A new statewide survey commissioned by Americans for Prosperity-Alaska (AFP-Alaska) makes it clear that Alaskans oppose new taxes for costly state pension plan proposals or expanded spending on ...

Alaska Senate Bill 52 requires that all ballots, including absentee and early voting ballots, be counted by 11:59 p.m. on election day. This replaces previous rules that permitted counting to extend ...

In an effort to ensure timely ballot counting and reporting, State Sen. Shelley Hughes (R-Palmer) has introduced a bill that addresses long-standing challenges with delays in election results being ...

There was a short but interesting lesson on the effective use of political power over the weekend. When ICE sent two planeloads of illegal immigrants back to Colombia on Sunday, Gustavo Petro, the ...

There was a short but interesting lesson on the effective use of political power over the weekend. When ICE sent two planeloads of illegal immigrants back to Colombia on Sunday, Gustavo Petro, the ...

Facing rapidly declining enrollment, poor student test results and growing number of families who have opted to leave standard public schooling for homeschool, the Fairbanks School District is set to ...

Leaders of the Alaska Republican Party’s District 29 in the Mat-Su have had it with lawmakers who run as Republicans only to abandon the party and what it stands for once elected. GOP leaders in ...

Gov. Mike Dunleavy introduced legislation (HB 76, SB 82) on Jan. 31 to improve educational outcomes for Alaska’s chronically underperforming public school students. His plan focuses on funding, ...

That is an accurate and simple definition of the term. We sometimes confuse the term “anarchy” with the definition “total chaos,” but that is not how a died-in-the-wool anarchist thinks. To him, ...

Signs placed along the highway in support of hand-counted ballots for Kenai Borough elections. Kenai residents who want borough elections to be hand-counted have until 5 p.m. on Jan. 30 to turn in an ...

Kenai residents who want borough elections to be hand-counted have until 5 p.m. on Jan. 30 to turn in an additional 190 signatures for their ballot petition. Earlier this month, Duane Edelman, who has ...

Poker players sometimes bluff, pretending a weak hand is stronger than it is, to win the pot. That strategy works until someone recognizes their strategy and calls them on it. I bluffed and got called ...