The lifelong Bristol Bay commercial fisherman and retired school superintendent is a newcomer to politics who says he wants to hold billionaires to account and get rural Alaskans what they deserve.

Lawmakers in support of a measure to strengthen the state’s corporate income tax on the oil and gas industry said it was essential for boosting state revenues.

Lawmakers are calling for the Trump administration to waive the fee for teachers hired through the H-1B visa program, which allows employers to recruit highly-skilled workers from overseas. The federal government raised the fee from $5,000 to $100,000 for each new applicant to the H-1B visa program in September 2025.

Sharon Hildebrand, of Nulato, beat incumbent Brian Ridley, of Eagle, and Darrell Hildebrand, also of Nulato.

The extension allows state agencies to continue responding to ongoing needs associated with the storm. House Republicans said the administration's approach could be legally vulnerable.

The 36-year-old former state representative from Sitka says the state’s core problems come down to Alaska not getting its “fair share of our oil resource.” He’s one of three Democrats vying against a dozen Republicans and two independents in the race to be Alaska’s next governor.

In his address to the Alaska Legislature on March 10, U.S. Rep. Nick Begich III spoke to the region’s lengthy road to recovery and responded to comments from state Rep. Nellie Jimmie about the toll that ex-typhoon Halong has taken on communities she represents.

A delegation of lawmakers made an impromptu visit to the school on Feb. 6, calling the conditions and deteriorating facilities "deplorable."

Federal fisheries regulators said a cap would balance protections for Western Alaska salmon with the health of pollock fisheries.

Lawmakers with the bipartisan majority caucus have expressed support for more funding for schools, but point to Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s history of vetoes as a major roadblock.