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Several events are scheduled to be held today around Fairbanks and elsewhere in the Interior to commemorate Veterans Day. // Democrat Mary Peltola increased her lead over Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan again Tuesday. She now leads Sullivan by nearly 2 percentage points. // A group of state legislators charting the future of Alaska public school funding seeks study of what is an "adequate education." // University of Alaska officials say more than $86 million in federal grants that were frozen by the Trump administration have been restored. // Natural gas is in short supply in Southcentral Alaska — and so are solutions. // Not far from the town of Nenana, on a ridge overlooking the Tanana River, are what's believed to be the ancient remains of the oldest known dwelling in the western hemisphere. -
Democrat Mary Peltola increased her lead over Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan Monday, when the state Division of Elections updated its vote count. // There's growing optimism among advocates around the high number of Indigenous voters who went to the polls last week. // The Denali Borough Assembly on Wednesday will consider certifying the results of last week’s general election. // An outbreak of a rare viral disease called m-pox has emerged in Anchorage that appears to be expanding. // Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority officials say their plans to explore for oil in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge are on hold. // The average price of a barrel of Alaska North Slope crude oil in October was more than $122. // A Russian company secretly funded a project to export natural gas from Alaska -- but not through a gas pipeline; instead, with tankers that would ship it directly from the North Slope to markets in Asia.
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It’ll be at least a week before the most competitive races in Tuesday’s election come into focus. // Unofficial election results suggest a slim majority of Alaskans were inclined to keep ranked-choice voting.// As the Iran War pushes oil prices higher, the cost of staying warm is a growing concern for Alaskans who heat their homes with fuel oil. // A state energy regulatory agency OK'd deal that allows Enstar to buy 1.2 billion cubic feet of natural gas for its customers. //Alaska Airlines will launch direct flights from Anchorage to Tokyo next summer, and add nonstop routes to three more U.S. cities. -
News“Folks that have been here for decades plus are bailing,” one Fairbanksan said. -
Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan has a slight lead over Democrat Mary Peltola in Alaska’s tight U.S. Senate race, according to unofficial results from the Alaska Division of Elections. // Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins has a substantial lead in the race for governor. // Early election results show Alaskans opting to keep ranked choice voting, open primaries and campaign finance rules. // State House and Senate races around the Interior show Frank Tomaszewski handily winning the open District Q seat. // Voters showed up in droves on Tuesday in Delta Junction to cast ballots. And some grumbled about the tsunami of political advertisements they’ve had to endure for the past several months. -
Today is Election Day, Polls will be open 'til 8 tonight, and we'll get some preliminary results beginning around 9. // The head of Alaska’s largest union says the U.S. Justice Department is intimidating the state’s voters with its investigation of the U.S. Senate race. // Political observers disagree about whether ranked-choice voting helps of hinders spoiler candidates on election ballots. // A Yu’pik grandmother has traveled hundreds of miles by snowmachine and boat in remote parts of the state to remind rural Alaskans to vote.
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A U.S. District Judge dismissed a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit Sunday that sought to delay election results if Sen. Dan Sullivan loses Tuesday. // Federal officials announced Friday they're increasing law enforcement assets in Alaska to investigate the state’s U.S. Senate election. // FBI agents this weekend knocked on the doors of people in Petersburg, Sitka, and Juneau who donated to Dan J. Sullivan’s campaign as part of the Justice Department’s investigation into the U.S. Senate race. // Democrat Mary Peltola held a rally in her hometown of Bethel on Sunday, two days ahead of the election in which she hopes to unseat U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan.
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Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about Fairbanks' trend of more October rain. -
6:30/8:30Former Anchorage mayor and Republican candidate for Alaska governor Dave Bronson says his experience leading the state's largest city puts him ahead of his rivals.// The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new director visited Alaska this week to learn about the state's high tuberculosis rates. // The rising cost of crafting and delivering traditional Alaska Native garments to customers has made it hard for the artisans to make a profit. // Gov. Mike Dunleavy has ordered an investigation into an effort by the Mary Peltola campaign to recruit a same-name challenger to Sen. Dan Sullivan. // The New York Times reporter who broke the story on the same-name challenger says Peltola’s ex-campaign manager was a major source.
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The New York Times published a story Wednesday that revealed Democratic operatives secretly recruited a second candidate named Dan Sullivan to act as a spoiler in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race. // The Alaska Beacon reports that in the week leading up to Election Day, nearly 10% of the state's registered voters had turned out and voted early. // The National Weather Service predicts that some remnants of a typhoon will bring high winds and high-elevation snowfall into the eastern Interior on Friday. // In western Alaska, the remnants of Typhoon Champi are expected to move through the southern Bering Sea before reaching the Bristol Bay region early Saturday morning. -
The state of Alaska is asking a judge to dismiss a federal lawsuit that would block election results if U.S. Sen. Dan narrowly loses to Mary Peltola. // Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski made a surprise endorsement Tuesday in the Alaska governor’s race: Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins // A new organization is working to bring the practice of allowing people to die with medical assistance to Alaska. // Polling places in some rural Alaska communities have failed to fully open to voters, more than a week after early voting. // A lawsuit filed last week argues that a planned transfer of state land in the Mat-Su to Alaska's economic development agency is unconstitutional.
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NewsThe Federal Aviation Administration is closing the air traffic control tower in Fairbanks at night, and Iditarod organizers are honoring the pilots that help make the race possible.
