Lisa Murkowski

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 Republican PartyChair Randy Ruedrich, who is slated to step down next year, says he is ‘very concerned’ about Chair-Elect Russ Millette urging all party members to attend the final session of the party’s 2012 convention. “...

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...

The USS Anchorage will be commissioned in Anchorage next September or October, according to a joint statement Monday from Alaska’s congressional delegation. Sens. Mark Begich and Lisa Murkowski, as well as Rep. Don Young, all wrote Navy Secretary...

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...

Canneries in Alaska can continue to hire foreign workers until at least November under the J-1 Summer Work and Travel Program.     The visa program brings more than 100,000 foreign college students to the United States each year.     The State...

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...

After state lawmakers failed to pass legislation that might have brought a natural gas pipeline from Alaska's North Slope, new hope for such a project has been revived Tuesday -- by officials with the government of Japan. On Monday night, Sen. Lisa...

The Alaska Railroad could face some tough decisions after the U.S. Senate chose last week to cut $30 million in federal funds designated for the railroad from the Senate transportation bill. Alaska's senators, Mark Begich and Lisa Murkowski, pushed for...