Recent Stories
- Alaska senators slam Democrats over energy plan
- Saturday, May 17, 2008
- WASHINGTON — Sens. Ted Stevens and Lisa Murkowski on Friday led Republicans in calling on the Senate’s Democratic majority to do more to address the nation’s growing energy crisis, as crude oil neared $128 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
- Feds release updated development plan for Teshekpuk Lake area
- Friday, May 16, 2008
- WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Bureau of Land Management on Friday released an updated plan for oil and natural gas development in the northeast corner of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
- Senators split over support for farm bill
- Friday, May 16, 2008
- WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate approved a $290 billion farm bill Thursday that includes a number of provisions beneficial to Alaska. But the state’s congressional delegation split over whether to support the final version of the bill.
- Bill aims to prevent ‘another Exxon Valdez'
- Friday, May 16, 2008
- The U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee approved a bill Thursday that would require non-oil carrying vessels to have double hulls around their fuel tanks.
- Senate wants U.S. to stop filling national oil reserve; measure to open ANWR fails
- Tuesday, May 13, 2008
- WASHINGTON -- The Senate sent a clear signal to the Bush administration today to halt deliveries of crude oil to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve while the price of oil remains at record-high levels. Republicans also offered an amendment that included language to lift the long-standing ban on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
- Parnell and Young are neck-and-neck in early polling
- Candidates are separated by 3 points, LeDoux trails both
- Monday, May 12, 2008
- The latest poll by the Hays Research Group shows incumbent Don Young with a slight lead over challenger Sean Parnell in the Republican primary for the U.S. House of Representatives.
- Energy package before Senate includes ANWR drilling provisions
- Sunday, May 11, 2008
- WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate is set to consider competing energy packages on Monday or Tuesday, including a Republican proposal that would allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
- Young backtracks on pitch to raise federal gas tax
- Friday, May 9, 2008
- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Don Young says he has no intention of introducing legislation that would increase the amount of federal tax drivers pay at the pump, despite his comments earlier in the week that raising the gasoline tax would curb demand.
- Stevens urges Senate to keep considering stalled aviation safety bill
- Thursday, May 8, 2008
- WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Stevens urged his colleagues in the Senate to resume consideration of a wide-ranging aviation safety bill that stalled Tuesday over Republican objections to unrelated provisions.
- Permanent Fund earns high praise in D.C. meeting
- Sunday, May 4, 2008
- WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund convened a meeting of 25 sovereign wealth funds visited Washington, D.C., last week to discuss the development of a voluntary set of investment guidelines for government-owned funds.
Recent Photos
- Monday, Feb. 25, 2008
- Gov. Sarah Palin talks to Alaska Public Radio Network reporter Joel Southern in Washington, D.C. on Saturday. Palin is in Washington for the annual National Governors Association conference.
