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.

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.

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.

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.

The 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.

The Federal Aviation Administration says the closure is temporary and that planes can still land and take off. But low visibility conditions can make that more complicated.

Research rockets took off north of Fairbanks to study space dust and dying stars, and candidates for governor pitched their ideas for addressing Indigenous issues at the Alaska Native Federation convention.

One launch looked at a nebula left behind by a dying star. The other recreated the conditions that turn vapor into tiny grains of dust.