With strains on both revenue projections and their relationship with the governor, lawmakers in the majority say they are ...

Lawmakers have a narrow window to override the SB 113 veto and take a real step toward fiscal stability and stronger schools.

Sen. Loki Tobin, D-Anchorage, speaks in the Alaska Senate on Monday, April 28, 2025. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) Alaska’s public schools might get more money, after all. Nine days after Gov.

The Alaska Senate is planning to vote Monday on a new education funding bill, even as Gov. Dunleavy is calling for changes. That’s after a state Senate committee approved a new version of a bill ...

Senate Finance Committee Co-Chair Sen. Bert Stedman, R-Sitka, listens to testimony from Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities Commissioner Ryan Anderson on Feb. 28, 2024. (Eric ...

A powerful Alaska Senate committee is considering a draft of Alaska’s state operating budget that would cut more than $200 million from a version adopted earlier this month by the state House. The ...

Nearly two weeks after Election Day, Sen. Mark Begich (D-AK) conceded the Alaska Senate race Monday to his Republican challenger Dan Sullivan. Begich issued a statement Monday saying that he had ...

Four days before the scheduled end of the Alaska Legislature’s regular session, a Senate committee has proposed a major increase in the state’s property tax exemption for disabled veterans, widows and ...

Alaska Republican U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (Alaska Beacon file photos) The U.S. Senate continued nonstop debate on its major policy and budget bill Monday, as provisions affecting ...

The fate of President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda was in Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s hands – and she used that leverage to force a series of changes that will deliver more federal dollars to her ...

Alaska Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski advanced from her primary along with Kelly Tshibaka, her GOP rival endorsed by former President Donald Trump, while another Trump-backed candidate, ...