Liz Ruskin
Washington, D.C., CorrespondentLiz Ruskin is the Washington, D.C., correspondent for Alaska Public Media. She covers the state’s congressional delegation, public lands and resource development policy from the nation’s capital, and also from Anchorage. She has worked at Alaska Public Media since 2013.
She previously worked at the Anchorage Daily News and started her career at the Homer News. She’s a graduate of West Anchorage High School and the University of Washington. She has a master’s in journalism from the University of Missouri.
In addition to her news stories, Liz writes a fortnightly newsletter called Alaska At-Large.
Outside of work, Liz is an avid baker of bread. She likes to hike and ski, explore historical sites around D.C. and tend her little house in Anchorage.
Reach Liz at lruskin@alaskapublic.org.
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Bering Strait communities are urging passage of a bill that would prohibit states from banning ivory that's in authentic Alaska Native art and handicrafts. -
When the delegation gets federal project money, the Legislature has to pony up its share, Sen. Lisa Murkowski said. "We need you to meet the match.” -
Mary Peltola spent campaign funds in 2025, when she was, on paper, a U.S. House candidate. The NRSC says she had no visible campaign so the spending "must have been for her personal use.” -
Rep. Jared Huffman, D- Calif., says a Trump insider made millions from the equity purchase of Trilogy Metals. The firm aims to develop the Ambler mining district in Northwest Alaska, -
The U.S. Supreme Court seems likely to nix a law allowing ballots to arrive up to five days late. Alaska allows 10 days. Even votes cast in person can take days to arrive. -
Eleven companies bought oil and gas leases on 1.3 million acres of the NPR-A, including tracts around Teshekpuk Lake, a previously protected area. -
The voter credentials bill got 51 votes to advance but not enough to clear the Senate. Sen. Murkowski says she's for voter ID but says the bill would disenfranchise Alaskans. -
President Trump said this week that his top priority for Congress is to pass a bill called the SAVE America Act. It would require proof of citizenship to register to vote. -
There's "no question" the president should've asked Congress first, she said, but ending combat now doesn't help. -
No bids in the first of six mandated oil and gas lease sales in the federal waters of Cook Inlet.
