...and willingness to stay on and assist the state during an important time. Also appointed were two new deputy commissioners in the Department of Corrections. Commissioner Joe Schmidt announced that Dwayne Peeples of Juneau and Sam Edwards of Wasilla...

But problems at the State Office Building are probably no worse than at the average aging state building, officials said, and they're working on fixing them. The downtown Juneau building houses about 1,000 state workers.

Workers are getting stuck in elevators and the roof leaks.

The state is studying whether the state should change its tax policies to try to spur more oil company investment here. A legislative committee also is looking at the issue.

...Gov. Sean Parnell were sworn in at Centennial Hall. Stone said he'd been happy in his current job as deputy commissioner in the Department of Labor, but couldn't turn down the potentially high profile post in the state's No. 2 executive...

The lieutenant governor and the state's top environmental regulator took a trip to New Orleans last year paid for by one of the state's top oil companies.

...C. office. He in the past has served as editorial page editor of the Anchorage Daily News and as a deputy commissioner in the Department of Revenue. He remains president of the board of Juneau's Wildflower Court. Two competing pipeline...

The lieutenant governor and the state's top environmental regulator took a trip to New Orleans last year paid for by one of the state's top oil companies.

...union leaders are due to meet Tuesday to look at lower-cost alternatives. According to Alison Elgee, deputy commissioner in the Department of Administration, time is limited. She said a new plan needs to be in place by July 1 and also needs...

...likely would change once the bill is introduced during the next legislative session. Deborah Vogt, a deputy commissioner in the Department of Revenue, said the proposal also would hold operators and charities who run their own games to the same...