“It takes a lot to swing someone over from being a Peltola voter to all of a sudden going, ‘Oh, OK, I’ll vote for Sullivan.’ So we’ll see,” - Ivan Moore with Alaska Survey Research, a political polling firm active in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race.
Mary Peltola listens to a question posed by moderator Michelle Egan at a candidate forum held by the Alaska Oil and Gas Association on Aug. 27, 2026. Next to Peltola is Sen. Dan Sullivan. Peltola, a Democrat and former U.S. House member, is challenging Sullivan. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
By James Brooks
Alaska observers say it is too early to say how reports of bad behavior by Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola might affect the state’s closely watched election, and some supporters suggested this week that she may be subject to a double standard because of her gender.
Side-by-side photos show the same chin tattoos on Tummassak, at left, an Alaska Native student who died while attending the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, and Mary Agugaq Avessuk, the great-great-grandmother of Indigenous researcher Nyché Andrew who realized the tattoo linked Tummassak to her own family. (Credit: Photos courtesy of Nyché Andrew and Presbyterian Historical Society)
By Charles Fox, ICT
While everyone else in the household was asleep, Nyché Andrew worked late into the night at the computer.
An Indigenous research specialist with the Alaska Native Heritage Center, she’d been assigned the task of finding the origins and descendants of the Alaska Native students still buried at the former site of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania.
A Wilson’s Snipe is seen in an undated photo published by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. (Larry Pace photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
By James Brooks
Incorrect information provided by a Google AI overview caused a Kodiak woman to hunt snipe illegally on Sept. 5, according to a citation filed this week at the Kodiak district court.
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