Millions of residents in Alaska are about to receive a special stimulus payment this September as part of the state’s unique Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) program. This program has been giving money ...

Tuesday, Congressman Nick Begich (R-AK) addressed a joint session of the Alaska State Legislature, outlining major federal achievements for Alaska during his first year in Congress and calling on ...

The filing deadline for this year’s Alaska Permanent Fund dividend is March 31, and if Rep. Nick Begich III has his way, this year’s dividend will be tax free. On March 3, Alaska’s lone member of the ...

Alaskans have until March 31 to apply for annual dividend ...

Overspending from the Permanent Fund and years of lost oil revenue are pushing the state toward a preventable budget crisis.

The dividend was created to protect our shared resource wealth and hold government accountable — not to be negotiated away ...

The Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend is one of the most unusual in America due to the unusual distribution mechanism of its oil wealth, as Alaska has a unique and special system of payment of an annual ...

It’s the first week of October, and you know what that means. Thousands of Alaskans woke up on Friday to find Permanent Fund Dividend checks deposited into their bank accounts. The modest amount of $1 ...

This year’s Permanent Fund dividend will be $1,000, an amount set by the Alaska Legislature in House Bill 53, the state’s annual operating budget bill, earlier this year. Ordinarily, lawmakers ...

Some Alaska lawmakers differ with Gov. Mike Dunleavy about how to tackle the state's $5.5 billion deficit. Processing Content Three speakers — all Republicans, like the governor — parted ways with ...

Fifty years ago, Alaskan voters amended the state constitution to set aside a portion of the state’s revenues from oil and minerals, establishing the Alaska Permanent Fund to benefit all generations ...