Top Stories

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Murkowski Digging in for Fight to Keep Seat

Ellen Lockyer, KSKA – Anchorage Senator Lisa Murkowski is positioning for a fight to keep her lead in this year’s Senate race.  The incumbent...

State Wins Rights to Issue Clean Water Act Wastewater Discharge Permits

Ellen Lockyer, KSKA – Anchorage The state of Alaska has won the right to issue cheap kamagra Clean Water Act wastewater discharge permits for...

Election Officials Keeping Eye Out For Voter Fraud

Lori Townsend, APRN – Anchorage As division of elections officials oversee the count of absentee, early and questioned ballots over the next several days,...

Absentee, Early Vote Counting Begins Today

Photo and Story by Dave Donaldson, APRN – Juneau The Division of Elections is counting the first round of absentee and early votes...

Judge Denies Request to Stop Write-In Ballot Count

Casey Kelly, KTOO – Juneau U.S. District Court Judge Ralph Beistline has denied a request by Joe Miller to immediately stop the count of...

Write-In Ballot Count Begins

Photo and Story by Dave Donaldson, APRN – Juneau Wednesday, the Division of Elections today began counting the write-in votes cast in last week’s...

Election Officials Continue Write-In Count

Lori Townsend, APRN – Anchorage Election officials today continued counting write-in ballots for the U.S. Senate race. The division hopes to finish more...

Only 828 Ballots Rejected in Write-In Count So Far

Dave Donaldson, APRN – Juneau The latest results from the Division of Elections this afternoon show Lisa Murkowski is now getting – without any...

State Challenges Miller’s Write-In Suit

Photo and Story by Ellen Lockyer, KSKA – Anchorage The thicket of litigation surrounding this year’s write in campaign just got a little thicker.   ...

Senate Race Separated By Just Over 1,000 Votes

Dave Donaldson, APRN – Juneau As vote-counting ended Monday, Lisa Murkowski is a little more than 1,000 votes ahead in her write-in campaign to...

Johansen’s Answers Haven’t Alleviated Concerns

Maria Dudzak, KRBD – Ketchikan Tuesday night, Ketchikan constituents wanted answers from their representative Republican Kyle Johansen about his reasons for stepping ...

Murkowski Maintains Lead Going Into Final Day

Dave Donaldson, APRN – Juneau Elections officials have counted all the ballots they have from the general election held two weeks ago and with...

McCaskill Taking Aim at 8(a) Contracts

Libby Casey, APRN – Washington DC Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill is taking aim at the special breaks given to Alaska Native Corporations seeking federal...

Murkowski Declares Victory

Dave Donaldson, APRN – Juneau Lisa Murkowski has stood up to Republican Party nominee Joe Miller to become the first person in 56 years...

Murkowski Declares Victory, Miller Seeking Preliminary Injunction

Ellen Lockyer, KSKA – Anchorage Lisa Murkowski trumped naysayers yesterday by claiming victory in her U.S. Senate race against Republican Party candidate Joe Miller. ...

New Parnell Administration Aiming to Grow Economy

Photo and Story by Lori Townsend, APRN – Anchorage Governor Sean Parnell spoke to the Resource Development Council in Anchorage Thursday morning. Marking his...

Senate Race Certification Put On Hold

Ellen Lockyer, KSKA – Anchorage The outcome of Alaska’s U.S. Senate race is in question again. Republican candidate Joe Miller filed a lawsuit in...

‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ to be Addressed During Lame Duck Session

Libby Casey, APRN – Washington DC Senator Lisa Murkowski is in the center of the debate over the military’s policy banning openly gay service-members,...

Freezing Rain Still Keeping Many Alaskans Inside

Dan Bross, KUAC – Fairbanks The icy weather system that’s shut down schools, government and other facilities from Anchorage to Fairbanks and beyond, continues...

Planned Parenthood Working to Overturn Parental Notice Law

Ellen Lockyer, KSKA – Anchorage Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest is suing the state in an effort to overturn the parental notice law,...