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Alaskans will receive a $1,312 Permanent Fund Dividend payment this year, near legislators’ estimate

This year’s Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend will be $1,312.The Alaska Department of Revenue announced the figure Thursday, two weeks before the annual cash payments will be delivered by direct deposit. .link-button {...

Alaska DMV considers eliminating license plate stickers

The Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles is considering whether to eliminate the month and date registration stickers that adorn state license plates here.In a request for information published earlier this month, the division...

Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. plans to open Anchorage office by year’s end

The Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. intends to open an office in Anchorage by the end of the year, the chairman of the corporation’s board of trustees said Thursday.When the office opens in space...

Transportation Secretary Buttigieg to visit Alaska next week

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg will visit Alaska next week, stopping in Kotzebue, Anchorage and several communities in Southeast Alaska.Alaska is slated to receive more than $5 billion from the federal infrastructure...

New estimate shows Alaska’s Permanent Fund could be out of spendable money in 3-4 years

The spendable portion of the Alaska Permanent Fund is dwindling and could be exhausted entirely within three years, fund leaders were told during a regular quarterly meeting on Wednesday in Anchorage.Deven Mitchell, CEO...

More outdoor seating is coming at Alaska’s bars, taprooms and restaurants, but it may take time

Alaska’s alcohol board voted unanimously Thursday to approve a regulation that allows bar, distillery and winery taprooms to open temporary outdoor seating spaces during the summer.The move follows a separate vote in May...

As Alaska tourism rebounds, state and federal officials crack down on fake Alaska Native art

A Ketchikan man agreed to plead guilty this month to federal charges in conjunction with a long-running scheme to sell fake Alaska Native souvenirs manufactured in the Philippines.Travis Lee Macaset’s plea deal follows...

New ballot measure seeks to restrict spending on Alaska elections

A group that brought ranked-choice voting to Alaska is now seeking to restrict big money campaign donations after a federal appeals court erased the state’s prior limits.Alaskans for Better Elections submitted a proposed...

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