The U.S. Capitol on the evening of Sept. 30, 2025, just hours before a federal government shutdown. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)Voters across the country administered a sharp reprimand to President Donald Trump and Republicans who hold ma...
The stunning national victories by Democrats in the U.S. Senate races won’t eliminate the Trump claims of corruption about the contest in Alaska, but they guarantee that the future control of the Senate doesn’t rest on whether Trump and Sen. Dan Sull...
Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, talks to reporters after casting his vote at the Alaska Zoo on Tuesday. Next to him is his wife, Julie Fate Sullivan. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, in a tough fight to keep his seat, took ti...
An attendee of President Donald Trump's rally on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, in Wasilla, holds up a sign urging a yes vote on Ballot Measure 2. (James Brooks photo/Alaska Beacon)This article is developing and will be updated.A ballot measure seeking to r...
Rep. Nick Begich, R-Alaska, waves signs on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026 in Midtown Anchorage. (Photo by Loren Holmes/Alaska Beacon)This article is developing and will be updated.Republican incumbent Rep. Nick Begich III took a significant lead...
Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins speaks with a reporter before voting on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026 at the University of Alaska Anchorage. (Photo by Loren Holmes/Alaska Beacon)This article is developing and will be updated.Alaska is on course to have...
Democrat Mary Peltola waves to passing motorists on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026 in Midtown Anchorage. (Photo by Loren Holmes/Alaska Beacon)This article is developing and will be updated.Alaska is on course to keep its Republican incumbent Sen...
Michigan's 2026 race for U.S. Senate was one of the most watched in the nation. In this photo, voters wait in line outside the Department of Elections in Detroit on Nov. 3, 2026. (Photo by Janelle D. James/Michigan Advance)WASHINGTON — The fierce bat...
By Anna Lionas with reporting by Diana Haecker All polling locations are open in Nome, the Norton Sound and Bering Strait region this election day, until 8 p.m. In Nome there are nine poll workers helping people cast their vote in Old St. Joe’s. Fou...
A polling site opened at the Loussac Library in Anchorage on Election Day on Nov. 3, 2026. There was no evidence of federal monitors at the polling location, but officials with the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Anchorage was one of three...
Poll workers wait for voters at a polling place in a garage on Willett Road in Brentwood, Pennsylvania, on Nov. 3, 2026. (Photo by John Beale/Pennsylvania Capital-Star)America voted.After the Trump administration pressured election officials, after c...
Voters cast their ballots at a polling site in the school library of Tanaina Elementary School in Wasilla on primary Election Day on Aug. 18, 2026. (Photo by Corinne Smith/Alaska Beacon)Alaska elections officials told a state Superior court judge on...
Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, and former U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, D-Alaska, listen to a question at a candidate forum held Aug. 27, 2026, by the Alaska Oil and Gas Association. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)Alaska’s U.S. Senate race has drawn mo...
Are Soft Dinner Rolls just homemade versions of the ones in the bag? Kind of, YES! But they’re so much better, and they’re not THAT hard in the grand scheme of things. My soft dinner roll recipe is based on a recipe I found in my mom̵...
Historical front page.The 1910s were a momentous period in Alaska history, marked by major expansions in education, self-governance, and infrastructure development, including the creation of what is now the University of Alaska system, the Alaska Leg...
Early voting at Kearny Town Hall in Kearny, New Jersey, on Oct. 24, 2026. (Photo by Anne-Marie Caruso/New Jersey Monitor)WASHINGTON — Tens of millions of Americans have already cast a ballot in the 2026 midterm elections that will determine control o...
Alaska Division of Elections program manager Brian Jackson answers questions from reporters shortly after completing the state's ranked choice voting tabulation in 2024. (Photo by Andrew Kitchenman/Alaska Beacon)The Alaska Division of Elections expec...
Campaign signs crowd a slope on Sept. 23, 2026, at the intersection of Muldoon Road and Northern Lights Boulevard in Anchorage. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)On Tuesday, Alaska could elect its first Democratic governor since 2002, roll back th...
An advisory program and higher attendance reflect educator’s push for belonging
Fireweed blooms on either side of the trans-Alaska pipeline near mile post 86, Dalton Highway in 2006, two years after the 2004 Dall City fire. (Photo by Craig McCaa/BLM Alaska)The average price of a barrel of Alaska North Slope crude oil in October...