Juneau is the most expensive city among the three in-state municipalities included in the study. The 2024 data shows Juneau had the second-highest grocery and health care costs overall and the third-highest prices for miscellaneous goods and services of the more than 250 cities that were surveyed. Holst said that makes sense to him.

The fate of President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda was in Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s hands — and she used that leverage to force a series of changes that will deliver more federal dollars to her state.