The 95% number has been repeated so often, for so long, it’s become something like conventional wisdom. But experts aren’t ...

The Nenana Totchaket Agricultural Project aims to fight food insecurity in the state but could interfere with local trappers’ ability to gather food. Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration believes the ...

A hemp crop waits to be harvested in Lincolnshire for British CBD oil producer Crop England on Aug. 27, 2021, in Grantham, England. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) A coalition of hemp ...

Mar. 19—JUNEAU — The Alaska Legislature on Wednesday rejected an executive order issued by Gov. Mike Dunleavy to establish a state agriculture department. The vote on the resolution to reject the ...

Alaska will remain one of two states without a cabinet-level Department of Agriculture, at least for the time being. On Wednesday, the Alaska Legislature voted 32-28 to deny an executive order from ...

Storms that battered Alaska's western coast this fall have brought renewed attention to low-lying Indigenous villages left ...

Lawmakers are looking closely at Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s plan to create a state Department of Agriculture. Dunleavy issued an executive order proposing the new department in December. It would split out ...

Gov. Dunleavy promised to replace lost federal food assistance with state aid to 66,000 Alaskans. That hasn’t happened yet ...

Alaska lawmakers heard a proposal for a new state agriculture department for the first time on Wednesday, even as they considered a resolution to disprove Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s executive order to stand ...

John Boyle, commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources (center left), sits with staff in the gallery of the Alaska House of Representatives as lawmakers debate the creation of a ...

A coalition of hemp growers and manufacturers has sued the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, claiming that new limits on intoxicating hemp products are unconstitutional. The lawsuit, by the ...