The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit to block certification of the U.S. Senate race in Alaska if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses. Another candidate with the same name is on the ballot. …
The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit to block certification of the Alaska Senate race if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses. Concerns have risen about a potential lengthy battle over election …
President Donald Trump's administration has taken steps to block the results of a midterm election in Alaska. The issue centers on two candidates named Dan Sullivan on the Senate ballot. One is a …
For a time growing up, I called a rocket range home. My late father, Neal Brown, directed Poker Flat Research Range outside Fairbanks for 18 years. To the scientists who traveled there, it was a place to send instruments into the northern lights. To me, it was part of childhood: familiar people doing remarkable things […]
Four candidates are vying for an open seat to represent the Southwestern Alaska House District 37, one of the state’s largest rural districts where fisheries, skyrocketing costs of living, transportation and schools are top of mind this election season. The district includes communities from the middle Kuskokwim region including Aniak and Sleetmute in the north, […]
This article is developing and will be updated. The U.S. Department of Justice filed suit against the Alaska Division of Elections late Thursday, seeking to block the division from certifying the result of the state’s U.S. Senate election if the Democratic challenger, Mary Peltola, wins. Peltola is the leading opponent to incumbent Republican Sen. Dan […]
The Alaska Division of Elections and Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom acted incorrectly when they put disqualified Republican candidate Jose Tagle on the ballot for state House District 22, an Anchorage Superior Court judge said Thursday. Judge Josie Garton’s decision, published in the late afternoon, means “Tagle’s election may not be certified if he does win […]
Alaska’s North Slope probably holds enough undiscovered natural gas to fuel the nation for nearly three years, according to a new federal report. A resource assessment released Wednesday by the U.S. Geological Survey produced a mean estimate of 96 trillion cubic feet for undiscovered conventional natural gas reserves across the entire North Slope. That is […]
Early, in-person voting opened for Alaska’s general election on Monday morning, and as of Wednesday morning, 17,560 Alaskans had already cast their votes. That includes almost 11,000 people who have voted at early voting sites in the Railbelt, Juneau and Nome, as well as more than 6,000 who had voted absentee by mail, fax or […]
This midterm election, Alaskan voters will decide whether to change state voter qualification language related to the citizenship requirement to vote. Only U.S. citizens are eligible to vote in national and state elections. Ballot Measure 3, which appears on the ballot as 25USCV, would not change any requirements to vote, but proposes adding the word […]
On October 12, Golden Valley Electric Association asked its cooperative members to conserve electricity and prepare for possible controlled power outages. Scheduled maintenance, compounded by an unexpected shutdown of a unit at its North Pole Power Plant, had left the utility running all remaining available generation with very little reserve. Coming just before winter, after […]
A year after a Pacific storm largely destroyed villages in Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta and prompted the biggest air evacuation in state history, people in the region are bracing for repeat occurrences. Among them is Johnny Andrew Jr. of Kwigillingok, a Yup’ik village of about 400 people, most of whom were evacuated when the storm hit. […]
A left-leaning dark money organization and a GOP fund were among the groups behind the last-minute blitz of cash into Alaska’s U.S. Senate primary in August, when super PACs flooded the state with ads for fringe candidates on both the left and right, according to new filings with federal campaign finance regulators. The ads were […]
An Alaska Superior Court judge said last week that the Alaska Division of Elections may have violated the Alaska Constitution’s right to privacy when it handed an uncensored version of the state’s voter list to the U.S. Department of Justice last year. On Friday, Judge Adolf Zeman turned down the division’s request to dismiss a […]
A landslide north of Ketchikan on Thursday ‘catastrophically’ disabled the Ketchikan Public Utilities electrical substation at Ward Cove, prompting local utility crews to reroute power to customers on Ketchikan's north end via two other...
What happens when an experimental industry tears up vast swaths of the seabed and everything that lives on it? What happens when it dumps everything back into the water except a few minerals that are immediately taken out of our state? What happens when we don’t know what technology will be used, when there’s scarce […]
Early in-person voting opened Monday across the state, and in addition to high-stakes races for governor and U.S. Congress voters also have a chance to weigh in on whether or not to allow 21 judges to remain on the bench. Under the Alaska Constitution, judges are up for retention in elections that take place on […]
The Prince William Sound town of Whittier is sometimes called the “strangest town in Alaska” because nearly all of its roughly 250 residents dwell in a single high-rise building. Now it has another claim to fame: It is designated by the National Park Service as one of the nation’s American World War II Heritage Cities. […]
A small energy company that was assessed a hefty fine in July for what regulators said was five months of illegal natural gas flaring on the North Slope was cited again for another four months of gas flaring. The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, in an order issued Friday, assessed a $195,214 fine against […]
A suspicious envelope addressed to the Alaska Division of Elections in Juneau was intercepted by a hazardous materials response team and turned over to the FBI on Saturday, in what is believed to be part of a large number of mailings to congressional and election officials nationwide, according to Capital City Fire/Rescue Chief Tom Hatley. […]