Mr. Edgmon, an independent, is speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives and lives in Dillingham. Ms. Giessel, a ...

Four days after narrowly approving a budget amendment that boosts the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend, the Alaska House of Representatives remains without the votes to advance the state’s ...

The Alaska House of Representatives elected a temporary speaker on Thursday. Independent Representative Josiah Patkotak from Utqiagvik will preside over the House until there’s a permanent speaker.

After nearly 40 years in Alaska’s state Capitol, Sen. Lyman Hoffman is calling it quits. On Wednesday, the Bethel Democrat ...

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 ...

The House promptly canceled its session scheduled for Tuesday. The Empire’s front page from Feb. 2, 1981, as the House of Representatives was still struggling to organize. (Alaska State Archives) ...

Congress passed the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act in 2000 as a way to help logging towns cope ...

The Alaska House of Representatives is largely empty during a technical session on Feb. 2, 2022 due to many of its members being exposed to someone who tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday in ...

The Alaska House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that would require insurance companies to provide coverage for prescription contraceptives and to dispense a year’s worth of ...

Members of the Alaska House of Representatives gather around Rep. Chuck Kopp, R-Anchorage, as they prepare to vote on the final version of the House's draft state budget Tuesday, March 3, 2020.

JUNEAU — The latest round of negotiations in the Alaska House of Representatives has failed, continuing the state’s leadership and fiscal deadlock. Despite a daylong session of stairway ...