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2 months ago | 
alaskabeacon.com
Alaska depends on cross-border traffic, and the state is asking both sides to reconsider a looming trade war.
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2 months ago | 
alaskabeacon.com | Amber Lee
An Alaska commentary author writes about NIH discovering and advancing research on a syndrome since the early 2000s.
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Mar 7, 2025 | 
alaskabeacon.com | Yereth Rosen
This year's drastic conditions are part of a trend. Alaska's snow seasons are getting shorter, creating more vulnerability for winter sports.
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Mar 3, 2025 | 
alaskabeacon.com | Jake Goldstein-Street
A student from Tumwater sat out a game because a player from Shelton High School was trans, according to the federal Education Department.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
alaskabeacon.com | James Brooks
Driven by food-shortage fears during the COVID-19 pandemic and inspired by the recommendations of a legislative task force, Alaska lawmakers are considering the creation of a cabinet-level state Department of Agriculture. In January, Gov. Mike Dunleavy issued an executive order that will automatically authorize the department unless state lawmakers specifically vote down the idea in a joint session of the state House and Senate by March 22.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
alaskabeacon.com | James Brooks |Corinne Smith
In her first address to the Alaska Legislature since becoming head of the Alaska Supreme Court, Chief Justice Susan Carney told lawmakers that the court system is failing to deliver justice “expeditiously.”Alaska’s chief justice speaks to the Alaska Legislature each year, and Carney’s speech was the first since a scathing ProPublica-Anchorage Daily News investigation found that the time needed to try Alaska’s most serious felony cases has nearly tripled in the past decade.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
alaskabeacon.com | Yereth Rosen
by Yereth Rosen, Alaska Beacon February 12, 2025 Federal fishery managers took steps on Tuesday to impose new rules to prevent Alaska chum salmon from being scooped into nets used to catch Bering Sea pollock, an industrial-scale fishery that makes up the nation’s largest single-species commercial seafood harvest.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
alaskabeacon.com | James Brooks
In a series of hearings this week, members of the Alaska Legislature have heard emotional testimony about the need for more education funding. As lawmakers consider the idea, it’s becoming increasingly clear within the Capitol that more funding for public schools will come at the expense of the Permanent Fund dividend. “The state of Alaska is probably facing its largest fiscal problem … in 30 years,” said Sen. Lyman Hoffman, D-Bethel and chair of the Senate Finance Committee, on Tuesday.
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
alaskabeacon.com | James Brooks
Alaska’s largest public employee union filed suit against the state of Alaska on Tuesday, saying that state officials have illegally withheld the results of a statewide salary study. In Tuesday’s lawsuit, filed in Anchorage Superior Court, attorneys representing the Alaska State Employees Association allege that the state is concealing results unfavorable to the administration of Gov. Mike Dunleavy and ask for a court order mandating the release of the study.
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
alaskabeacon.com | James Brooks
In an effort to boost awareness of the University of Alaska’s research success, a Fairbanks Republican has proposed that the state name an official state dinosaur. Nineteen other states have official state dinosaurs, said Rep. Will Stapp, R-Fairbanks, who has proposed picking Nanuqsaurus, a carnivorous dinosaur whose remains were discovered in the North Slope Borough in 2006. “It’s a chance to talk about all the great research that UAF does.