A lengthy agenda awaits lawmakers when they return to the Capitol on Tuesday.
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Alaska’s first on-site addiction treatment for those who overdose launches with pilot programs
Emergency responders will offer people medication to help them make it through a critical window when overdose survivors are at high risk of dying.
Alaska kicks off billion-dollar effort to ‘transform’ rural health care
Alaska is set to receive $273 million per year for five years from the program, created as part of President Trump’s spending- and tax-cut law passed this summer.
Alaska Appeals Court takes up American Samoa-born woman’s voter misconduct case
Like other U.S. nationals who are not full U.S. citizens, Tupe Smith of Whittier thought she could vote in local elections but not presidential elections. A key argument in her case is whether she intentionally submitted false voter registration forms.
Murkowski wants to reassure Denmark, but it’s not clear Congress is with her
President Trump continues to talk about taking Greenland, a territory of Denmark. Congress hasn’t shown it’s willing to rein in his military ambitions.
The freshmen: Two new Mat-Su Republicans prepare for their first session
Gov. Mike Dunleavy appointed Mat-Su Republicans Steve St. Clair and Garret Nelson to fill two open seats in the state House late last year.