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3 days ago · Disaster survivors want to rebuild safer, sustainable homes, but cost misperceptions interfere. BY Susan Ostermann and Abbie B. Liel - November 11, 2024. The defense of Alaska oil tax law is seriously misleading. BY Brad Keithley - November 5, 2024. Data centers, which require massive amounts of energy and few jobs, have downsides for Alaska.
Margins continue to tighten for Alaska ballot measure seeking to …
1 day ago · Alaska elections officials added more than 8,500 ballots to the statewide count Wednesday afternoon, but the new ballots didn’t change the leaders of any races.. More significantly, the Alaska Division of Elections reported almost 5,000 more completed absentee ballots than it did on Tuesday morning.
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3 days ago · BY: James Brooks - November 11, 2024. Alaska lawmakers expect bipartisan coalitions to control the state House and Senate when the Alaska Legislature convenes in January, but they don’t know who the state’s governor will be. Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s second term isn’t over until December 2026, but in a series of interviews, legislators say ...
Nick Begich nears U.S. House election victory as more Alaska …
3 days ago · Republican U.S. House candidate Nick Begich has almost clinched an electoral victory over Democratic incumbent Rep. Mary Peltola. On Tuesday night, the Alaska Division of Elections added more than 38,000 votes to the state’s electoral count, and Peltola failed to significantly close the gap between herself and Begich.
Final rural Alaska precinct reports Election Day results, but …
3 hours ago · Nine days after Election Day, all of Alaska’s 403 polling stations have reported results. On Thursday, the Alaska Division of Elections reported that a tally sheet from the village of Atqasuk, a village of about 280 people in the North Slope Borough, had reached state officials.. Statewide, an estimated 30,000-35,000 absentee, questioned and …
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Nov 1, 2024 · The defense of Alaska oil tax law is seriously misleading. BY: Brad Keithley - November 5, 2024. The recent defense of Senate Bill 21 offered in the Alaska Beacon by the four co-chairs of the 2014 “No on 1” campaign is seriously misleading. Ironically, in their claimed effort “to set the record straight and address falsehoods swirling ...
Strong sockeye salmon return expected next year in Alaska’s …
3 days ago · The world’s biggest sockeye salmon run will be larger than average next year, state biologists have forecasted. The Bristol Bay sockeye run is expected to total 51.21 million fish in 2025, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s preseason forecast, issued last week.. That is 38% more than the long-term average …
Alaska voters favor minimum wage hike, sick leave mandate, with …
Nov 6, 2024 · If approved by voters, the measure would phase in the minimum wage increase from the current rate of $11.73 an hour to $15 an hour in mid-2027. It would require employers to grant an hour of sick paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked, with a cap of 40 hours for small companies and 56 for larger companies. And it would forbid employers from ...
Alaska Republicans lose two seats in state House, increasing odds …
Nov 6, 2024 · The Alaska House of Representatives will have two fewer Republicans, according to preliminary election results published by the Alaska Division of Elections after polls closed on Election Day. As of 3 a.m. Wednesday, the House was poised to stand at 20 Republicans, 14 Democrats and six independents ...
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Nov 6, 2024 · BY: Claire Stremple - October 25, 2024. Republican Rep. Ben Carpenter, R-Nikiski, is not seeking reelection for a fourth term in the House. Instead, he is running against incumbent Sen. Jesse Bjorkman, R-Nikiski, for the Senate seat in the same region. In the primary, Bjorkman had a 4-percentage-point advantage over Carpenter, 44.3% to 40.3%.