Lisa Murkowski

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski says the arrest of a 71-year-old man on the Yukon River last September was the "tipping point" for relations between the state and federal land managers. Murkowski says the arrest of Jim Wilde of Central illustrates the need to...

Sunday will mark the 10-year anniversary of the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and Alaskans are planning to remember the date with both somber memorials and increased security at the state’s major military bases: •    In Anchorage, a 9/11...

Things are not looking good for a stalled federal construction project in midtown. The National Archives and Records Administration purchased a large plot of land in 2004, hoping to build a new facility, but the money ran out and lawmakers in...

Congress is weighing in on the debate over the proposed gold and copper mine, known as Pebble Mine, in the Bristol Bay area.  Monday, Washington state Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator...

President Obama on Tuesday signed an executive order creating an interagency working group to coordinate energy development in Alaska. Interior Department Deputy Secretary David Hayes will chair the high-level group. Hayes says on the White House blog...

Alaska’s congressional delegation introduced legislation Wednesday to repeal application of the U.S. Forest Service’s “roadless rule” to the state. The rule, dating back to the Clinton administration, bans most road construction or...

The Sealaska Native Corporation scored a major victory in Congress Wednesday.  A bill to convey 80,000 acres of land in the Tongass National Forest to the corporation cleared the House Natural Resources Committee. “This is the furthest we have gone...

Alaska’s congressional delegation doesn’t want “Frankenfish” – their word for genetically-modified salmon – on the U.S. market. U.S. Senators Mark Begich and Lisa Murkowski and Congressman Don Young joined a handful of...

One of the longest military conflicts in our nation's history comes to an end when President Obama announced he’s pulling nearly 40,000 US troops from Iraq. “Across America our service men and women will be reunited with their families. Today...

At the Alaska Federation of Natives on Saturday, the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and Sen. Lisa Murkowski held a field hearing focusing on suicide prevention in Alaska. Panelists from the federal, state and local levels discussed how to solve the...

Alaska's U.S. senators are joining in a wider overhaul of the country's education system, taking a hard look at the Elementary and Secondary Education Act -- or as most people know it, No Child Left Behind.  Last week during a Senate Health, Education,...

Sen. Lisa Murkowski is one of the many donors to give books and other materials to the Togiak Public Library. After the library was vandalized for the second time on May 12, the community joined in the effort to replace materials and items that were...