" that would allow the sale of hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands for affordable housing and …
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. In today’s edition, our intrepid team on …
On Sunday afternoon, Theater Alaska concluded a weekend of performances of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” at the Treadwell Mine Office Building. In the next two weeks, the play will be moving to a variety of locations around Juneau. Enrique Bravo …
Senators on Monday began offering amendments to President Donald Trump's megabill, following a weekend of tense negotiations to try to get the president's second-term domestic priorities through the upper chamber. The process, called a "vote-a …
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By BOB GRIFFIN Governor Dunleavy was right to propose direct bonus payments to teachers. He understands that most of the money we dedicate to K-12 gets intercepted before it makes it to classroom teachers. In the 2023-24 school year, Alaska spent $576 …
This story was originally published by Dermot Cole, Reporting from Alaska. The biggest two of the six Alaska kickbacks granted to Sen. Lisa Murkowski to buy her vote on the GOP/Trump big tax scam cannot be approved with a simple majority vote, the …
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