The Biden administration justified major crackdowns on fossil fuel and mineral development in Alaska by playing up its ...

Alaska’s elections chief defended her division’s management of the 2024 elections at a legislative hearing last week, but she ...

Congressman-elect Nick Begich III (R-Alaska) will be sworn in on Jan. 3, 2025, along with other newly-elected members of ...

2024 also brought an activist campaign to Southwest, an IT meltdown that stranded hundreds of thousands of Delta travelers ...

In the weeks after Ballot Measure 1 passed by a hefty margin, many Alaska employers are beginning to understand its impacts. The measure, effective July 1, will raise the minimum wage and establish ...

President-elect Trump pledged to rename Denali back to Mount McKinley, catching heat from Alaskan lawmakers, including in his ...

Alaska’s U.S. senators voted in favor of a bill that is set to increase Social Security benefits for thousands of the state’s ...

Democracy Unfiltered. The tagline reflects what’s new in America in 2025: A new presidency, a new Congress, a new moment in ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump plans to rename Alaska's Denali, its tallest mountain, back to Mount McKinley, after the 25th U.S. president. This follows the 2015 decision by President Obama to ...

A new 20-month Senate investigation into ethical conflicts and legal violations at the Supreme Court has uncovered and underscored a raft of dubious behavior by justices both living — and dead.

The bill would repeal benefit reductions affecting people who spent part of their career working for an employer not ...

Meanwhile, from the other news covered by the Empire, these are the 10 strangest stories of 2024 in no particular order.