Lisa Murkowski

Sen. Lisa Murkowski held a roundtable health care reform event Wednesday at the University of Alaska Anchorage to discuss the Affordable Care Act. The event consisted of three panelists and a roomful of people who came together to discuss how the...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Monday that Alaska would be getting up to $50,000 to help clean up tsunami debris that's arrived on our shores due to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami last year. The federal government says...

The Air Force has determined that a valve in F-22 Raptor pilots’ pressure-suit vests are to blame for a string of hypoxia-related incidents, and is taking steps to replace the valves and relax flight restrictions placed on the stealth fighters....

The head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce-- the nation's premier group representing business interests -- said Thursday that he believes the U.S. Senate will pass the Law of the Sea Treaty during its next session. Despite Tom Donahue's prediction, the...

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is on a two-day energy tour in Alaska with Sen. John Hoeven (R-North Dakota). On Sunday, they landed in Anchorage after touring various oil and natural gas activities on the North Slope. Among the places they visited...

U.S. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar held a press conference in Anchorage today (Monday)-- and immediately stirred up controversy on the always-touchy subject of federal dominion when it comes to drilling in the state. Salazar said he would like to...

Sen. Lisa Murkowski is calling the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's approach to addressing abandoned wells in the Alaska Arctic "an embarrassment" to the federal government. Her comments came during a Senate hearing in Washington, D.C., focused on the...

Eielson Air Force Base in Fairbanks received a reprieve Tuesday afternoon, as Sen. Mark Begich’s office announced an Air Force delay on a decision whether to move a squadron of F-16 fighter jets from the baseto Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in...

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...

Alaska's U.S. senators have split on a vote reauthorizing a federal farm bill. Sen. Mark Begich is in favor of the bill and Sen. Lisa Murkowski against it.     Begich, in a statement, says the five-year, half-trillion-dollar bill would provide...