Sen. Murkowski’s ‘landless’ bill advances to U.S. Senate floor

Sen. Lisa Murkowski at the U.S. Capitol in 2023. (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media)
A bill allowing five Alaska Native communities in Southeast to receive land entitlements passed out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
Alaska U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski announced July 16 that her bill had advanced to the Senate floor.
The legislation, called the Alaska Native Landless Equity Act, would allow Haines, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg and Tenakee to form Alaska Native corporati