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Officials with the University of Alaska report more than $86 million in federal grants that were frozen or delayed by the Trump administration have been restored. The update was provided to the University of Alaska Board of Regents at their quarterly board meeting on Friday by Shelby Beck, assistant director of…
Federal officials on Monday announced $10 billion in awards across all 50 states in the second year of the Rural Health Transformation Fund, grants created by Congress to bolster rural health in response to concerns about Medicaid cuts. Texas received the largest grant for the 2027 fiscal year — almost $282 million —…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday his mass deportation campaign, which helped propel his return to the Oval Office, had gone too far and potentially led to Republicans losing the U.S. House and Senate in the midterm elections. “I think it might be too tough, yeah,” Trump said…
The U.S. Department of Justice is dismissing a lawsuit that tried to force California to set aside the ballots of suspected noncitizen voters, marking the formal end of the Trump administration’s most aggressive effort to control vote counting in the lead-up to the midterm elections. The Justice Department filed a…
Alaska voters in the Third Judicial District opted to reject two state judges standing for retention in the midterm election by wide margins in initial results on Tuesday. The vote comes after the non-partisan Alaska Judicial Council — charged with vetting and nominating judges, as well as conducting performance…
The campaign of Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola sued the Alaska Division of Elections on Friday in an attempt to make public the names of Alaskans whose absentee ballots have been rejected by the division. The suit was filed Friday in Anchorage Superior Court by Alaskans For Mary, and it named the…
A rare viral disease has emerged in an outbreak in Alaska’s largest city that appears to be expanding, state health officials report. There are now four new cases in Anchorage of mpox, a viral disease formerly called monkeypox that is spread through close contact and can be fatal. None of the patients reported…
Veterans have been in the spotlight as Americans across the country have celebrated our nation’s 250th birthday. And rightly so — the rights and freedoms that we enjoy are secured by the courage and sacrifice of our veterans. But while veterans took an oath to defend our rights, their own rights sometimes go…
In a court filing Thursday, officials with the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority said their plans to explore for oil in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge are on hold until at least mid-January as they wait for permission from the federal government. The refuge, located to the…
WASHINGTON — Voters may have given Democrats control of Congress in the midterm elections, but Republicans will remain in charge of both chambers during the lame-duck session that spans November and December. The relatively brief five-week schedule, which begins Monday, gives GOP leaders a chance to wrap up unfinished…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to establish the Oval Office and White House Cabinet Room as a national monument in order to prevent any major renovations to those spaces that are not approved by Congress. Trump, who tore down the East Wing of the White House to build a ballroom,
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Friday he will elevate Stephen Miller to White House chief of staff, the first shake-up of his administration officials since Democrats trounced Republicans in the midterms. Former Chief of Staff Susie Wiles will move to the “Trump Political Operation,” the president…
Federal regulators acted improperly when they granted a permit in 2024 for a controversial gold mining project near Nome, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason, in a Nov. 2 ruling, said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers violated both the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean…
One day after the Alaska Senate’s bipartisan coalition announced key leadership positions, the incoming majority coalition in the Alaska House announced its leadership including that Anchorage independent Calvin Schrage will be the new House speaker. The new House majority coalition of the 35th Alaska State…
WASHINGTON — As the monumental midterm victories set in, Democrats began to talk strategy Wednesday on how to deliver what voters want: lower prices, attainable health care and an end to a stagnant and expensive conflict in the Middle East. Starting in January, the party will control both chambers of Congress, giving…
WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders in Congress have just a couple months to decide how they want to balance investigations into President Donald Trump and his administration with securing his signature on major bills to address the cost of living, a top concern for voters. While Democrats gained control of the House and…
Anchorage Republican Cathy Giessel will be the next Alaska Senate President for the upcoming 35th Alaska State Legislature, according to an announcement from a bipartisan coalition of senators on Wednesday. Giessel showed a comfortable lead with 61% of the vote in her bid for re-election, as of Wednesday afternoon…
The Republican trio served together in Congress for more than two decades, and while the Anchorage port is named for the late Rep. Don Young and the Anchorage airport is named for the late Sen. Ted Stevens, their congressional colleague, Sen. Frank Murkowski, is more at home in Southeast. The Wrangell borough assembly…
Partial election results Wednesday afternoon show Alaska voters overwhelmingly approving Ballot Measure 3, which would add a new state law prohibiting noncitizens from voting in Alaska. A different Alaska law already prohibits noncitizen voting, as does federal law. When enacted, Ballot Measure 3 will not change…
Incumbents Sen. Cathy Tilton, R-Wasilla, and Rep. Kevin McCabe, R-Big Lake, led in first-choice election results Tuesday night, but preliminary results from ranked choice runoffs show them trailing challengers in their hotly contested Matanuska-Susitna Borough legislative races. Rep. Elexie Moore, R-Wasilla, trailed…
This article is developing and may be updated. If Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan wins re-election, Alaska’s ranked choice runoff system may deserve part of the credit. Early Wednesday morning results published by the Alaska Division of Elections show Democratic challenger Mary Peltola leading Sullivan by 626…
WASHINGTON — Winners of more than a dozen congressional and gubernatorial races have broken longstanding barriers of race, gender and sexuality. The results set records for the most Black governors and most women governors, and the first Black woman governor, Georgia’s Keisha Lance Bottoms. Democrats, who flipped the…
WASHINGTON — Voting ended Tuesday in this year’s midterm elections, leaving officials and volunteers counting tens of millions of ballots to determine which U.S. House and Senate candidates will take the oath of office in January. The post-election process includes numerous steps and varying deadlines for when ballots…
The “blue wave” that marked national results during Election Day appears to have washed into the Alaska House of Representatives as well. According to preliminary election results updated early Wednesday morning, independent and Democratic lawmakers are leading in 23 of the House’s 40 seats. Independents and Democrats…
Voters across the country administered a sharp reprimand to President Donald Trump and Republicans who hold majorities in Congress, with Democrats gaining comfortable majorities in the Senate and the House. Several U.S. Senate and House races remained uncalled by The Associated Press as Election Day ended on the East…
U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, in a tough fight to keep his seat, took time after casting his vote at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage on Tuesday to blast his Democratic opponent. “We are witnessing the biggest election cheating scandal in the history of the state of Alaska, one of the, maybe one of the biggest
This article was last updated at 3 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4. A ballot measure seeking to repeal Alaska’s open-primary and ranked-choice election system is trailing in early vote counting, according to preliminary results posted Tuesday evening by the Alaska Division of Elections. With 393 of 400 precincts reporting…
This article was last updated at 2:55 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4. Republican incumbent Rep. Nick Begich III took a significant lead in early vote-counting for Alaska’s lone U.S. House seat, and stood just barely short of the threshold needed to avoid a ranked choice runoff. Speaking to supporters Tuesday night, Begich…
This article was last updated at 2:50 a.m. Wednesday. Alaska is on course to have its first Democratic governor since Tony Knowles left office almost a quarter-century ago. According to incomplete, preliminary results published Tuesday night by the Alaska Division of Elections, Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins had 49% of the…
This article was last updated Nov. 4 at 2:55 a.m. Alaska’s closely watched U.S. Senate race remained too close to call early Wednesday morning as Democratic challenger Mary Peltola led incumbent Republican Dan Sullivan by only a few hundred votes with thousands more remaining to be counted. The result of the race…
WASHINGTON — In a stunning upset, Democrats ousted Republicans and flipped control of the U.S. Senate Tuesday night, effectively establishing a barricade for President Donald Trump’s agenda for the last two years of his term. Democrats will now have the power to block many of Trump’s nominees, both executive and…
The U.S. Department of Justice said federal election monitors will be deployed to Anchorage and the Dillingham and Kusilvak census areas on Election Day, according to an agency announcement on Tuesday morning. The DOJ monitoring initiative, announced last week, is larger this year than previous years, with…
America voted. After the Trump administration pressured election officials, after concerns that armed federal agents would deploy to the polls, after fears U.S. Department of Justice election monitors would intimidate voters — ballots were cast by the millions Tuesday, mostly without incident. Across the United…
Alaska elections officials told a state Superior court judge on Sunday that 13 of the 18 rural early and absentee-in-person voting locations that were flagged in lawsuits filed late last week for failing to open as scheduled would be open on Monday — one day before Election Day. The remaining five communities were not…
Alaska’s U.S. Senate race has drawn more money to campaigns from employees of AI companies than any other 2026 Senate race, an analysis of Federal Election Commission records shows. The actual numbers of donors are small, but at least 19 employees contributed approximately $119,000 to the campaigns of Republican Sen…
The 1910s were a momentous period in Alaska history, marked by major expansions in education, self-governance, and infrastructure development, including the creation of what is now the University of Alaska system, the Alaska Legislature and the Alaska Railroad. They also show that tumultuous elections are nothing new…
WASHINGTON — Tens of millions of Americans have already cast a ballot in the 2026 midterm elections that will determine control of Congress and shape President Donald Trump’s remaining policy agenda. As of Monday, more than 57 million Americans had cast a vote, according to the University of Florida’s Election Lab…
The Alaska Division of Elections expects to report the first results from the state’s general election between 8:45 p.m. and 9 p.m. Tuesday night, with updates through the early morning hours Wednesday. The state’s closest races may not have an unofficial winner for more than two weeks. Historically, between 75-90% of…
On Tuesday, Alaska could elect its first Democratic governor since 2002, roll back the clock on the way it conducts elections, help decide control of the U.S. House and Senate for the final two years of President Donald Trump’s second term and possibly elect the first Indigenous woman to the Senate. Here’s what to…
The average price of a barrel of Alaska North Slope crude oil in October was $122.21, according to figures published Monday by the Alaska Department of Revenue. That figure is the fifth-highest nominal average on record, according to the department’s regular tracking, and foretells millions of dollars in extra revenue…
I have fished out of Sitka, Alaska, for more than 40 years. I know the challenge of running a business where every cost increase is a risk to my bottom line. This past summer, the rapidly escalating cost of fuel added stress to an increasingly unpredictable business. For a fisherman, fuel is not optional. It
American democracy faces one of its biggest stress tests of the modern era, as President Donald Trump’s sprawling campaign for power over elections encounters a firewall of judges, state election workers and voting rights leaders heading into Election Day. A cascade of courtroom losses over the weekend dealt a major…
WASHINGTON — When the polls close Tuesday night, the 2026 U.S. election will go down as one of history’s most expensive and extraordinarily ugly midterms — galvanizing record-breaking early voter turnout among a deeply divided electorate. Voters on Saturday crossed the high-water mark of 52.7 million early votes cast…
The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to require California to set aside the ballots of suspected noncitizen voters in a last-ditch appeal by the Trump administration to exert control over the state’s vote counting. The request came on the eve of Election Day and as more than 5 million…
As the Trump administration waged a public legal fight with California over the ballots of suspected noncitizen voters in mid-October, behind the scenes a federal grand jury in Santa Ana issued a series of subpoenas to election officials in Los Angeles County at federal prosecutors’ urging. The subpoenas demanded a…
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Trump administration that sought to block the state of Alaska from declaring a winner in the state’s U.S. Senate election. In a 20-page order issued Sunday morning, U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason said the federal government failed to explain how it has the…
In the Alaska House district with chronic low voter turnout and high resident turnover, how do legislative candidates connect with voters? Democrat Cliff Groh and Republican Dan Sager are trying to answer that question in the race to represent House District 18. The vast majority of the territory in the district spans…
For a minute Monday, in the small Bristol Bay village of Iliamna, it looked like U.S. House candidate Bill Hill might not get out of the local graveyard. Hill, the independent running for Alaska’s sole House seat, had stopped to pay respects to a relative who’d recently been buried. Afterward, he jumped in the car,
It was another financial institution’s commercial that motivated me to create something different. Two busy white, apparently nondisabled, suburban parents were standing on their carefully manicured lawn talking about how they needed to go to the bank to plan for the future of their adult son with Down syndrome. They…
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 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…
WASHINGTON — As of early Friday, more than 46 million Americans had cast ballots ahead of Election Day, eclipsing the early voting turnout of the 2022 midterms, according to the University of Florida’s Election Lab. In the 2022 midterm elections, 45.9 million Americans voted early, according to the UF Election Lab…
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
The Trump administration cut naturalization sharply over the past year, leading to accusations it’s holding back hundreds of thousands of people who might have voted in the midterms. It’s hard to say how those people might have voted had they become U.S. citizens. Naturalized citizens voted Democratic for president by…
As concerns rise about the potential for federal influence over the results of next week’s midterm elections, many voting experts and advocates remain confident that the nation’s highly localized systems of administering and counting votes will persevere. Facing sinking approval ratings over high prices, the White…
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…
The Trump administration’s sweeping efforts to combat noncitizen voting and assert authority over elections came under intense scrutiny in courtrooms across the country on Thursday, as Democrats and voting rights groups alleged federal election interference. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ordered the U.S…
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…
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…
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…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s rally in Salina, Kansas, on Saturday is canceled, the Kansas Republican Party confirmed to States Newsroom. An appearance scheduled for Sunday in Dubuque, Iowa, was also canceled, the Republican National Committee said in a late Thursday press release. In-person rallies packed…
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…
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…
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…
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
Most of the nation returns to standard time Sunday morning, and Congress could decide as early as next month whether it will be the last time people have to change their clocks. President Donald Trump wants year-round daylight saving time. The U.S. House voted overwhelmingly in July for the change. Lots of Democrats…
Less than a week before Election Day, President Donald Trump’s unprecedented drive for power over elections has set the stage for a series of courtroom fights that could quickly lead to a high-stakes showdown at the U.S. Supreme Court over the limits of federal authority. Democrats and voting rights advocates have…
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…
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…
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…
WASHINGTON — Tens of millions of Americans have already made their way to the ballot box as early voting is underway in a midterm election that will determine control of the House and the Senate, possibly flipping one or both from Republicans to Democrats. As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 34 million people have…
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…
The U.S. Department of Justice plans to send election monitors to every state ahead of Election Day, expanding a long-standing practice that’s spurred concern this year among Democrats and voting rights advocates because of President Donald Trump’s push to influence elections. The Justice Department for decades has…
This article was updated at noon Tuesday with an order from Judge Sharon Gleason. 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Americans’ growing frustration over high prices has defined many political campaigns ahead of November’s midterm elections. Rising costs of healthcare, gas and groceries during President Donald Trump’s second term have put Republicans on defense, not only in Washington, but in statehouse and gubernatorial races across…
SPRINGDALE, Pa. — Residents in a small southwestern Pennsylvania town are facing the prospect of a 47-acre data center facility on their doorstep. “Right here behind this fence is where they want to put up the data center, and as you can see, there’s houses right across the street, roughly 100 feet,” said lifelong…
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…
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 three gubernatorial candidates who spoke Friday at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention found plenty of common ground on education, fisheries, public safety and other subjects. But some divides emerged in what was, for the most part, a friendly and collegial panel discussion between Democrat Jonathan…
At an October 6 public meeting about Alaska’s next transportation plan, a Chilkat Valley resident asked why she couldn’t find projects for the Haines area over the next four years, despite road problems there. A state transportation official acknowledged that funding is limited. Not every community can get what it…
When Patrice Jetter and Garry Wickham became engaged, the first decisions were of small, giddy consequence: where to hold the ceremony, whom to invite, what to wear. But soon enough, a far weightier question eclipsed them all: whether they could afford to marry at all. They learned that, as people with disabilities…
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
The percentage of working-age adults without health insurance has increased in the past two years, largely because many people can no longer afford Obamacare coverage after Congress allowed federal subsidies to expire at the end of last year. The uninsured rate for adults ages 19-64 rose to 11.2% this year, up from…
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…
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. President Donald Trump told reporters on Friday in Florida that he ordered the…
A record number of women are running for state legislative seats this November, more than two-thirds of whom are Democrats. Across the 46 states with legislative seats on the ballot, a total of 3,824 women are running — up from 2022’s previous record of 3,621 women candidates, according to the Center for American…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…