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Top Alaska Beacon News

House Approves Trump’s Request to Cut $9.4 Billion in Funding for NPR, PBS, and Foreign Aid

US Politics · United States

House Approves Trump’s Request to Cut $9.4 Billion in Funding for NPR, PBS, and Foreign Aid

39% Center coverage: 160 sources

U.S. House Votes to Claw Back $1.1 Billion From Public Media

Donald Trump · Washington

U.S. House Votes to Claw Back $1.1 Billion From Public Media

63% Left coverage: 27 sources

The House of Representatives narrowly approved legislation Thursday to eliminate the next two years of federal funding for public media outlets.See the Story

Hawley: Radiation Exposure Compensation Added to Senate Reconciliation Text

Josh Hawley · United States

Hawley: Radiation Exposure Compensation Added to Senate Reconciliation Text

56% Left coverage: 18 sources

The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act trust fund went dark roughly a year ago.See the Story

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US appeals court refuses to vacate Biden approval of Alaska’s Willow oil project

Low coverage from Right Sources

US appeals court refuses to vacate Biden approval of Alaska’s Willow oil project

US appeals court refuses to vacate Biden approval of Alaska’s Willow oil project

53% Left coverage: 15 sources

A federal appeals court panel on Friday refused to vacate the approval of the massive Willow oil project on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope though it found flaws in how the approval was reached.Donald Trump · Alaska See the Story

Who Has Beef with the Republican Mega-Bill? Alaska’s Solar Industry, Among Others.

100% Left coverage: 18 sources

Josh Craft, an Alaska energy consultant, was in Washinton, D.C. on June 11, 2025 to advocate for renewable energy tax credits. He waited with Caitlin McLennan, who helped organize the visit, in the office of Congressman Nick Begich. (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Capitol complex is crawling with citizen advocates these days, mobilized by one part or another of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” pending in the Congress. A cluste…Taxes · Alaska See the Story

Alaska House Judiciary Committee to hold a fact-finding hearing on ICE detention in state prisons

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

The entrance to the Anchorage Correctional Complex is seen on Aug. 29, 2022. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)The Alaska House Judiciary Committee plans to hold a hearing June 20 on the use of Alaska Department of Corrections facilities to house and supervise federal detainees for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The announcement comes following news of DOC holding 42 people arrested and detained by ICE from out of state over the w…Alaska · Alaska Read Article

Alaska, Where Only 2% of Homes Have AC, Just Issued Its First Heat Advisory Ever

67% Left coverage: 3 sources

Unseasonable warmth coming soon to Alaska has prompted the first-ever heat advisory for residents.Technology · Alaska See the Story

Industrial trawling is killing Alaska’s salmon and our way of life

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

Chinook and chum salmon dry on racks near a home along the Yukon River in this undated photo. (Photo provided by USGS Alaska Science Center) I grew up in Tanana, Alaska, spending summers fishing the Yukon River at Rampart Rapids with my family and our 20 to 30 sled dogs. Salmon wasn’t just food: It was our life. It fed our families and our dogs, who were not only companions but essential workers and transportation in a vast, roadless region. In …Alaska · Alaska Read Article

Dunleavy cuts Legislature’s education funding increase by $200 per student

Coverage: 4 sources

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy gestures to his wife, Rose Dunleavy, during the opening moments of his seventh annual State of the State address in Juneau on Jan. 28, 2024. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) Alaska’s public schools likely won’t get all the money lawmakers approved in a bipartisan vote last month after Gov. Mike Dunleavy unilaterally reduced education funding with a line-item veto. Dunleavy cut $50 million from state education spending, …Mike Dunleavy · Alaska See the Story

Mother Kuskokwim Tribal Coalition Congratulates Plaintiff Tribes on Federal Court Win Against Donlin Mine - Alaska Native News

Coverage: 2 sources

BETHEL, ALASKA – A U.S. District Court in Alaska ruled Wednesrday, in a case brought by six Tribes from the Yukon-Kuskokwim region,, that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) must supplement the proposed Donlin Gold project’s environmental study, a well-deserved victory for the six Kuskokwim River tribes who brought suit, and a development cheered […] The post Mother Kuskokwim Tribal Coalition Congratulates Plaintiff Tribes on Federal Court …Alaska · Alaska See the Story

Impact of drastic federal funding cuts on tribal colleges, universities would be ‘extremely dire’

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

Adam Strom, head coach for the Haskell Indian Nations University women's basketball team, coaches the team to a March 1, 2025, win against Washington Adventist University (Maryland) during the 2025 Continental Athletic Conference women's basketball championship. After he was laid off Feb. 14, 2025, as a result of mass federal layoffs by the Trump administration, Strom continued to coach without pay until he was rehired on March 6, 2025. (Photo b…Basketball · Rapid City Read Article

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