Gov. Mike Dunleavy promised last week to replace lost federal food assistance with state aid to 66,000 Alaskans. However, the director of the state's Division of Public Assistance said today that no state funds had been issued to SNAP recipients due to constantly shifting federal guidance.
With so many names in the race, donors who have given money to political hopefuls in the past are remaining on the sidelines, waiting for the field to narrow, candidates for governor say.
The Trump administration outlined its plans to auction 1 million acres of federal offshore territory in what it has called the “Big Beautiful Cook Inlet Oil and Gas Lease Sale.” (via Alaska Beacon)
After NOAA cut funding to the lab that’s been monitoring seismic activity for more than 25 years, nine stations tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes for the agency will go offline by the end of the month.
Monday’s lawsuit is the latest in an ongoing legal fight over what the state Department of Fish and Game has cast as an effort to restore the Mulchatna caribou herd in Southwestern Alaska.
