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    Federal Politics
    Larry Persily. (Juneau Empire file photo)
    Opinion: Murkowski bought time for a new governor...
    By Larry Persily Wrangell Sentinel • July 10, 2025 2:30 am

    Among all the sections in the so-called Big Beautiful Bill that will drive up the federal deficit, pour billions into…

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    U.S. Rep. Nick Begich III, R-Alaska, address a joint session of the Alaska Legislature on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Empire file photo)
    Opinion: A noncongressman for Alaska?
    By Art Petersen • June 5, 2025 1:30 am

    It’s right to ask whether Nick Begich is a noncongressman for Alaska. The latest evidence of it is his vote…

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    Alaska libraries may see federal funding restored
    By Delcenia Cosman • June 5, 2025 1:30 am

    Alaska State Libraries, Archives and Museums department notified Alaska libraries on June 3 that grant funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services may soon be awarded.

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    Snow blankets Homer City Hall on April 10, 2025, in Homer, Alaska. (Homer News file photo)
    City halts pursuit of building code
    By Delcenia Cosman • June 4, 2025 10:30 am

    The decision was finalized after a federal grant application to adopt the 2021 International Building Code was canceled.

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    Students smile from atop a mountain peak while engaged in KMTA’s Pathfinders program. The program fosters environmental literacy and lifelong learning using an experiential, inquiry-based teaching model and helps expose students to the rich histories, environments and recreation opportunities available in the KMTA. (Photo courtesy of KMTA)
    Kenai Peninsula heritage area faces uncertain future
    By Chloe Pleznac Homer News • March 27, 2025 2:30 am

    A national heritage area that provides education and resources to the Kenai Peninsula is among the local organizations feeling the…

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    Gov. Mike Dunleavy compares Alaska to Mississippi data on poverty, per-pupil education spending, and the 2024 National Assessment of Education Progress fourth grade reading scores during a press conference on Jan. 31, 2025. Alaska is highlighted in yellow, while Mississippi is in red. (Jasz Garrett / Juneau Empire)
    Freeing states from the ‘stranglehold’ of the U.S....
    By Gov. Mike Dunleavy • March 27, 2025 1:30 am

    The USDOE has also been captured by a political ideology that has been harmful to education in America

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    A researcher points out fragments of elodea found in the upper stretches of Crescent Creek caught on tree branches and down logs. (Emily Heale/Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association)
    Local conservation district feels impacts of federal funding...
    By Chloe Pleznac Homer News • March 20, 2025 2:30 am

    Moves by the Trump administration earlier this year to freeze federal grants, loans and aid and to slash workers across…

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    U.S. Rep. Nick Begich holds a telephone town hall on Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (Screenshot from the Facebook page of U.S. Rep. Nick Begich)
    Murkowski, Begich host telephone town halls to address...
    By Chloe Pleznac Homer News • February 21, 2025 8:00 am

    Both events were inaccessible to some, who grew frustrated at technical problems

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    U.S. Rep. Nick Begich III holds a telephone town hall on Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (Screenshot from the Facebook page of U.S. Rep. Nick Begich)
    ‘This is no town hall. This is propaganda’;...
    By Jasz Garrett • February 19, 2025 1:30 am

    Congressman set to deliver his first joint address to the Alaska Legislature on Thursday.

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