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Alaska’s U.S. Senate race is the most expensive in state history
Democrat Mary Peltola has raised more than $32 million, a record-breaking sum.
‘This is not right’: Murkowski slams high energy costs in AFN speech
Murkowski is one of just a few Republican senators to break with their party and vote with Democrats on measures to check the Trump administration’s ongoing war in Iran.
Europe’s intense summer heat may have led to about 50,000 deaths, report says
About 50,000 more people died in European cities between June and August than would have if temperatures had not been abnormally hot, researchers estimate.
PACs backing Bill Hill discourage votes for incarcerated Democrat in Alaska’s U.S. House race
The spending to elevate awareness of Hafner’s status as a federal inmate to boost Hill is part of a broader pattern in Alaska’s congressional races, where PACs have poured millions of dollars into campaigns involving fringe candidates.
Alaska Lt. Gov. incorrectly put disqualified candidate on the ballot, state judge rules
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…
Opinion: A $54 billion exercise in revisionist history
The defense of Alaska’s gas line celebration asks the public to disregard what Trump and the state’s leaders actually said.
Opinion: Alaska’s election system rewards the skills it takes to govern
The willingness to listen and negotiate matters long after the yard signs come down.
Anchorage School Board opposes plan to change how members are elected
Members had an emotional — and at times heated — discussion this week about the proposal to shift from at-large representation to district-based seats.
New geological estimate puts Alaska North Slope gas resources at 96 trillion cubic feet
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…
Cost of employer-sponsored health insurance plans rises again, nonpartisan survey finds
WASHINGTON — The price health insurance companies charge for employer-sponsored plans increased again this year, as did the deductible many people must pay before those plans begin covering most healthcare costs, according to a survey released Thursday by the nonpartisan health organization KFF. The cost of individual…
Thousands of Alaskans are voting before Election Day. Some ballots won’t be counted until after it.
This article was updated at 5:40 p.m. Thursday with new numbers. Early, in-person voting opened for Alaska’s general election on Monday morning, and as of 11:45 a.m. Thursday morning, 26,450 Alaskans had already cast their votes. That includes more than 17,000 people who have voted at early voting sites in the…
Analysis: Trump deportations near 1M, but few are criminals
The current Trump administration claims its mass deportation efforts have expelled nearly a million people through July of this year, but those include both voluntary returns and people turned around at the border, according to a new analysis by the former chief statistician for the Department of Homeland Security…
Alaskans to vote on language change in voter eligibility law in midterm election
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…
Commentary: Cook Inlet’s gas shortage has become Fairbanks’ diesel bill
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…
After successive damaging ex-typhoons, Western Alaska considers future storms
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…