Alaska Legislature

Rep. Julie Coulombe, campaigning for re-election to represent a Lower Hillside district, is pointing to bills the Legislature passed, while challenger Walter Featherly says other measures are needed.

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School spending is a key issue in competitive legislative races after lawmakers in March sustained the governor’s veto of a major education funding boost.

Democrat Janice Park finished narrowly ahead of Republican Sen. James Kaufman in the primary, making the Lower Hillside state Senate race one to watch in November.

In the coastal district — Alaska’s farthest south — the candidates say they want to support education, fishing and energy, but differ on how.

Both candidates are Republicans, but they differ in their ideas about bipartisan caucuses, state employee retirement benefits and other issues.

Three Inupiat candidates are giving pitches about representing both the North Slope and Northwest Arctic, distinct regions within a single legislative district.

The open House seat features two first-time candidates, Lucy Bauer and Ky Holland.

The vice president of Avis Alaska said the rental car company is considering a court challenge over a long-running tax dispute.

Amazon was fined $6 million for 59,000 warehouse quota violations under a similar California law earlier in the year.

The law takes advantage of waivers to allow more Alaskans to access federal aid programs.

The measure, House Bill 238, was signed in a ceremony at the Lubavitch Jewish Center of Alaska, a campus in Anchorage that is home to an Orthodox Jewish congregation, a preschool and a museum devoted to Alaska’s Jewish history. It was also the site of recent antisemitic vandalism.

Eleven candidates for the Alaska Legislature withdrew from Nov. 5′s general election.

A national legislators’ group is pushing Congress to give states more time to spend money for homeless students, but advocates say it may be too late for an extension.

The departures mean a head-to-head race between nonpartisan candidate Ky Holland and Republican Lucy Bauer.

Lawmakers say “small tweaks” to policy can attract and keep more teachers in Alaska’s classrooms.

The race between incumbent Republican Sen. Kelly Merrick and challenger Jared Goecker, also a Republican, is set to serve as a referendum on bipartisanship.

Nick Moe is ending his campaign, paving the way for Democrat Carolyn Hall to represent a West Anchorage district in the Alaska House starting in January.

McKay became the latest in a series of Republicans dropping out of races with more than one GOP candidate.

The one-term Republican praised Alaska’s ranked choice voting system and decried the veto of a bill that would have permanently increased public education funding.

Lawmakers say current laws don’t protect the confidentiality of people who file complaints against legislators.

The contest for Interior Alaska’s House District 36 has more candidates than any other legislative race this year.

The Legislature passed several measures this year intended to expand renewable energy in Southcentral Alaska as the region faces a shortage of natural gas.