Mark Begich

Alaska's Senators are welcoming an agreement by the Veterans Administration that allows Rural Alaska veterans to receive health care benefits at Native health clinics. A release from Senator Mark Begich's office says the VA, 14 Alaska Native Tribal...

For months now, Alaska’s congressional delegation has been working to stop the Air Force from moving a squadron of F-16 fighter jets from Fairbanks to Anchorage. Now Alaska lawmakers have added a delay tactic to their efforts. This week a Senate...

The U.S. Senate moved the country one step closer Thursday afternoon to something that the world has never seen before: approving a genetically modified, or GM, animal for human consumption. The Senate passed a bill approving reauthorization of the...

Alaska’s D.C. delegation, Senators Mark Begich and Lisa Murkowski, has announced several in-state events during the Congressional break. On Wednesday morning starting at 8:30 a.m., both senators will be at the Dena’ina Center at the Alaska...

An Alaska Supreme Court Judge made history on Wednesday afternoon. An investiture ceremony was held for Judge Morgan Christen at the Dena'ina Center. Judge Christen became the first woman from Alaska to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth...

After the mishandled trial of former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, the U.S. Senate is trying to decide if it should change the rules for how federal prosecutors handle evidence. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) argued, Wednesday, for reform before the Senate...

Fish camps up and down the Kuskokwim River in Southwest Alaska remain unusually quiet and void of activity.  But callers on a Bethel talk radio show had plenty to say about the failure of the king salmon run to appear.   Monday’s radio show on...

In meetings with community leaders in Fairbanks and Anchorage April 10 to April 12, the Air Force general tasked with implementing the relocation of the F-16 squadron from Eielson Air Force Base to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson promised a transparent...

A 150 foot Japanese fishing vessel, believed to be washed out to sea by an earthquake and tsunami last March, has appeared off the coast of British Columbia and is expected to drift north toward Alaska, according to NOAA. Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska)...

In Fairbanks, there are some taut nerves this weekend. That's because residents there today learned details of an Air Force plan to make drastic cuts at Eielson Air Force Base. General Norton Schwartz, The Air Force Chief-of-Staff, told a crowd of...

“Big Miracle,” a film based on the 1988 international rescue of whales trapped under ice near Barrow, held its world premiere Wednesday in Washington, D.C. The event drew figures from the original crisis as well as A-list actors from the film,...

A plan by the Obama administration to refocus and shrink the U.S. military presence around the globe could have a significant impact on Alaska. The Pentagon says Asia is now its primary focus -- especially unstable North Korea, where new leader Kim...