Bryce Edgmon

I think the significance of the Act and what it means for our state has not gotten its full due.

In addition to health care and testing, tribal supplements have expanded Alaska’s access to vaccine by more than 92,000 first doses.

To continue expecting other people to stock the fridge and fill the car with gas is to remain trapped in a dream world paid for by endless oil that will never return.

OPINION: Closing any Alaska village school with less than 25 students would do far more damage than good to the state.

OPINION: Keep the Chuitna River's waters for Alaska salmon - and make clear that our renewable resources like salmon won't be traded for a fast buck.

Alaska's Department of Public Safety has records of dozens of physical attacks on village officers, some of them life-threatening. These officers work often without backup in remote Alaska villages.

As House representatives from among the largest coastal regions in the state, we are compelled to urge Gov. Parnell to call the Legislature into a two-day special session before the Alaska Coastal Management Program (ACMP) is allowed to expire on June 30.

Never underestimate the controversy that will attach itself to any enterprise related to the Pebble prospect. The latest debate revolves around the Legislature's reappropriation of $750,000 from last year's budget to fund a third-party interdisciplinary study of the potential environmental and socioeconomic impacts of large-scale mining in the Bristol Bay watershed.

As the winter cold approaches, I'm seeing skyrocketing energy costs already taking their toll on people in village Alaska. During travels throughout my Southwestern district, I see it in people's eyes. They tell me the number of dollars it's going to take to fill their fuel barrel, and I know they're not exaggerating when some say they flat out don't have that kind of money.