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The Alaska Supreme Court on Saturday upheld a lower court’s ruling that will keep Republican Tara Sweeney off the ballot for the August special election in Alaska’s U.S. House race.

Former Office of Equal Opportunity Director Heather MacAlpine was fired while investigating complaints about the city’s top librarian, Judy Eledge, who has gotten public support from the mayor and chief human resources officer.

The plaintiffs are Sunny Guerin, Vera Lincoln and Elizabeth Toovak.

Daniel Volland is an optometrist and the vice president of the South Addition Community Council. This is his first time running for elected office.

Judge Joshua Kindred said the federal closure was arbitrary and capricious and that the closure did not comply with national standards.

Federal law prevents some convicted domestic abusers from owning a gun, depending on their relationship to the victim. The new gun safety bill would expand that definition to include dating partners.

The elections division received 24 timely filed challenges to Republican state Rep. David Eastman’s candidacy.

In Anchorage, vaccines are available at Fairweather’s Tikahtnu Commons clinic and a pop-up clinic in Fairview every day for the rest of the month.

“We made the decision that this is not a candidate fight,” Sweeney campaign manager Karina Waller said in an interview.

Final preliminary results posted Tuesday night by the Alaska Division of Elections show 161,614 people voted in the special election for U.S. House, Alaska’s first statewide election by mail.