Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media - Anchorage

The Data for Progress poll also shows Peltola leads the field in the governors race, but she has more name recognition and a year of campaigning could change that.

"Our tribal citizens will have to decide between fuel and food,” AFN President Ben Mallott told a U.S. Senate panel.

On government funding, tariffs, and Venezuelan boat strikes, Sen. Lisa Murkowski finds common cause with Democrats.

Only a few Alaska disasters have qualified for a federal program that distributes as much as $85,000 per household.

The state is evacuating the vulnerable and trying to find safe shelter for all. “We're moving as fast as we can,” the incident commander said. “We know that folks are miserable.”

A Coast Guard commander recounts scenes of Alaskans swimming in floodwaters in the middle of the night, in search of debris to hold onto.

Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins were the only GOP senators to vote against the bill to claw back funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and foreign aid. It goes next to the House.

The Alaska senator was among a few Republicans on the Appropriations Committee who objected to clawing back money for foreign aid and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Republicans can only afford to lose the votes of three GOP senators. Murkowski doesn’t like major elements of it. But how she’ll ultimately vote is unknown, even to the senator herself.

Diminishing the workforce is central to the Trump agenda and among the big impacts in the first 100 days of his term. It’ll be months before we see how many jobs Alaska lost.