As the state faces an estimated half-billion-dollar deficit between this year and the next, Alaska Senate leaders are reviving options for raising revenue.
Energy & Mining
Juneau’s push to expand renewable power could boost the region’s mines — or cost them
Amid proposals to electrify Juneau’s cruise docks and build a new hydroelectric plant, one of the area’s major mines has a lot to gain. The other has more to lose.
Trump announces ‘joint venture’ with Japan for Alaska LNG Project exports
It isn’t the first time the U.S. has announced project progress through an agreement with another country.
State lawmakers face tough budget choices as faltering oil revenue turns a surplus into a deficit
The state faces a nearly $200 million deficit to maintain essentially status-quo spending, leaving lawmakers with hard choices: reduce spending, raise revenue, cut the dividend, or draw from savings.
Ambler Road project remains in limbo after Army Corps of Engineers waited months to revoke permits
The Pentagon did not give the Army Corps of Engineers a directive to revoke the road’s permitting until five days before President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
‘World’s largest undeveloped gold mine’ faces legal challenges from Canada and Alaska tribal nations
The Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission says the outcome of the Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell project, if it moves forward, “is really anybody’s guess.”