Mr. Edgmon, an independent, is speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives and lives in Dillingham. Ms. Giessel, a Republican, is the majority leader for the Alaska Senate Bipartisan Coalition and ...

Lawmakers have five days at the start of a session to consider veto overrides. The Senate president called Dunleavy's request ...

House Speaker Bryce Edgmon and Senate Majority Leader Cathy Giessel say the 'one big beautiful bill' approaching a Senate ...

The GOP senator knew the legislation would hurt her constituents and had a chance to tank the whole thing, but she voted to ...

Some legislators said they saw the call as an attempt to prevent lawmakers from overriding the governor’s June vetoes, ...

Bipartisan caucus leaders in the Alaska Legislature said the state “cannot survive this bill” while Gov. Mike Dunleavy urged ...

Alaska, left, and Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., right, on Tuesday. (Mariam Zuhaib/AP) Alaska’s senior U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski ...

Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Wednesday called a special session of the Alaska Legislature, limited to his own proposals for ...

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Wednesday called for a special session to begin in Juneau next month on the topic of enacting education reforms and creating a new agriculture department. The one-month ...

After nearly 40 years in Alaska’s state Capitol, Sen. Lyman Hoffman is calling it quits. On Wednesday, the Bethel Democrat ...

Provisions that would have shielded the state from some health care and food stamp cuts appear to be on the path to failure.