JUNEAU - The Senate Finance Committee is expected to continue work this week on a proposed $9.9-billion state operating budget.

JUNEAU - A Senate committee heard strong public testimony Monday in favor of criminalizing new federal gun regulations in Alaska.HB69, by House Speaker...

...tax credits are estimated to cost the state treasury about $1 billion, according to state budget estimates. The Senate committee will continue hearings on the bill with industry appearing the week of Feb. 4. Hearings have also been held in...

...administration officials testifying Tuesday before a Senate committee that began working on Gov. Sean Parnell's plan...years."Sen. Peter Micciche, who co-chairs the Senate committee on oil flowing through the trans-Alaska pipeline...

...Bob Heinrich, in a presentation before a special Senate committee Tuesday, said Parnell's plan makes the state a...geared toward new oil should be expanded.The special Senate committee on oil flow through the trans-Alaska pipeline is...

A state Senate committee Monday began three days of informational hearings on a new natural gas pipeline plan for Anchorage and Fairbanks, but the plan...

JUNEAU (AP) - The Senate Resources Committee on Friday advanced a new oil tax plan, which would address progressivity, reward new production and set a production tax floor to ensure that the state doesn't lose money if oil prices tank to $50 a barrel or less. The bill also would separate oil and gas production for purposes of taxation, a concept known as "decoupling" and vetoed by the governor two years ago, and it would establish an "oil information system" that would consolidate in one place available public oil and gas information now scattered among agencies.

JUNEAU - One of the North Slope's biggest oil producers said Thursday that a Senate committee seems to be dragging its feet on making meaningful tax changes and warned production will keep declining if lawmakers don't act...

JUNEAU - The Senate Resources Committee on Friday advanced a new oil tax plan, which would address progressivity, reward new production and set a production tax floor to ensure that the state doesn't lose money if oil prices tank to $50 a barrel or less. The bill also would separate oil and gas production for purposes of taxation, a concept known as "decoupling" and vetoed by the governor two years ago, and it would establish an "oil information system" that would consolidate in one place available public oil and gas information now scattered among agencies.

...ramifications that a new oil tax bill could have and try to ram something through in a week just so we could be done." Senate committees have been working on the issue since February. Senate President Gary Stevens said in a statement Friday that legislative...