October 20 By Elliott Davis Jr. President Joe Biden is looking to stem a root cause of a recent uptick in illegal immigration, enacting a politically risky policy in order to blunt Republican attacks on the issue ahead of crucial midterm elections but drawing the…

October 19 By Susan Milligan President Joe Biden made a deal Tuesday with rank-and-file Democrats: Elect more Democrats to Congress, and he’ll sign a law codifying abortion rights on the January anniversary of the 1973 Roe v Wade decision the Supreme Court reversed in June….

October 18 By Alex DeMarban Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Monday continued to come under fire from his leading challengers for missing debates, including Monday’s lunchtime event organized by the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce. Dunleavy has attended two of the five debates he said he would…

October 17 By Susan Milligan An unpopular president. Domestic abuse and other scandals. A deeply unhappy electorate displeased with the direction the country is headed. All of those things would once have been defining factors in races for the House and Senate, almost ensuring a…

October 15 By Becky Bohrer Ben Stevens, a former Alaska Senate president and a son of the late U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, has died. He was 63. The Alaska State Troopers said they responded to a report Thursday evening of a hiker having a medical…

October 14 By Claire Hansen In nine televised hearings over the course of more than four months, the House committee investigating the events of Jan. 6, 2021, made public heaps of new information about the violent insurrection: hours of illuminating witness testimony, reams of documents…

October 13 By James Brooks Even before his truck was stolen, Anchorage Republican Sen. Roger Holland had been hearing from his constituents about crime. As he seeks re-election on Nov. 8, he’s made the topic a top issue, but so have his two challengers, Democratic…

October 13 By Elliott Davis Jr. The Treasury Department’s Office of the Inspector General is investigating whether Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis improperly used coronavirus relief funds to transport migrants to Massachusetts following a request from members of the latter state’s congressional delegation. The news comes…

October 12 By Iris Samuels Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy had a cash advantage going into the final month before the election thanks to large contributions from two loyal supporters allowed after a court invalidated Alaska’s campaign contribution limits and both lawmakers and state officials failed…

October 11 By Iris Samuels In Alaska’s U.S. House race, the two Republican candidates are urging their supporters to “rank the red” even as they continue to attack each other, in an effort to unseat newly elected Democrat U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola. At an Anchorage…

October 10 By Susan Milligan In the excruciatingly close races for Senate seats next month, a candidate stumble or knock-out punch in a debate could swing just enough voters to make the difference. In the three debates held last week for races in Wisconsin, North…

October 7 By Susan Milligan Ronald Reagan, the 1980s embodiment of ruthless budget-cutting or fiscal sanity – depending on which political party one was in – summed up the Republican view of government in a single, oft-quoted sentence. “I’ve always felt the nine most terrifying…