A handful of Alaska legislative races in Southcentral are undecided nail-biters

And a legislative education funding task force seeks input on plans to boost schools

Alaska approves land lease for Arctic data center

A judge dismisses the Peltola campaign's push for rejected absentee voter names and the bones of Togo return

Peltola, JKT and Begich near victory in Alaska races

And state biologists expect 49.31 million sockeye salmon to return to Bristol Bay next year

Peltola extends lead over Sullivan in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race as ballot-counting continues

Plus the Alaska Supreme Court revives state’s opioid pharmacy lawsuit

New outbreak of mpox spreads in Alaska

And oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is paused until mid-January

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Incoming Alaska House majority coalition names House speaker, leadership positions

Plus a federal judge rules that feds erred in greenlighting controversial mine project near Nome

Ranked choice tabulations could shake up close races

Plus incoming bipartisan coalition of the Alaska Senate announces key leadership

Alaska US Senate race too close to call

While JKT looks poised to clinch the gubernatorial race and Begich leads Hill for U.S. House

Election Day!

What's at stake and when to expect midterm results

Federal judge rejects Trump administration attempt to pause Alaska’s US Senate election

Plus Mary Peltola denied any knowledge of a plan to recruit spoiler candidates to the U.S. Senate race at a Juneau rally

Spoiler candidates

Alaska’s U.S. House election includes a last-days push against a candidate in federal prison

Trump calls for Peltola to be criminally charged, exit U.S. Senate race

And Western Alaska voters asked to weigh familiar state House candidates with similar stances

Land transfers and last-minute endorsements

And Alaska fights back against Trump-ordered elections lawsuit

A quarter of the electorate

Alaska Federation of Natives convention urges voter participation

Candidates work the Alaska Federation of Natives convention

And the U.S. Department of Justice filed a preelection lawsuit against the Alaska Division of Elections

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Got gas?

North Slope may contain 96 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered natural gas, federal report shows

Western Alaska considers a stormy future

And voters will be asked whether to change the language in voter eligibility law

Voter privacy could be at risk, judge says

And 21 Alaska judges are on the ballot for retention in the midterm election

Whittier named an American World War II Heritage City

And a North Slope oil field operator hit with second fine for gas flaring

Early in-person voting begins for the 2026 general election

Plus Alaskans join the nationwide No Kings rally focused on early voting

Who pays when a remote Alaska village can no longer stay?

And at a Wasilla rally, Trump and Sullivan say Iran war is worth the cost

Taiwan nearing AK LNG investment

The nation is preparing to buy as much as 30% of the proposed Alaska natural gas pipeline’s production, its economic affairs ministry said Wednesday

Trump endorses Wilson

At a Wasilla rally, the president endorsed a gubernatorial candidate and boosted Congressional incumbents