In what the Alaska Legislature’s longest-serving member called the “smoothest ending in 20 years” the Senate adjourned for the year at 1:20 p.m. Tuesday, followed by the House at 1:53 p.m. — nearly a ...

The Alaska Legislature overrode the governor’s education veto on Tuesday morning, 46-14. In the past two years, three attempts to override vetoes on bills increasing education funding have failed.

House Bill 16, the campaign finance bill, and Senate Bill 64, the elections reform legislation, are expected to return when the Legislature resumes work in January, and they could be part of a wave of ...