The Alaska Federation of Natives voted Saturday to endorse the reelection of Democratic U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola and to oppose the ballot measure to repeal the state’s open primaries and ranked choice voting.
As the 2024 election approaches, here's what to know about ballot tracking, vote-by-mail deadlines, and finding your polling site in Alaska.
With less than a month to go before the 2024 election, some Alaskans are already looking ahead to 2026. On Thursday, Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom approved a ballot measure that would reimpose financial limits on political candidates and donors.
How did incumbent U.S. House Democrat Mary Peltola and Republican challenger Nick Begich make their case across three debates in one week?
Political types say it's unlikely, but not impossible, for Alaska's three electoral college votes to be a factor in the presidential election.
Alaska House Speaker Cathy Tilton suggested on a talk radio show that Republican members of the House majority blocked an election bill because it would have increased the likelihood of Alaska’s Democratic congresswoman holding on to her seat by making it easier for predominantly Alaska Native residents of rural Alaska to vote.
The Alaska Division of Elections has not continued a ballot dropbox program operated in coordination with the Municipality of Anchorage during the last presidential election, elections officials confirmed Wednesday.
Nick Begich and Rep. Mary Peltola saw three debates in three days, spanning more than 1,000 miles on the campaign trail.
Peltola burnished her bipartisan bona fides during the debate, including by taking credit for President Joe Biden’s 2023 approval of an oil drilling project on federal lands known as Willow, a politically costly flip-flop for Biden, who famously pledged there would be no new drilling on federal lands in his 2020 campaign.
Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola continued to far outpace her Republican opponent Nick Begich III in campaign fundraising during August and September, according to federal filings posted Tuesday.
On a desolate slab of island tundra in western Alaska, a resident of Adak will again become the last American to cast an in-person ballot for president.