Published: Apr. 19, 2024 at 9:14 AM AKDT|Updated: 6 hours ago
he Biden administration said Friday it will restrict new oil and gas leasing on 13 million acres (5.3 million hectares) of a federal petroleum reserve in Alaska to help protect wildlife such as caribou and polar bears as the Arctic continues to warm.
At a special meeting of the Anchorage Assembly, assembly members discussed an ordinance to provide designated parking areas for those experiencing homelessness and living out of their vehicles before its passage in a vote of 8-1.
Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor, whose wife has publicly written about using state-funded reimbursements to send their children to private school under the state’s homeschool correspondence program, said Thursday he did not have a conflict of interest overseeing a planned appeal a court ruling that could stop similar payments to …