The director of the Alaska Division of Elections says that the recount of a narrowly defeated ballot measure will likely begin Wednesday. The division certified general election results Saturday. They showed that the ballot measure to repeal ranked choice voting and open primaries lost 49.

Voters passed Ballot Measure 1 by nearly 16 percentage points. The measure will increase the minimum wage in three steps over the next two and a half years, reaching $15 per hour in July 2027. It also mandates paid sick leave for all Alaska workers, and bars employers from requiring workers to attend meetings on political and religious issues.

The director of the Alaska Division of Elections says that the recount of a narrowly defeated ballot measure will likely begin Wednesday. The division certified general election results Saturday. They showed that the ballot measure to repeal ranked choice voting and open primaries lost 49.

Alaska’s top-four ranked-choice voting system survived by a whisker in the November election, but supporters may not want to pop the champagne corks just yet.

Anchorage Superior Court Judge Kevin Saxby found that there was a hung jury in the trial of former Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux.

Republican Nick Begich has won the state’s U.S. House race, defeating Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola. Begich, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, won the seat that Republican Rep.

The G.O.P. united behind Nick Begich III, the conservative son of a prominent liberal Alaska political family, to beat Representative Mary Peltola, a Democrat.

The Biden administration reversed course, freezing exploration for oil in ANWR, but President Joe Biden didn’t galvanize Congress to undo the program created in 2017. In fact, the Biden administration is now planning to hold an oil sale, the second mandated by the tax law, before Trump takes office Jan. 20.

Under the proposal, Anchorage would hold municipal elections every two years instead of every year. That means Assembly, School Board and mayoral terms, instead of lasting three years as they do now,

Former Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux's long-delayed election misconduct case ended Monday with a mistrial due to a deadlocked jury. State prosecutors could retry the case. Patty Sullivan, a spokeswoman for the Alaska Department of Law,

The judge presiding over the trial of former state Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux over alleged violations of state elections law declared a mistrial on Monday after the jury deadlocked. Anchorage Superior Court Judge Kevin Saxby found that there was a hung jury in the trial,

Twelve jurors are set to decide whether former state Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux is guilty of election misconduct after her long-awaited trial concluded Wednesday. LeDoux was accused by state prosecutors in 2020 of encouraging people who did not live in her district to vote for her in the 2014 and 2018 primary and general elections.