Lisa Murkowski: “The fire programs now cost the Forest Service more than 50 percent of its overall budget.”

Kyle brings extensive knowledge of both our state and our court system to the federal bench, having served the District of Alaska as a federal prosecutor and U.S. Magistrate Judge, a position he has held in Alaska for the past five years.

Where there’s opportunities to put certain guardrails in our spending bills — there are tools, there are mechanisms — we have to be diligent to it.

Alaska is praying for those on board, their loved ones, and the team at Security Aviation.

I join Alaskans in offering condolences as we learn of the plane crash in Cape Newenham.