Sen. Dan Sullivan has been calling the One Big Beautiful Bill the “Alaska Opportunity Act.” The legislation is laden with the promise of new oil and gas lease sales, funds for new Coast Guard cutters and icebreakers, and more. Yet polling shows that Alaskans remain skeptical.
This is the second time that a group has successfully gathered the signatures required to put the question of repealing Alaska’s voting system on the ballot.
The high court will soon consider whether or not it will review a lower court’s decision in a case involving subsistence fishing that pits the state of Alaska against the federal government and Alaska Natives.
A judge has ordered the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to pay more than $100,000 in attorney’s fees to a retired Anchorage lawyer and wildlife advocate who successfully sued the state over a wolf-killing policy on the southern Kenai Peninsula.
Both new members are expected to join the 19-member GOP minority caucus. The seats are filled as lawmakers prepare to convene in Juneau for a legislative session that begins Jan. 20.
