The House is set to vote in the coming days on whether to agree to changes made to the spending plan by the Senate, which include a reduction in the size of the PFD from the previous figure of $1,500 per eligible Alaskan.
A largely similar elections bill introduced by the governor this week includes a new signature verification process and delays implementation until after the November general election.
Leaders of villages battered by last fall’s catastrophic Western Alaska storm are pushing the state's U.S. senators to embrace proposals to relocate their communities to higher ground, saying they’ve had little influence in developing response plans.
Key members of the Senate were skeptical that they’ll be able to finalize a bill to support the Alaska LNG megaproject before the session ends later this month.
The ruling by an Anchorage Superior Court judge clears the way for the state Department of Fish and Game to kill large numbers of bears in Southwest Alaska.
