Lisa Murkowski

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is proposing to have the environmental and economic impacts of genetically modified fish studied before the fish are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.     Murkowski's office says the analysis by the National...

Alaska's Senators are welcoming an agreement by the Veterans Administration that allows Rural Alaska veterans to receive health care benefits at Native health clinics. A release from Senator Mark Begich's office says the VA, 14 Alaska Native Tribal...

Canneries in Alaska can continue to hire foreign workers until at least November under the J-1 Summer Work and Travel Program.     The visa program brings more than 100,000 foreign college students to the United States each year.     The State...

After state lawmakers failed to pass legislation that might have brought a natural gas pipeline from Alaska's North Slope, new hope for such a project has been revived Tuesday -- by officials with the government of Japan. On Monday night, Sen. Lisa...

In meetings with community leaders in Fairbanks and Anchorage April 10 to April 12, the Air Force general tasked with implementing the relocation of the F-16 squadron from Eielson Air Force Base to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson promised a transparent...

The Department of Defense will provide a long-term plan for missions at Eielson Air Force Base.     The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports (http://bit.ly/Jpgjh8) that's what Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told U.S. Sen. Mark Begich during a meeting...

U.S. Sen. Mark Begich and Sen. Lisa Murkowski are among more than 40 senators who have asked the postmaster general to extend the moratorium on closing U.S. postal facilities.     The current moratorium is scheduled to end May 15. When it was imposed...

U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski delivered her annual speech to the Alaska State Legislature on Thursday, but some of her most powerful comments came after her prepared remarks during a question-and-answer session with Alaska lawmakers. Murkowski answered...

A report conducted by an independent investigator -- and commissioned by a Federal Judge in Washington -- confirms in detail allegations of prosecutorial misconduct in the trial of the late Ted Stevens. The report was released publicly today -- after...

Sen. Lisa Murkowski isn't up for election until 2016, but that's not stopping the American Chemistry Council from buying lots of commercial airtime on TV and radio stations in Anchorage, airing a pro-Murkowski political advertisement hundreds of times....

The Alaska Railroad could face some tough decisions after the U.S. Senate chose last week to cut $30 million in federal funds designated for the railroad from the Senate transportation bill. Alaska's senators, Mark Begich and Lisa Murkowski, pushed for...

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) made an interesting remark this week on Capitol Hill about Alaska, the Transportation Security Administration and the kuspuk -- the loose, often colorful, traditional Alaska Native shirt. She said during a Senate hearing...