The federal government has appealed a court decision allowing California to count ballots allegedly sent to noncitizen voters. The appeal came just hours after a district judge rejected the Justice …
Peruvian President Keiko Fujimori visits El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center, a maximum-security prison built by President Nayib Bukele. The prison is designed to house dangerous gang members. …
President Donald Trump's allies are joining his call for a criminal prosecution of Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola in Alaska after revelations that her campaign appeared to be involved in …
An Egyptian man returns to court Thursday to change his not guilty plea to federal hate crime and other charges for a deadly firebombing attack on demonstrators in Colorado last year. Mohamed Soliman …
The U.S. Justice Department announced this week that it plans to deploy 1,000 federal monitors across all 50 states. That includes Alaska polling places but there are few details on where monitoring will take place. A DOJ spokesperson told States Newsroom this week that the full list of monitored locations won’t be disclosed until Election […]
Opposition leader María Corina Machado has returned to Venezuela, asserting that the country is moving toward presidential elections in 2027. On Thursday, she denied any contact with interim …
PICKING PUMPKINS - Children pick out pumpkins in the AC Lakeside parking lot on October 17 during the annual 3 to 5 Preschool Pumpkin Patch Fundraiser. The event was sponsored by AC Lakeside, Charlie's Produce, Fisheye, Jessie's Uptown Dogs, Sitka...
A coalition of Alaska commercial seafood industry organizations is giving fishermen and processors tools to boost voter turnout in the governor’s race. The nonpartisan Dock the Vote task force is educating fishermen on absentee and early voting,...
A state judge is set to consider whether social media posts by New York’s attorney general should disqualify her from leading a criminal investigation into gang rape allegations at Cornell …
FISH BILL - Bill Hill, independent candidate for Alaska’s U.S. House seat, center, sits with Sitka fishermen Jeff Farvour, left, and Dick Curran during a meet-and-greet at the Seafood Producers Cooperative plant on Wednesday afternoon. Hill...
A Southeast Alaska boater missing since Tuesday was found dead early Wednesday afternoon, troopers said. Angoon resident Roger Williams Jr. was reported missing to Alaska State Troopers at about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday after the 35-year-old didn’t...
The Sitka School District relies on community partnerships to continue providing classroom and other educational experiences at a high level to students here, the Assembly was told.
Expect a mix of original tunes, bluegrass classics and “blugrass-ified” popular music when Liam Purcell & Cane Mill Road takes the stage for a concert here Friday. The show is 7 p.m. at the Sitka Performing Arts Center, and presented by the Sitka...
Alaska’s governor said late Wednesday that he is ordering the Alaska Department of Public Safety to investigate whether Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola, her campaign or national Democratic groups violated state law by recruiting independent candidate Dan J. Sullivan to run in this year’s election. Sullivan’s recruitment was first reported Wednesday by the New […]
President Donald Trump's involvement in this year's midterm elections has moved from rhetoric to reality. The president directed his administration to intervene on behalf of his preferred candidate …
Haiti’s government has announced new election dates as police and soldiers, backed by over 2,000 troops from El Salvador, fight gangs. The Provisional Electoral Council says the first round of …
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On Nov. 2 the U.S. Census Bureau will close the public comment period on a proposed Trump Administration regulation to redefine who counts in America. It is his latest effort to erase immigrants from their collective participation in the American experiment. The proposed changes are several-fold: they would not only remove undocumented immigrants from the […]
Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won reelection bucking a regional trend of victories for right-of-center presidential candidates allied with Trump. Venezuelan opposition leader María …
Iran says three oil tankers exploded after striking mines in the Strait of Hormuz. The tankers reportedly ignored warnings and took an unauthorized route. The incident adds to the region's tension …