Under the gun of a federal ultimatum, state and county health officials cut a longstanding backlog of food stamps cases nearly in half over the weekend. Progress continues toward cutting food ...

The last price hike for Forever stamps came in August 2021, when the USPS increased the price three cents to 58 cents. ... We can’t undo that progress by making prices uncompetitive. ...

The division of state government that handles food stamps has made progress in eliminating the backlog of thousands of Alaskans waiting for aid, but it still has work to do.

In its fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2022, the USPS seized more than 340,000 packages with counterfeit postage and more than 7.7 million counterfeit stamps, a spokesman said via email.