Iris Samuels

The Alaska Division of Elections tallied votes on Friday in the state’s August election, but results in the special U.S. House race won’t be final for days.

Kelley attributes some of his 3,450 votes to a campaign sign affixed to his car, which he drove around the block for hours at a Trump rally last month. Kelly Tshibaka says Buzz Kelley got votes meant for her.

Elections officials must count every ballot before tabulating ranked choice votes. That means the winner of the special U.S. House race — featuring Nick Begich III, Sarah Palin and Mary Peltola — won’t be known for at least two weeks.

Kim Kovol will serve as the first commissioner of the new Department of Family and Community Services, created this year through a split from the state’s health department.

A day before the voting deadline, a lower court judge had ruled the results of the state’s first all-mail election could not be certified until visually impaired voters were given a “full and fair” opportunity to cast their ballots.

Republican candidate Josh Revak earned an endorsement from Don Young’s widow Anne Garland Walton. With several of Young’s protégés in the race, that could be significant.

The number of candidates on the ballot is final. But a new election system and more candidates than ever seen in an Alaska primary have politicians, pundits and strategists still scratching their heads.

The race to replace Don Young in Alaska’s lone seat in the U.S. House is drawing candidates from across Alaska.

Alaska politicians and historians were quick to scoff at a call from a Russian parliament member to return Alaska and a former outpost in California to Russian hands amid Russia’s war in Ukraine.

The bill would limit transgender kids to participating in school sports according to their gender assigned at birth, but the Alaska House is poised to block it.

Big Lake Rep. Kevin McCabe is proposing retaliatory taxes on fish and oil exported from Alaska to Washington state after lawmakers there unveiled a plan to levy a 6-cent-per-gallon tax on fuel refined in Washington and exported to neighboring states.

During a basketball game between the Ketchikan Kings and the Metlakatla Chiefs, the Ketchikan pep squad dressed in cowboy hats and boots. To players and parents from Alaska’s only Native American reserve, the outfits were a symbol of a brutal past.

The state ombudsman found that the only state-run psychiatric facility in Alaska has failed to meet federal requirements for patient treatment and has created a hostile and discriminatory work environment.

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