A Permanent Fund dividend of about $1,300 this year is essentially set in stone now that Gov. Mike Dunleavy signed the state budget this week. Since that’s a huge dropoff from the $3,284 payouts last ...

Alaskans wait in line to file their Permanent Fund dividend applications in downtown Anchorage in March 2016. (Photo: Rachel Waldholz, APRN) Malachite Berry is a freshman at the University of Alaska ...

It is time now for the Legislature to seriously consider eliminating the Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) and to establish a mechanism to provide a replacement income source only for those who are ...

It’s Permanent Fund dividend time, and it’s a big one this year. Cash registers would be ringing all over town — if there were still cash registers. Silent electronic credit card sliders are used now; ...

Alaska’s House of Representatives has finalized an operating budget after rejecting amendments to fund literacy, child care, Pre-K education and a range of public health programs designed to reduce ...