Sunday, Oct. 6, is the deadline to register as an Alaska voter for the November general election. Elections offices will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for in-person registration, and online registration is available. Voters can check their registration status online.
Opponents of Juneau's 'Ship-free Saturdays' ballot measure, including Disney, spent more than $1 million to defeat the initiative.
Election Day, Nov. 5, is approaching fast. Here are some key dates, deadlines and how-tos on registering, voting and tracking results.
Email us at [email protected] with “The View From Here” in the subject line. Make sure to include your name, community of residence, age and occupation. (Sorry, no anonymous submissions.) And send us a selfie too! Or, if you prefer, type your response in the box below.
Elections Tuesday in four census areas of Alaska will be under federal scrutiny, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
Major Alaska resource projects, and the land they could be built on, may be at stake in the presidential election. They include drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and elsewhere in Alaska,
Two potential Democratic candidates ranked in the top five contenders in a new poll of Alaska's 2026 gubernatorial race.
When longtime Republican Sen. Click Bishop abruptly announced in May that he would not run for re-election, it set off a scramble. With days to go before the filing deadline, four candidates hurriedly signed up to run for Bishop’s former seat in the Interior.
The event is normally a key part of statewide political campaigns but was squeezed out by other priorities, a top organizer said.
Candidates in this year’s race already had a forum penciled into their calendars, but no invitations had been sent
For the third time, the Alaska House in the Bering Strait region is a showdown between a seasoned lawmaker from the hub community of Nome who has represented the district for 15 years and a challenger from the smaller village of Shishmaref who nearly beat the incumbent in the past two elections.