With affordability top of mind this election, Alaska candidates for governor offered varying perspectives on how their administrations would support working families and cap the ongoing tide of outmigration from the state, if elected. Alaska has seen a steady exodus of people leaving the state. Last year, state demographers reported more people left than moved […]
A U.S. Senate seat in Alaska is worth the same as one from any other state when Democrats and Republicans try counting to 51, the number needed to control the chamber. All 100 senators get an equal vote, regardless of whether they represent states of far less than 1 million residents, such as Alaska and […]
One week before Election Day, turnout in Alaska’s general election is nearing 10%. As of 4:43 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, according to figures published by the Alaska Division of Elections, 58,168 people had cast early or absentee ballots for the Nov. 3 election. The number of early votes cast through Tuesday afternoon already exceeds the number […]
As the Alaska Department of Natural Resources is deliberating on a controversial no-cost state land transfer in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, legal questions remain around whether the transfer of public lands for private development qualifies as public or charitable use. The state could transfer 20,000 acres near Houston to its economic development agency, the Alaska Industrial […]
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President Donald Trump is heading back to Texas to support Republican Ken Paxton's U.S. Senate campaign against Democrat James Talarico. Trump will appear in Corpus Christi and Lubbock on Tuesday. …
Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski and her father, Republican former Sen. Frank Murkowski said Tuesday that they are endorsing the election of Democratic candidate for governor Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins. Kreiss-Tomkins and three Republicans — Dave Bronson, Treg Taylor, and Bernadette Wilson — are running to replace incumbent Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy, who is term-limited and cannot […]
Healing, joy and new connections filled a Ketchikan family’s journey in September to the Carlisle Barracks Post Cemetery in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where the family’s ancestor, Mabel Stack, died in 1904 as a young girl attending the Carlisle...
For the past eight years, Sarah Vance has been a reliable member of the Republican caucus in the Alaska House of Representatives, winning election four different times in a district covering the southern Kenai Peninsula. But in this August’s primary election, something unusual happened: An independent challenger, Brent Johnson of Clam Gulch, beat Vance by […]
Attorneys representing the state of Alaska have asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Justice that is seeking to halt the certification of the state’s ongoing U.S. Senate election. The lawsuit, ordered by President Donald Trump and filed last week, asks the U.S. District Court for the District of […]
From the opening to the closing of the Alaska Federation of Natives convention, speaker after speaker, information booth after information booth and placard after placard had the same message: a call for Alaska’s Indigenous people to vote. Michelle Sparck, leader of the Get Out the Native Vote, held up four fingers during her brief remarks […]
Attorney General Todd Blanche defended the Trump administration’s lawsuit to block certification of Alaska’s Senate results if Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan loses the race and argued he legal …
The Trump administration is asking Washington state to set aside any ballots received from more than 400 people it suspects registered to vote without U.S. citizenship. The Justice Department says …
One of the most prominent figures backing Sen. Dan Sullivan’s re-election campaign is speaking out against a Department of Justice lawsuit intended to aid him. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said on Friday that the DOJ should have never filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to pause certification of the ongoing U.S. Senate election if […]
Alaska U.S. Senate candidate Dan J. Sullivan is heading into the general election as an undeclared voter, a type of independent. According to records kept by the Alaska Division of Elections, Sullivan switched from a Republican to an undeclared party affiliation when he requested an absentee ballot for the August primary election. Sullivan’s status as […]
An official with the Anchorage Police Department said Monday that there is no evidence that Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola was deliberately targeted in a weekend car accident that injured her and members of her family. “There is nothing new to share and at this time, there are no indications that this was a […]
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. …
Instacart reports on Halloween trends in Alaska and around the country.
Southwest Alaska’s Senate district will see new representation in the Alaska State Legislature next year, after the retirement of the state’s longest-serving legislator, Lyman Hoffman. At a forum this week, four candidates offered different views on the district’s most pressing issues, from fisheries to energy and the rising cost of living in rural Alaska. Senate […]
Mary Peltola, a Democrat in a tight race that might determine control of the U.S. Senate, stood on stage at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention in Anchorage and threw some barbs at the candidate who was not there: incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan. Peltola, in a late-afternoon candidate forum on Friday, addressed the news shock […]