Politics

The Alaska Public Offices Commission could take up the matters at its Jan. 16 meeting.

Commissioner Deena Bishop said districts should instead add in-person instructional hours to make up for snow days.

Republican candidate Steve Menard wants another look at the tabulation process that saw him lose by a razor-thin margin.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy granted clemency to five people convicted of long-ago drug- and alcohol-related crimes.

Murkowski, a Republican, has largely been silent on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. but expressed concerns about him in connection to vaccine programs.

The state elections director said around 50,000 ballots had been counted again by Wednesday afternoon. Attorneys were on hand to watch the adjudication process.

Peltola said she will “always work for Alaska and Alaska’s interests.”

The minority is expected to oppose policy priorities sought by Senate majority leaders, including public pension reform.

State prosecutors will decide whether to retry the case, a spokesperson for the Alaska Department of Law said.

The recount of 340,981 ballots is set to be done by up to six high-speed Dominion voting machines, state election officials said.

Alaska geographer Mike Sfraga hasn’t announced his resignation. But it’s standard for politically appointed ambassadors to leave their posts during a presidential transition.

Twelve jurors will now decide whether the former Anchorage lawmaker is guilty of 12 counts of election misconduct, including five felonies.

The newly aligned Alaska House and Senate could increase the chances of more of their priority legislation becoming law.

In a radio interview, Dunleavy said he wasn’t taking a job in the Trump administration and would instead finish out his second term as governor.

Ballot Measure 2 — which would have repealed the state’s system of ranked choice voting and open primaries — failed by 0.2%, or 664 votes. The Alaska GOP and state’s lieutenant governor want a review of the result.

A close look at the 340,510 ballots counted reveals new information on the way Alaskans cast their ballots.

State Rep. David Eastman is suing Gov. Mike Dunleavy over the adoption of a bill related to multiple subject areas.

Twenty-one out of 40 state House seats are set to filled by women.

Anchorage Democratic Rep. Cliff Groh is trailing by 23 votes to Republican challenger David Nelson after the latest ballot count.

Democratic incumbent Rep. Mary Peltola trailed Republican challenger Nick Begich III after a tabulation of ranked choice results.

The ballot measure to repeal ranked choice voting and open primaries was on track to fail by 664 votes.

Starting at 5 p.m. Wednesday, wwatch the vote count from the Alaska Division of Elections headquarters in Juneau via KTOO 360TV and Gavel Alaska.

LeDoux’s two associates have pleaded guilty and are set to testify against her in the long-delayed election misconduct trial.