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06-05-26 KUAC MORNING NEWS

Patrick Gilchrist/KUAC

University of Alaska Fairbanks students are calling on Governor Mike Dunleavy to keep university maintenance funding intact.

A political unknown from Petersburg filed for Alaska’s U.S. Senate race last week. His candidacy is making headlines nationwide because his name, like the incumbent, is Dan Sullivan.

U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan has been silent on President Trump’s controversial plan to spend public funds on a White House ballroom and his nearly $1.8 billion compensation fund. But on Thursday, Sullivan voted against those Trump priorities in amendments that failed on the Senate floor.

The largest tribe in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta squared off against Donlin Gold and the state of Alaska Wednesday in the state’s Supreme Court.

The National Science Foundation plans to yank a long-standing ocean observation station from the sea floor far off the coast of Alaska next year.

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