There's a $200 million deficit in the current fiscal year, and a much bigger one under most scenarios for the next year.

The Alaska Senate Finance Committee on Monday introduced a bill that would set a new Permanent Fund dividend formula in state ...

Measures to raise new state revenue were introduced in the Alaska Senate on Wednesday, including one that would substantially increase taxes on oil companies. Legislators are facing a widening deficit ...

A handful of Alaskan state-level politicians are opposing Donald Trump’s “restrictive trade measures that would harm the ...

The bill’s sponsor called it a “wonderful compromise.” It boosts the largest part of the state’s public school funding ...

All seven members of the Alaska Senate’s powerful finance committee on Monday proposed rewriting the payment formula for the ...

Lawmakers have broadly expressed concerns that the more-than $250 million school funding boost per year would be unaffordable ...

Leaders in the Alaska House and Senate say they’re deeply concerned about the impacts of federal staff purges and a ...

Alaska Senate leaders signaled Tuesday that they were open to considering new revenue measures this year to help stabilize the state’s looming budget deficit. “We haven’t addressed revenue ...

The legislation prohibits farmed salmon and applies only to finfish, such as trout and Arctic grayling, among other finfish ...

A proposed Alaska Senate resolution to disapprove creating a standalone agriculture department was referred to the House ...

A widely discussed education funding bill, HB 69, was extended to a third straight day of dialogue on the House floor Tuesday, after lengthy discussions and proposed amendments.