President Donald Trump has canceled weekend rallies in Iowa and Kansas, opting instead to support Republican candidates with telerallies that his party says could reach more voters in nearly two …
The U.S. Department of Justice has launched criminal and civil investigations into groups affiliated with the U.S. Senate campaign of Democratic candidate Mary Peltola, Alaska’s top federal prosecutor confirmed Friday during a news conference with reporters. Michael Heyman, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Alaska, said there has been “a significant surge of law […]
Alaska Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola opened her remarks to a packed crowd at a Juneau campaign stop Thursday night by denying she had any knowledge of an alleged Democratic effort to recruit spoiler candidates in the race for the U.S. Senate. “I just want to clear the air. I knew nothing about any […]
When I was in ninth grade, my parents sent me to counseling. The reasons were twofold. One was severe depression, the other standard teenaged snootiness about how unfairly I believed that the world was treating me. The depression was something I could only be offered tools for managing, but the snootiness was more easily resolved. […]
President Donald Trump has called for the prosecution of a Democratic Senate candidate whose campaign reportedly put a man with the same name as Alaska's Republican senator on that state's ballot. …
Voters in some of Alaska’s state House districts might feel a sense of déjà vu when they go to the polls this year. From the Arctic to South Anchorage, several races for House seats are rematches from 2024 and, in some cases, elections in earlier years. One of those rematches is a contest in the […]
In the last days before Election Day, the Alaska Democratic Party is making a request: Don’t vote for the Democratic candidate in the U.S. House race. Eric Hafner, the lone Democrat in the four-candidate House election, is in federal prison for threatening federal officials and isn’t expected to be released until 2036. Since July, the […]
Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola denies that she knew anything about an effort to put another candidate on the Alaska ballot with the same name as the Republican incumbent. Peltola told …
President Donald Trump is campaigning in South Carolina as he encourages Republicans to show up for Darline Graham in a critical Senate contest. Graham is trying to fend off a challenge from …
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 …
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 […]
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,...
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...
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 …
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 […]
In a tightly fought Alaska legislative race, voters in one of the state’s most rural districts will be choosing between familiar candidates in a contest unlikely to change the balance of power in the state House. The leading candidates are current Rep. Nellie Jimmie of Toksook Bay and the incumbent she beat two years ago, […]
President Donald Trump’s campaign to keep Republicans in control of Congress in the Nov. 3 midterms is returning to Ohio for the third time in a month. Also on Wednesday, former President Barack …
The New York Times is reporting that Democrat Mary Peltola's campaign was involved in efforts to recruit a man with the same name as Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan to run for Alaska's U.S. Senate …
President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for Alaska Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola to be criminally charged and drop out or be removed from the ballot. His comments followed the publication of a New York Times article revealing that her campaign worked with the national Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to recruit spoiler candidates that […]