6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (300+ words) Anchorage Daily News Letter: Voting for what is best for Alaska and the nation During our 80 years in Alaska, we have seen many territorial and U.S. senators represent Alaska. Ernest Gruening, Ted Stevens and, lately, Lisa Murkowski have seemed to understand…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (202+ words) Anchorage Daily News Letter: This is the kind of person Alaska needs as governor My family and I had the opportunity to have JKT visit our home in Palmer some weeks ago. We gathered friends and interested neighbors to meet…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (231+ words) adn.com Letter: Trump’s treatment of Canada is an international embarrassment What Trump does is generally dangerous and harmful to American and international interests, but his animus toward Canada is truly outrageous. From day one of his second term,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (439+ words) Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom late Friday night reversed her 4-day-old decision to reject Treg Taylor’s candidacy for governor, reinstating him onto the November ballot. In a prepared statement issued after 10 p.m., Dahlstrom, a Republican who oversees Alaska’s elections, said she…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1193+ words) Nearly 167,000 Alaskans cast ballots in this year’s primary election, one of the highest turnouts for a primary in more than a decade. The ballots cast represented about 27.7% of the state’s roughly 602,000 registered voters. This year’s total is substantially higher than…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (664+ words) The 2026 Alaska State Fair heads into its final stretch this weekend in Palmer. The fair starts back up Thursday and runs through Monday. The fair has all of the old favorites — great food, vendors, rides, exhibits and more — but fairgoers…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (168+ words) The manufacturer, Compliant Technologies, describes the gloves as a “conductive distraction and de-escalation device.” Amnesty International reported that electric gloves made for law enforcement can be and have been used for torture. They are now marketed as humane. The grievousness…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1255+ words) JUNEAU — The field of legislative candidates for Alaska’s general election is set after several candidates dropped out or failed to receive enough votes to advance from the August primary. The state’s official primary results were certified Monday morning, and the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1746+ words) U.S. House candidate Bill Hill trails freshman incumbent Rep. Nick Begich by 12 points in this month’s open primary, and longtime Alaska political consultants say they believe that Hill has little chance of winning. But Hill, who’s running as an independent, says…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (695+ words) Alaskans disagree about plenty of things. That is nothing new. We are independent-minded people, and we don’t expect everyone in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, the Mat-Su or our rural communities to see every political issue the same way. But there is…...