With aligned majorities in the House and Senate, priorities are set to include education funding, public pensions and election reform.

Alaska legislators on Friday unveiled a second batch of measures that were prefiled ahead of Tuesday's start to the legislative session. Eighty-one measures were announced last week. A further 20 bills were unveiled Friday — 10 are set to be introduced in the state Senate and 10 in the House.

Alaska’s 60 legislators come from all corners of the state, and convened in Juneau on Tuesday as the 34th legislative session kicked off.

The 34th Alaska State Legislature gaveled in, electing leadership and setting priorities, including education funding, retirement plans, election updates, and energy challenges.

The 1.6% rejection rate in the November 2024 election is significantly lower than in the 2022 special primary, when high rejection rates in mostly-Native districts led to civil rights lawsuits.

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President-elect Donald Trump will sign an executive order Monday bringing “drill, baby, drill” to Alaska, focused on unleashing its potential for oil and gas development. An incoming White House official previewed the order Monday morning,

Alaska election workers rejected 1,303 absentee ballots in the November election, in many cases because they were missing a witness signature, according to data obtained by the Anchorage Daily News. Election workers rejected 512 ballots because of “improper or insufficient witnessing” — a requirement that some lawmakers say is unnecessary.

The iconic Anchorage neighborhood has seen plenty of changes in the past eight decades and some consider it more of an attitude than a place.

The order could open up drilling in areas that the Biden administration sought to preserve, including in Alaska and off the East Coast.

The action follows similar moves by other Republican governors and the Republican U.S. Speaker of the House ahead of Inauguration Day.

What could Donald Trump’s re-election mean for climate protection in the Arctic? That was a central question to U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski at the Arctic Circle Assembly, which took place in Reykjavík, Iceland,