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Elections Tuesday in four census areas of Alaska will be under federal scrutiny, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

Major Alaska resource projects, and the land they could be built on, may be at stake in the presidential election. They include drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and elsewhere in Alaska,

Two potential Democratic candidates ranked in the top five contenders in a new poll of Alaska's 2026 gubernatorial race.

When longtime Republican Sen. Click Bishop abruptly announced in May that he would not run for re-election, it set off a scramble. With days to go before the filing deadline, four candidates hurriedly signed up to run for Bishop’s former seat in the Interior.

The event is normally a key part of statewide political campaigns but was squeezed out by other priorities, a top organizer said.

Candidates in this year’s race already had a forum penciled into their calendars, but no invitations had been sent

For the third time, the Alaska House in the Bering Strait region is a showdown between a seasoned lawmaker from the hub community of Nome who has represented the district for 15 years and a challenger from the smaller village of Shishmaref who nearly beat the incumbent in the past two elections.

Alaska’s three members of Congress joined a majority of the House and Senate in voting to approve a budgetary resolution that averts a government shutdown until at least December. Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola,