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Oct 31, 2024 · BY: Yereth Rosen - October 29, 2024. Fewer Alaska babies were born in 2023 than in previous years, but there were also fewer deaths in the state than in prior years, when the COVID-19 pandemic was still sweeping through the nation, said a report issued by the state Department of Health. Alaska’s population total remained almost unchanged in ...
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2 days ago · Get 2024 election results as they are reported: district by district, state by state. Real-time results and race calls by Decision Desk HQ. The Alaska Beacon is an independent, nonpartisan news organization focused on connecting Alaskans to their state government. Our journalists fairly and ...
Alaska Senate’s bipartisan supermajority loses at least two …
2 days ago · Two Republican members of the Alaska Senate’s bipartisan supermajority are on course to be replaced by more conservative Republicans, according to preliminary election results published through 3 a.m. Wednesday morning With 12 of 12 precincts reporting in Senate District N, former Matanuska ...
Alaska voters favor minimum wage hike, sick leave mandate, with …
2 days ago · If approved by voters, the measure would phase in the minimum wage increase from the current rate of $11.73 an hour to $15 an hour in mid-2027. It would require employers to grant an hour of sick paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked, with a cap of 40 hours for small companies and 56 for larger companies. And it would forbid employers from ...
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Oct 29, 2024 · The defense of Alaska oil tax law is seriously misleading. BY: Brad Keithley - November 5, 2024. The recent defense of Senate Bill 21 offered in the Alaska Beacon by the four co-chairs of the 2014 “No on 1” campaign is seriously misleading. Ironically, in their claimed effort “to set the record straight and address falsehoods swirling ...
Data centers, which require massive amounts of energy and few …
4 days ago · Gov. Mike Dunleavy is courting major tech companies to establish data centers in Alaska at a time when the state is already facing an impending electricity crisis. The data centers, which are springing up throughout the Lower 48 states, require massive amounts of energy and water. Dunleavy has ...
Alaska Republicans lose two seats in state House, increasing odds …
2 days ago · The Alaska House of Representatives will have two fewer Republicans, according to preliminary election results published by the Alaska Division of Elections after polls closed on Election Day. As of 3 a.m. Wednesday, the House was poised to stand at 20 Republicans, 14 Democrats and six independents ...
No leaders change as 1,500 more ballots are added to Alaska’s …
2 days ago · Alaska elections officials added about 1,500 more votes to the state’s election total on Wednesday as workers continued to count ballots from Election Day. That work remained unfinished by the end of the day, with some precincts still unreported. In addition, tens of thousands of votes cast before Election Day remain uncounted.
In Alaska’s local elections, a cruise ship limit fails, races are close ...
Oct 2, 2024 · Voters in Alaska’s capital city have rejected a resident-written ballot proposition that would have banned large cruise ships on Saturdays and the Fourth of July.. Tuesday was municipal election day for most of Alaska’s cities and boroughs, and in preliminary results in Juneau, about 60% of participating voters sided against the “ship-free Saturdays” initiative.