“There’s going to be a lot of people that think there were nefarious things going on. We don’t think so,” - Gov. Mike Dunleavy, backing Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom’s decision to reinstate former attorney general Treg Taylor as a candidate for governor.
Audience members are packed into the Gerald C. WIlson Auditorium at Kodiak High School on the evening of Sept. 9, 2026, to listen to the four remaining gubernatorial candidates discuss seafood-related issues. Every election year, the Kodiak Chamber of Commerce holds debates that are focused solely on fisheries. Kodiak is one of the nation's main seafood portss, and fishing is a mainstay of its economy. (Photo by Brian Venua)
By Yereth Rosen
At a fisheries forum held Wednesday night in Kodiak, all four candidates remaining in Alaska’s gubernatorial race found plenty of common ground.
Former state Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, a Democrat, and the three Republicans, former Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson, former state Attorney General Treg Taylor and business owner and talk-show host Bernadette Wilson, described the seafood industry as a pillar of the state’s economy and fish as part of the state’s identity.
President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he arrives with his then-personal attorney Todd Blanche in court for opening statements in his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on April 22, 2024, in New York City. Trump was convicted of falsifying business records in the first of his criminal cases to go to trial. Since his election, he’s nominated Blanche to be attorney general of the United States. (Photo by Yuki Iwamura-Pool/Getty Images)
By James Brooks
During a lengthy, meandering series of remarks last week, President Donald Trump offered another hint that his administration may seek to disrupt Alaska’s U.S. Senate election.
Fairbanks political writer Dermot Cole first noted Trump’s remarks.
On Aug. 18, NBC News — relying on unnamed sources — reported that the U.S. Department of Justice had issued grand jury subpoenas as it sought to investigate the campaign of Republican candidate Dan J. Sullivan of Petersburg.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy, Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom and Stephen Cox, general counsel to Dunleavy, speak at a news conference on Sep. 7, 2026 defending the decision to re-certify Treg Taylor as a candidate for governor on the general election ballot, citing issues with multiple candidates’ financial disclosure reports and litigation risks if he were disqualified. (Photo by Wil Courtney)
Alaska Department of Law says it found dozens of potential gaps in candidates’ financial disclosures
By James Brooks and Corinne Smith
A decision that reversed Alaska Republican governor candidate Treg Taylor’s disqualification was motivated in part by a review that found 91 possible disclosure problems among 121 state-office candidates, Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom said Monday.
“My decision, I believe, was necessary for the integrity and the orderly administration of the election, and I believe this decision serves the public,” she told reporters during a news conference in Anchorage.
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