Tag: Alaska

Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, said, "It is my hope, and this is a very aggressive timeline, that we would have the first [oil and natural gas] lease sale to be sometime in 2019." (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

Energy and Environment

Alaska senator says opening of Arctic refuge could start next year

Josh Siegel · March 5, 2018 9:46 pm

President Trump's plan to slap a 25 percent tariff on steel imports could drive up the cost for oil and natural pipelines. (Joe Lamberti/Camden Courier-Post via AP)

Senator, pipeline CEO warn Trump steel tariffs could harm ‘energy dominance’ agenda

Josh Siegel · March 5, 2018 9:01 pm

Kroger stores do not sell firearms or ammunition. Rather, Kroger's sister company, the West Coast-based Fred Meyer, does. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Beltway Confidential

No, Kroger grocery stores do not sell guns

Becket Adams · March 1, 2018 7:19 pm

The video of Rep. Don Young's, R-Alaska, response to Dimitri Shein, a Democrat running for Young's House seat, was published to YouTube by Shein this week. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

GOP congressman: Jews were killed in the Holocaust because they didn’t have guns

Mandy Mayfield · February 28, 2018 5:51 pm

A new report shows Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Texas, and Wisconsin were hacked by a covert Russian operation before the 2016 election. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan, File)

US intelligence found seven states breached by Russia before 2016 election: Report

Daniel Chaitin · February 27, 2018 11:06 pm

Republican John Kasich of Ohio, Colorado Democrat John Hickenlooper and Alaska's Bill Walker, an independent, pushed for the two bills during a press conference Friday at the National Press Club. (AP)

Bipartisan governors seek new momentum for Obamacare bills

Robert King · February 23, 2018 6:21 pm

Security agents found two one-pound canisters of gunpowder in a passenger's belongings last week at Alaska's Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport. (AP Photo/Dan Joling)

Airport officials in Alaska find gunpowder in passenger’s luggage

Anna Giaritelli · February 20, 2018 10:12 pm

Gen. Lori Robinson, the U.S. Northern Commander, (pictured right) said in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee that North Korea's successful nuclear and missile tests over the past year "represents the most immediate threat to our homeland, and therefore remains NORTHCOM's highest priority." (US Air Force photo by Melanie Rodgers Cox/Released)

US Northern Commander is ‘100 percent’ certain she can defend America from North Korean Missiles

Jamie McIntyre · February 15, 2018 10:28 pm

The two also no longer follow each other on Instagram, and in their last posted family pictures together, Bristol Palin and Dakota Meyer don't appear to be wearing wedding rings. (Photo by Todd Williamson/Invision/AP)

Bristol Palin and husband split: Report

Mandy Mayfield · February 13, 2018 10:54 pm

Sixty-three percent of voters like President Trump in Alabama, where he has a +29 percent net approval rating, the poll said. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Here are the states with the highest and lowest Trump approval ratings

Anna Giaritelli · February 13, 2018 1:18 pm

King Cove, Alaska, residents with medical emergencies must fly to Cold Bay and then to Anchorage for treatment. Flights can be delayed hours or even days by bad weather. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service photo)

Energy and Environment

Environmentalists sue Trump administration over deal allowing road through Alaska refuge

Josh Siegel · January 31, 2018 9:22 pm

Eleven lawmakers, led by Rep. Bob Gibbs, explained in a letter that former President Barack Obama's decision to change the name of an Alaska mountain (pictured above) to Denali was "disrespectful" to the 25th president of the U.S., William McKinley, for which the mountain was named. The Obama administration moved forward with the name change in 2015 in response to indigenous groups and others who sought for years to change the peak back to its original name in the native people's language. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

Energy and Environment

Ohio GOP prods Trump to keep promise to bring back Mt. McKinley

John Siciliano · January 31, 2018 7:19 pm