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With almost all Alaska primary election day ballots counted, only a few races remain in question

The gap between the fifth and sixth-place finishers in Alaska’s 17-way governor race closed to fewer than 300 votes on Thursday as the Alaska Division of Elections published more results from ...
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What you need to know

The Alaska Beacon staff, in a collaboration with Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Public Media and KTOO, asked every Alaska candidate for U.S. House, U.S. Senate, governor and legislature their positions ...
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Ruling overturns land trade in Alaska wildlife refuge, casts doubt on road plan

A federal judge has overturned the land exchange intended to enable the state to build a controversial road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, possibly halting plans for construction to ...
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Polls open at 7 a.m. on Alaska’s pick-one, top-four statewide primary election day

Over a month ago, Shelley Cotton cast the first vote in Alaska’s statewide primary election, downloading a blank ballot and sending it quickly by mail from Texas to Alaska. Since then, more than ...
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Alaska on course to approve new campaign donation limits in Ballot Measure 1

Early tallies from Tuesday’s statewide primary election showed overwhelming support for a ballot measure that will restrict the amount of money that political candidates can accept from groups and ...
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In Alaska’s U.S. Senate race, it’s Sullivan and Peltola in front, and House also shows no surprises

Early vote counting in Alaska’s statewide, top-four primary election showed no surprises in the state’s two federal races. For U.S. Senate, Republican incumbent Dan S. Sullivan and Democratic ...
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After Alaska’s ‘final four’ primary, a silent primary may decide who’s on the ballot in November

Candidates for governor are considering whether it’s worth continuing on to November, even if they’re among the top finishers ...
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Trump announces plans to fill Alaska’s third federal judge position, vacant for over two years

President Donald Trump announced plans to nominate Kyle Reardon, a federal magistrate judge and former prosecutor, to fill the last of three federal judge positions for the U.S. District Court for the ...
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Amid widespread opposition, Alaska governor’s gasline compromise bill appears dead on arrival

Neither House nor Senate expect to meet and take up the latest plan to cut taxes for the proposed trans-Alaska natural gas ...
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Alaska Republican candidate for governor appears to massively violate a donation limit

Candidates have a limit of $5,000 in late contributions to their own campaigns, but Treg Taylor has donated more than ...
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Alaska judge confirms legislative candidate for primary despite blank financial disclosure form

Ruling may allow future political candidates to temporarily hide their personal finances from voters in primary elections.
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All incumbents appear likely to advance in Alaska House and Senate primaries

Primary voters have not removed any of the Alaska Legislature’s incumbent lawmakers, according to preliminary, incomplete vote tallies published late Tuesday by the Alaska Division of Elections. Of ...