Organizations

Anchorage 12-member elected legislative body, meeting weekly in the Loussac Library chambers. Passes ordinances, approves the municipal budget, and confirms mayoral appointments.

The upper chamber of the United States Congress — 100 senators, two per state, six-year terms. Confirms federal judges and senior executive appointments, ratifies treaties, and shares legislative authority with the House of Representatives. Alaska's senators are Lisa Murkowski (R) and Dan Sullivan (R).

Largest local government in Alaska, covering 1,961 square miles from Girdwood to Eklutna. A unified home-rule municipality combining city and borough powers over a population of roughly 290,000.

Manages Alaska's sport and commercial fisheries, hunting regulations, subsistence harvests, and wildlife conservation. Sets annual seasons, bag limits, and permit rules.

Unified home-rule city and borough on Baranof Island in Southeast Alaska. Former capital of Russian America; now a fishing, tourism, and seafood processing hub with the Sitka Sound at its center.

Alaska's statewide law enforcement, patrolling non-municipal Alaska from Ketchikan to Utqiagvik. Publishes the Daily Dispatch of statewide incidents. Division of the Alaska Department of Public Safety.

Alaska's state transportation agency, responsible for highways, airports, harbors, and the Alaska Marine Highway System. Publishes road projects, airport bids, and ferry schedules statewide.

Federal agency managing Alaska's federal-waters fisheries (pollock, cod, halibut, crab) under the Magnuson-Stevens Act. Home of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council.

Administers Alaska's workers' compensation, unemployment insurance, workforce training grants, and occupational safety programs. Publishes economic data and apprenticeship opportunities.

NOAA forecast offices in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau. Issues warnings for marine weather, river breakup, avalanches, fire weather, and aviation across Alaska.

Alaska state government's executive branch, headed by the Governor and 15 cabinet departments. Oversees education, public safety, transportation, health, commerce, and natural resource management for the 49th state.

Alaska's bicameral legislature — 20-member Senate and 40-member House — meeting in Juneau from January to May each year. Sets the state budget, oil and gas policy, school funding, and the annual Permanent Fund Dividend calculation.

Seven-member citizen board setting Alaska's sport, personal-use, subsistence, and commercial fishing regulations statewide. Meets in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and regional hubs annually.

Regulates Alaska's air and water quality, contaminated site cleanup, food safety, and oil spill prevention and response. Issues permits for discharges and air emissions statewide.

State corporation advancing the Alaska LNG Project — a pipeline to bring North Slope natural gas to tidewater at Nikiski for export to Asian markets.

Second-class borough covering the entire Kenai Peninsula — 25,000 square miles of glaciers, fjords, and world-class salmon streams. Economy built on commercial fishing, oil and gas, and tourism.

Juneau-based nonprofit promoting Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian cultural preservation, language revitalization, and educational programs.

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council sets fishing regulations for Alaska waters, managing pollock, sablefish, crab and other fisheries through rules.

Home-rule borough covering Alaska's Arctic Coast from the Canadian border to the Chukchi Sea. Largest U.S. borough by area. Seat at Utqiagvik; economy built on oil and Inupiaq subsistence.

State-owned corporation managing the Alaska Permanent Fund — the $80+ billion sovereign wealth fund built from oil royalties that pays the annual Permanent Fund Dividend to residents.

Municipal law enforcement for the Municipality of Anchorage, including patrol, investigations, and public information.

Anchorage-based Native nonprofit health system serving Alaska Native and American Indian people across south-central Alaska. Co-owns Alaska Native Medical Center with ANTHC. Pioneer of the Nuka System of Care.

Southernmost borough in Alaska, gateway to the Inside Passage. Known for rainforests, totem poles, commercial fishing, timber history, and a thriving cruise tourism industry.

Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission regulates oil and gas operations in Alaska, including permitting, production data, and carbon storage wells.

The executive office of the U.S. President — presidential proclamations, executive orders, presidential memoranda, signing statements, fact sheets, press briefings, and official statements published at whitehouse.gov.

Association of Village Council Presidents — regional tribal consortium representing 56 federally-recognized tribes in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta

Commonwealth North is a nonpartisan public policy forum in Alaska that convenes business, civic, and political leaders to study state issues and host public discussions.

Municipal government of the City of Kodiak, distinct from the Kodiak Island Borough that surrounds it. Governs the city proper including the harbor, one of the largest commercial fishing ports in the United States. City Council meetings and work sessions are recorded and posted publicly.

ASRC — Alaska Native regional corporation for the North Slope, formed under ANCSA. Owned by Inupiat shareholders, with holdings in petroleum services, government contracting, and energy.

State agency managing Alaska's public lands, mining, oil and gas leasing, forestry, parks, and water rights. Covers millions of acres of state-owned wilderness.