OPINION: Closing the Hilcorp ‘loophole’ is really just government extortion
The Hilcorp tax debate reflects the tension between free enterprise and Alaska government’s growing demand for revenue, compounded by the state’s resistance to cut its own spending and produce structural
Alaska’s GOP gubernatorial contenders to square off in unique family-values forum
This coming Thursday, May 21, a number of the most viable GOP contenders will square off in a unique public forum that aims to help voters distinguish between the many candidates who claim to be champions of conservative
AK House passes bill that could expand chemical abortions via pharmacists
Eleven Republicans in the Alaska State House joined all their Democrat and left-leaning independent colleagues to pass a bill which many pro-lifers see as an abortion expansion
Fiscal watchdog group urges governor to veto pension bill that ‘threatens to bankrupt’ Alaska
"Governor Dunleavy has a clear choice: protect Alaska’s fiscal future or risk leaving office with a legacy of reopening the door to massive pension debt. This bill threatens to bankrupt the state." - AFP President Emily
Thomas Loving: Conservative radio voice for faith & freedom in Alaska dies
Thomas Loving, the morning host of KVNT 1020 AM, died unexpectedly on May 13 at his Anchorage home. He was 63. Loving had stepped into the prominent morning slot after the previous host, Dan Fagan, passed away in
OPINION: Alaska’s next governor must establish an ‘Office of Unborn Advocacy’
We need an Office of Unborn Advocacy in the governor’s office - staffed with dedicated, taxpayer-funded, state employees who are willing to do in Alaska what pro-abortion governors are doing right now across the
REP. MCCABE: Gaslighting the gasline with unprincipled principles
Many of the most ardent critics of the Alaska gasline project are dismissing it with unprincipled slogans about free markets, which they ignore everywhere
Wayne Anthony Ross – Alaska’s legendary conservative warrior – has passed
Wayne Anthony Ross, affectionately known as “WAR” to generations of Alaskans, passed away peacefully on April 18, 2026, in Anthem, Arizona. He was
Alaska library conference looks to recruit teens as LGBTQ/DEI activists
Librarians across Alaska are being trained in how to recruit and train children to become political agents who can promote books that contain sexually explicit material and themes that push LGBTQ, critical race theory, climate alarmism and DEI
OPINION: Alaska pilfers our PFDs, while forking over billions to grantees
Alaskans may fairly ask whether government is solving problems or sustaining them, especially when billions move through grants while households are denied their full share of oil
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