Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins says being the first Democrat elected governor in Alaska in nearly 30 years holds special meaning for him. The former state lawmaker also says he is proud of the support he …
The coalition majority in the 20-person Alaska Senate will be a bare-minimum 11 people after the departure of three Republican lawmakers. On Thursday, Sen. Jesse Bjorkman, R-Nikiski and a former member of the majority, said he will be minority leader of a newly expanded nine-person, all-Republican Senate minority. Sen. Robert Yundt, R-Wasilla, will be the […]
The Federal Aviation Administration's decision to ground all flights nationwide Friday has thrown the sports world into chaos. NBA, NHL and college teams are stranded as they try to reach their …
Alaska voters have rejected a ballot measure seeking to repeal the state’s unique system of open primaries and ranked choice voting in general elections. Voters during the Nov. 3 election were …
Alaska voters have elected a Democrat for governor for the first time since 1998. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, a former state lawmaker, defeated three Republicans. One of those, Bernadette Wilson, was …
Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, a Democrat, is declaring victory in Alaska’s gubernatorial election. In results posted Thursday night by the Alaska Division of Elections, Kreiss-Tomkins had more than 50% of the first-choice votes for governor in this year’s election, putting him above the threshold for a ranked choice runoff. CNN declared him the winner against three Republican […]
Environmental and Alaska Native groups have sued the Trump administration over a U.S. Department of the Interior decision to revive oil leases that were terminated in 2024 for lack of progress in bringing a long-languishing offshore Arctic prospect into production. The Center for Biological Diversity and Sovereign Iñupiat for a Living Arctic filed the lawsuit, […]
CHEROKEE, N.C. — Two months before the deadline to implement new Medicaid work requirements, states had yet to receive detailed guidance from federal health officials on how to exclude Native Americans from those rules, leading to a patchwork of eligibility checks that pose challenges for qualified enrollees trying to keep their health insurance. President Donald […]
Once upon a time—and really not so long ago—a mountain valley just east of Anchorage was the best place in Alaska, and likely the world, for people to watch and photograph large numbers of moose. Better even than Denali National Park, famous for its moose population. Dozens of cows and big-antlered bulls would gather in […]
In the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, candidates in two different Alaska House of Representatives elections are separated by five votes, according to preliminary, partial ranked choice runoff data published by the Alaska Division of Elections on Wednesday night. The winners of those two races are not expected to change the balance of power in the Alaska House, […]
A $25 million investment in a nuclear energy startup. Another $36 million for a controversial mining road. And up to $75 million for a new state-owned company promoting broadband. Those are among the multi-million-dollar decisions that GOP Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s appointees and state officials have made as part of a spending blitz by Alaska’s economic development […]
After a nearly 18-month investigation, a joint legislative task force on education funding seeks not only to boost state spending on schools but to change the way Alaska allocates funding to support its troubled K-12 education system. Among the key recommendations in the draft report released Monday is the finding that annual education spending should […]
Two new reports from the Brookings Institution reveal the Department of Government Efficiency made significant cuts to tribal communities. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act eliminated many funding …
The Alaska Division of Elections does not have to produce a report of rejected absentee voters in the midterm elections, a state court ruled Wednesday afternoon on a lawsuit filed by the campaign of Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola. The lawsuit was filed by the campaign group Alaskans for Mary against the division on […]
The House has turned aside a resolution to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his conduct in office and handling of the war against Iran, which some Republicans blame for sweeping election …
An Alaska judge has ruled that a request by Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola’s campaign for a list of absentee voters whose ballots have been rejected is “not reasonable." Superior …
The words “bipartisan,” “American,” “affordability” and “jobs” altogether insinuate taking care of our communities. But the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act does anything but that. BAAJA, under the pretext of a permitting reform package, undermines Tribal sovereignty and the rights of Alaska Native Corporations, weakens our environmental laws and limits the public’s ability to […]
More than 100 years after he ran the longest stretches in a heroic dogsled mission to bring lifesaving medicine to snowbound Nome, Togo has returned to Alaska. Or, to be more precise, Togo’s bones have returned. The skeleton of the famous dog that led legendary musher Leonhard Seppala’s team for 261 miles of the 674-mile […]
The Alaska Department of Natural Resources on Tuesday approved a 50-year land lease for a proposed large-scale computing data center on the North Slope near the Dalton Highway, the trans-Alaska oil pipeline and the proposed trans-Alaska natural gas pipeline. In its final approval, the department said the lease is in the best interests of the […]
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins and Republican U.S. House Rep. Nick Begich III came closer to clinching victory in Alaska’s general election as the Alaska Division of Elections added almost 25,000 ballots to the state tally on Tuesday night. With 245,470 first-choice ballots counted, Peltola now leads incumbent Republican […]